It was July 16, 2010, and it was one of those moments in Rangers history that we’ll never forget.
The Bengie.
A month short of a decade earlier, on August 16, 2000, there was another landmark Rangers moment that may not have the staying power but will stick with me forever.
The Sikorski.
Last night we were treated, sort of, to both.
The odds of a Shin-Soo Choo cycle, objectively speaking, shouldn’t be as long as they were for the comically slow Bengie Molina, whose 13-year career included six triples (Choo has 24 in 11 seasons), but the way Choo has been going at the plate, extra-base hits and multi-hit games of any sort have felt like longshots lately, and with Choo due to lead off the ninth, needing just the three-bagger, and Delino DeShields slated to hit fourth in the frame, lacking just a home run for his own cycle, I know which of the two I had greater hopes for.