When Wilmer Flores steps into the batter’s box, he changes the game. You don’t lead the league in runs batted-in without this being true, and you don’t lead the league in runs batted-in without doing a lot of things right. The big things, definitely. Barreling baseballs, launching taters — all those headline grabbing feats of flair and power. In case you missed it: Flores’s career-night on Friday was this kind of display. Three swings, 8 RBIs. He was the bowling ball on the mattress. The center. He stepped up to the plate and the field, the players, the fans, the energy reoriented itself to his core.
Where there’s a Wilmer, there’s a way
