SAN FRANCISCO -- If only Aroldis Chapman had known what Conor Gillaspie was going to say more than two hours later, maybe none of this absurdity would have happened.
Then again, you could say the same thing for Ralph Branca or Dennis Eckersley or Clayton Kershaw or any other pitcher who has been hit by one of those late-inning jolts that come out of nowhere and lodges forever in our memories from a great postseason baseball game.
Facing the hardest-throwing pitcher he had ever seen in his life, Gillaspie, not surprisingly, completely sold out on velocity.