There are October legends, and then there is October reality, and often, one does not resemble the other.
And then there is Joctober, which we can assure you is very, very real.
Only in baseball can a free-swinging, strikeout-happy free-spirited slugger who vacillates from full- to part-time duty depending on which kind of streak he’s on transform into a strangely clutch performer who regularly outslugs his regular season self.
And now that Joc Pederson has taken his postseason act from the Los Angeles Dodgers to the Atlanta Braves, he’s proven that his October prowess was not some product of the matchup-happy Dodgers’ army of analysts.