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Its been a week since the worst baseball game in Rangers history. It was gut-wrenching, soul-tormenting, and completely life draining and for the rest of my days on this Earth, I won't experience any sports moment that will compare in its devastation and emptiness. Having said that, some disturbing info has crept out of that dreaded game 6, which I am tryiing my best to understand:
The story behind Neftali Feliz not going back into the game in the bottom of the 10th inning with a 9-7 lead.
As down and depressed as he apparently was from his 9th inning appearance, the moment Josh cleared the fences with a shot that Roy Hobbs would envy, any closer worth his salt would have been jumping to go back out there and finish it right this time. The baseball gods, and according to JH , God himself, gave Feliz the chance of a lifetime. He didn't have to wait until next season, or even a possible game 7, he had his shot at redemption right then, right now. A chance to erase all the ugliness and bitter taste left in his mouth from a 9th inning where walks and poor defense killed his cause. A chance to get back on the mound, face 2 weak hitting lefties and a pinch hitting pitcher no less, not one of which would be able to catch up to his heat, and go out in style with a World Series championship win. But, according to Wash and many others in the dugout, he was spent, devastated, catatonic even, and speaking to and looking at no one.
Wash should have grabbed his face, slapped each side of it, given him the Derek Holland pep talk, told him to look at his teammate playing on one leg with offseason surgery looming that just gave you a 2 run lead, and told him to get his rear back out there and go win the World Series. Who wouldn't want an instantaneous shot at redemption after feeling you have blown the World Series for your team? Neftali Feliz I guess. The second Josh's rocket cleared the fence you would think he'd be clamoring to get back out there. His mood should have gone from despair to ecstacy that quick.
Instead, because our closer was in a mental coma, Wash turns to a 41 year old soft-tossing lefty...and the rest is history.
Feliz hadn't blown a save his entire postseason career. What are the odds he blows 2 in one game? It would not have happened. Of all the crazy things that happened that night, this one is the most bizarre to me.
We all crave moments of redemption in our own lives when things go awry because of something we did or did not do. Feliz had this chance. Nothing to save him for. He's your closer. He failed in the 9th, go succeed in the 10th. He was the Rangers best option in the 10th to close it out once again. I'll never understand why he wasn't in there. Never.
The story behind Neftali Feliz not going back into the game in the bottom of the 10th inning with a 9-7 lead.
As down and depressed as he apparently was from his 9th inning appearance, the moment Josh cleared the fences with a shot that Roy Hobbs would envy, any closer worth his salt would have been jumping to go back out there and finish it right this time. The baseball gods, and according to JH , God himself, gave Feliz the chance of a lifetime. He didn't have to wait until next season, or even a possible game 7, he had his shot at redemption right then, right now. A chance to erase all the ugliness and bitter taste left in his mouth from a 9th inning where walks and poor defense killed his cause. A chance to get back on the mound, face 2 weak hitting lefties and a pinch hitting pitcher no less, not one of which would be able to catch up to his heat, and go out in style with a World Series championship win. But, according to Wash and many others in the dugout, he was spent, devastated, catatonic even, and speaking to and looking at no one.
Wash should have grabbed his face, slapped each side of it, given him the Derek Holland pep talk, told him to look at his teammate playing on one leg with offseason surgery looming that just gave you a 2 run lead, and told him to get his rear back out there and go win the World Series. Who wouldn't want an instantaneous shot at redemption after feeling you have blown the World Series for your team? Neftali Feliz I guess. The second Josh's rocket cleared the fence you would think he'd be clamoring to get back out there. His mood should have gone from despair to ecstacy that quick.
Instead, because our closer was in a mental coma, Wash turns to a 41 year old soft-tossing lefty...and the rest is history.
Feliz hadn't blown a save his entire postseason career. What are the odds he blows 2 in one game? It would not have happened. Of all the crazy things that happened that night, this one is the most bizarre to me.
We all crave moments of redemption in our own lives when things go awry because of something we did or did not do. Feliz had this chance. Nothing to save him for. He's your closer. He failed in the 9th, go succeed in the 10th. He was the Rangers best option in the 10th to close it out once again. I'll never understand why he wasn't in there. Never.
