Trey Mancini has the words almost committed to memory, two months after they flashed across his cellphone screen in one of the darkest moments of a season full of them — “right in the thick of it,” as he’d call it.
It was after a Saturday matinee with the Miami Marlins, a game in which he’d slammed his helmet in frustration after having a game-tying hit taken away from him on a ball up the middle to end the inning. By then, a scowl had become part of his uniform. His sister, Katie, tried to change that.