admit it. You didn’t even know that Pablo Sandowal was on a big league roster this year.
It’s OK. There are not many people other than Braves fans – and veteran fans, because his love for all things Panda is eternal and he will always know where he is – he knew that as an extra batting off the bench Made the Opening Day roster of Atlanta.
Sandowal showed on Thursday that his incredible temperament for his ability to get up in the dramatic, biggest moments has not left him yet.
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With the Braves hitter being shut down on Opening Day, right-handed Films ace Aaron Nola finished third in the 2018 NL Cy Young race and had 10.7 strikeouts per nine innings in 2019-20. And PP for 6 2/3 innings – pre-panda – was that vintage Nola.
He was the type of Nola who makes the Phillies fans feel unfamiliar in his gut, that it could ultimately be the team that returns to the playoffs for the first time since 2011. Nola worked efficiently, hitting five hits and six sixes. Seventh innings. But when he gave Christian Pachey a double, the Braves’ manager Brian Snitker hit Sandoval in a pinch.
And this is what happened. Bat associated with a 0–0 pitch to zero.
Sandoval seems to have been around forever, but he is only 34. He won three rings with San Francisco when he went on to “win the World Series title every other year” talk: 2010, 2012 and 2014.
In the 2012 World Series, he hit three home runs in Game 1 – the first two from Justin Verlander – and won the Giants Tigers after winning the series of MVP with an average batting average of .500. And in the 2014 World Series, he hit “only” after batting in the NLCS, with 12 hits in seven matches. 429.
He left the Giant to sign a five-year, $ 95 million free-agent contract with the Red Sox after the 2014 season, and was, by all measures, a stir. He hit just .245 with a 75 OPS + in 2015, then played just 35 games over the next two seasons before being released.
And it’s not like it’s the same thing, but it’s always fun to tell that Sandowal played two mop-up innings in his big league career – one in 2018 and one in 2019 – and he faced a minimum of six batters. .
Here’s hoping he sticks around for many more years just don’t expect to see him back in Boston.
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