Sal Frelick is not a perfect baseball player. But Frelick might just be a perfect ballplayer, if you’ll allow me to jump into backwards baseball cliches that I don’t really believe in. And right now, he feels like the spark that’s keeping the Brewers’ season alive.
This week’s series against the Red Sox has been sort of a perfect microcosm of Frelick’s season. On Monday, he knocked a pinch-hit single. On Tuesday, it was Frelick’s clutch hit that tied the game in the ninth inning, setting up Christian Yelich’s walk-off grand slam in the 10th.