Jean Segura watched it get through, raised his fists and departed the earth.
He’s done “the jump” before. It’s been a go-to for go-ahead or walk-off hits of the past. Perhaps Segura simply didn’t know what to do in this particular moment and resorted to something familiar in an environment that was anything but.
Segura had never played in the postseason before. He had never had a bigger at bat in his life. Then, he stepped to the plate in the ninth inning of Friday’s Wild Card Series Game 1 at Busch Stadium, the Phillies trailing, everything on the line — and refused to let 10 years worth of build-up reach an anticlimactic resolution.