Buster Posey and at least a couple Brandons helped, of course.
There isn't a baseball-satisfaction index, but there should be. Maybe that's something for an offseason project. It would be a list of satisfying ways to experience a win, ranked in order of satisfaction. Walk-off grand slam on the far right, pyrrhic win with a devastating injury on the left. Somewhere on the right, way over, would be Wednesday's game against the Padres.
There are a lot of obvious reasons.
- Dingers
- Padres
- Series win
- The score
- A reverse-Caining
- Padres
I'd also like to think that Dale Thayer spit his gum out in continuing frustration, but got the gum stuck in his muttonchops, which led to every member of the Padres organization stopping by his locker after the game to share their home remedies for getting gum out of a beard.