Adam Eaton has been waiting for this weekend for a long, long time — about eleven months, to be exact.
On Opening Day, he kept it simple: a single, a run, a put-out in the outfield were all he needed to deem his first game back a success.
However, on Saturday, he turned on the jets.
It began inauspiciously enough, with a single to lead off the game, just as he had done the day before, then scoring on Matt Adams’ home run. His next at-bat, a double over the centerfielder’s head that one-hopped the wall.