DENVER —
Manny Machado feels like he’s about to hit like Manny Machado, and he doesn’t want to discuss it.
“Why would I want to talk about that?” Machado said as he pulled the white socks with the individual toes from his locker Saturday afternoon. “I mean, I’m a superstitious person, and now you’re coming over here talking to me, and I’m just getting all (messed) up. So now if I go 0-fer, it’s your fault.”
He wasn’t laughing.
(Fortunately, he went 1-for-4 and scored a run in Saturday night’s 4-3 victory over the Rockies.