My wife (an occasional baseball fan, who came of age in the glory days of the ’90s Atlanta Braves) has long said the suicide squeeze is the most exciting play in the game. Tough to argue. Now, a walk-off suicide squeeze may be the most exciting play in sports. A walk-off suicide squeeze by a veteran pro playing in the twilight of his minor league career: magic. Hell, if poetry could be heart-racingly exciting, it would look like this.
Enter Corey Patterson. After seeing his team squander a run in the top of the ninth, Patterson laid down the first pitch he saw in the bottom of the inning to steal the win. Effortlessly dramatic.
For those of you scoring at home, Corey is currently batting .202 on a struggling Sounds team, but the magic average remains high.
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