“If you look at how we got here, you can look back, every guy has done something,” Davey Martinez told reporters on Friday afternoon, as the National League champion Washington Nationals worked out in preparation for their trip to the 2019 World Series.
“I started collecting baseballs every game we won. I picked a player of the game, which was tough to do — some balls have 2-3 players of the game, and I put them up on the wall, and I want them to understand that it takes a whole team to win, not just one individual, so every ball has somebody different on there each and every game, and we collected all these balls, and every now and then I see guys just going in there, staring at each ball, and dates, and what we’ve done and how we did it, and I can tell that they really appreciate it.