Every blue moon, our instincts betray us. The Los Angeles Dodgers were on the winning end of such an occasion on Monday in Game 1 of the NLCS, whereas Brice Turang and the Milwaukee Brewers had a much different experience.
Turang stepped to the plate in the bottom of the ninth with the bases loaded and his team down one run. It seemed like a dream scenario for Milwaukee to have one of its most talented bats at the plate in this situation, even against a robust reliever such as Blake Treinen.
In truth, as Turang stepped to the plate, the Brewers felt beyond fortunate to have any sort of chance to steal a win or force the game into extras, given that Blake Snell had just utterly dominated them for the first eight innings of the game.