It wasn’t exactly “The Shot Heard ’Round the World,” but it sure made it to Chicago in a hurry.
After Wilmer Flores’s soap-operatic home run ended Friday’s Nationals-Mets game, even Michael Kay and Paul O’Neill, working the Yankees-White Sox game on YES, couldn’t resist recapping and marveling at “Wilmer’s Excellent, Tear-Filled Four-Day Adventure.”
Just when it seems time to swear off sports as a business predicated on doing one-way bad business, something happens to cause a reconsideration. Friday’s Nationals-Mets, start to finish, did the trick.
There hasn’t been a New York infielder since Brian Doyle to elicit such empathy, wonder and joy than Flores.