SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – There is no surer path to baseball immortality than an overwhelming performance in the postseason.
Giants fans haven’t forgotten Cody Ross. Heck, they haven’t forgotten Dusty Rhodes.
And even though the Giants didn’t get past the Chicago Cubs in the NL Division Series last October, players and coaches won’t soon cease to marvel over the force of nature that Conor Gillaspie had become at the plate.
But there’s one player in Scottsdale who would prefer to move past all of it – the dive into the photographer’s well against the Dodgers in the final regular-season series, the tiebreaking, three-run shot off the Mets’ Jeurys Familia in the NL Wild Card Game, even the impossibly pulled triple off the Cubs’ Aroldis Chapman on a 100.