With one swing of the bat, Mike Brosseau put the Tampa Bay Rays into the AL Championship Series on Friday night.
But he insisted afterward that the home run off Aroldis Chapman was especially sweet because of where it put the Rays -- and not what it did to the New York Yankees.
Brosseau and Chapman have a history: The Yankees closer threw a 101 mph fastball near Brosseau's head Sept. 1 in the ninth inning of a 5-3 Rays victory. Chapman likely had nothing against Brosseau personally, but the pitch was an apparent escalation of a feud between the AL East rivals, and it prompted Tampa Bay manager Kevin Cash's infamous declaration that he has "a whole damn stable full of guys that throw 98 miles an hour.