There he stood in the batter’s box, Nolan Arenado’s best friend, just like he stood in Arenado's wedding and even stood in his house earlier that day, yet surely Nolan wished, at that moment, that he would go sit down.
Sure enough, with two runners on in Friday’s second inning, the Dodgers’ Trayce Thompson struck out and headed to the dugout bench.
“I know how competitive he is,” Thompson said. “When we're on the field, I don’t talk.”
Thompson is a high-level competitor, too, and that drew the two together, back when they were 14.