CHICAGO — You wait a whole baseball lifetime to simply get to a World Series — all the games and years and indignities — and then you are winning 6-0 early in a pennant clincher.
“What you feel is, ‘Why the hell is it only the third inning, let’s hurry up and get to the ninth,’ ” Joe Torre said.
Few men on the planet could understand what Terry Collins was experiencing Wednesday night at Wrigley Field better than Torre, who was there as MLB’s chief baseball officer.
For Torre used to dread even watching the postseason.