CLEVELAND — Ben Zobrist wasn’t the kid intently watching the biggest baseball games of his childhood in Eureka, Ill., expecting to one day be on a World Series stage. Instead, he was the kid who’d watch a bit of a game, then go out in the yard and try to imitate what he briefly saw on TV.
So then would the kid from Illinois have watched the first inning of Game 6 of the 2016 World Series, found a friend and tried to barrel through him as Zobrist did to Cleveland Indians catcher Roberto Perez Tuesday night?
“No, no, no,” Zobrist laughed.