By his own estimation, Jose Lobaton had not taken an at bat from the right side of the plate in around a month and a half before he stepped in against Los Angeles Dodgers’ lefty Rich Hill and hit a two-out, two-run home run to left field in Nationals Park to put Washington ahead 3-2 in what ended up a 5-2 win in Game 2 of this past October’s NLDS matchup.
It wasn’t quite as long as a month and a half, like Lobaton said, he’d faced two lefties from the right side in the last month of the season, but he hadn’t had many at bats and still managed to come up big in that spot.