See Jesus run. Run, Jesus, run.
Did you catch Montero running on that double? He will never be fast, but he has done some kind of job working to improve from one of the slowest baserunners I've ever seen to one who is just a little slow.
It's a cryin' shame Jack and Mac were so slow giving him a real chance this season.
Just like we have a King's Court for Felix, maybe we will need a Resurrection Section for Montero! We don't need no stinkin' Trumbo, we don't need no stinkin' LoMo (despite his surprising two hard-hit balls last night vs. Hamels).
Truly Montero's double to right center in the 8th last night was a thing of quality.
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Edited to add:
I have a much younger relative who was reared by a sociopathic father (briefly a relative of the family). He enlisted in the Army to get away, served and came back scarred. Down on his luck and living as a kind of "emotional prisoner" with his father and a stepmother in Southern California, a few years ago he was at his wits end in life. He very nearly took it. From the Pacific Northwest an intervention intervention was initiated with the help of some strong, solid, determined men at a local church (thank God!), he was enabled to get out of there and he moved to the Pacific Northwest to be near those that truly loved him. Bear with me, there's a point to this story with regard to Montero.
With nowhere to go but up and with the help of a local pastor up here he began to blossom away from his abusive father and near his nurturing mother. In recent years he has proven to be a responsible rock for his mother when in several circumstances she really needed him to be that. Sometimes all a person needs is a chance. And this is where Jesus Montero comes in. Granted he blew many chances earlier in his career. He was a prima dona who thought he should have it all on talent alone. But once Montero faced his demons and determined to change, and once he had demonstrated that change by losing all the weight, humbling himself, and working hard at his craft, the only thing between him and success was a chance.
We can't know for sure exactly what Jack and Mac saw that made them withhold that chance this April. But they seemed to rub his face in his past. Then they jerked him around by calling him up briefly then sending him right back down after one weekend. Maybe they were testing his new-found attitude, I don't know. But they may have cost themselves their own jobs by not giving Jesus a chance out of the chute this season. Things could have gone much differently for this team with a few more runs in April.