Cincinnati Reds catcher Tyler Stephenson only remembers celebrating with emotion twice on a baseball field. The first was a walk-off home run in Low-A baseball, one of his first big hits as a professional baseball player.
That night, Stephenson hit a walk-off single as the Reds beat the San Diego Padres at Great American Ball Park. Before that game, the Reds had a 39-40 record and had lost nine of their last 13 games. After, the Reds are 30-17.
“It was all about the emotions of the game, for us to come back the way we did in the ninth,” Stephenson said last week.