DUNEDIN, Fla. — Of course, Kevin Pillar remembers his triple last season. How could he forget? Pillar, the Toronto Blue Jays’ center fielder, smoked a deep drive into the right-field corner at Busch Stadium in St. Louis. The Cardinals’ Stephen Piscotty leapt and smashed into the fence, never touching the ball, which caromed hard off the padding and skipped far away.
Pillar pulled into third with the triple — but that wasn’t what made the play memorable. The runner ahead of him, Chris Coghlan, vaulted his way into an eternal video highlight, launching his body over catcher Yadier Molina to score.