This was going to be the time, thought the person who knows Hunter Renfroe best.
“I was so excited for him,” Courtney Renfroe said. “I was like, ‘He’s going to have some emotion.’ Who wouldn’t?”
Her husband, she was soon reminded.
He had raised his hands in triumph after turning on a fastball from Kenley Jansen with two outs in the ninth inning for a walk-off grand slam May 5 against the Dodgers. A man would have to be dead to not exult in such a moment, or when greeting his excited teammates at home plate.