The dream is as old as baseball itself -- bottom of the ninth, two outs, tie game. Thomas Burrows played through the moment over and over as he grew up.
Every player imagines himself as the hero. Burrows did, too. He thought of home runs, of a slow jog around the bases and teammates flooding home plate as the game ended.
The University of Alabama’s closer didn’t think he’d end up as the guy to wreck those moments.
“When I go back to when I was a little kid, I guess I was always the guy at the plate,” Burrows said.