Braves manager Brian Snitker has a game Tuesday night. Not the game he might have preferred — Game 1 of the World Series — but a game he'll enjoy nonetheless.
"Tee-ball game at 6 o'clock," he said Tuesday morning with a grandfatherly smile.
Such is the suddenness of life out on the narrow ledge of postseason baseball. One day you're trying to come up with some way, any way, to get Corey Seager out. The next, you're cheering for your grandkid to make contact on a 0-mph offering.
And from experience Snitker can tell you that base running in both cases can be a little maddening.