JUPITER, Fla. • What so many are seeing behind the plate and at the plate for Puerto Rico during its unbeaten barmstorm through the World Baseball Classic is not new for the Cardinals. They’ve seen this bounce and verve in Yadier Molina’s game before.
It’s what happens when he sniffs a championship.
“Yadier Molina,” Puerto Rico’s manager Edwin Rodriguez said at a recent press conference during the international tournament. “He is dominant in this.”
With Molina at the wheel, Puerto Rico blazed into the championship round of the WBC with a victory late Friday night against Team USA.