Amazing Childhood Anecdote About Harrison Bader Proves He Was Built for October
By Jerry Trotta
One of the great features of postseason baseball? The heroic origin stories behind some of the role players on the teams that clinched.
The Atlanta Braves and St. Louis Cardinals got the ball rolling with the first edition of Divisional Series' games on Thursday, and the Redbirds stole a spirited victory with some late magic. Notably, Harrison Bader got things started with the Cards' first run of the game, and MLB insider Jon Morosi shared a brilliant memory from Bader's childhood after the young outfielder crossed the plate in the fifth inning.
How confident is Harrison Bader? At Horace Mann School, he sat in a statistics class one day, not paying attention, signing his name on a pad of paper. When his teacher asked what he was working on, Bader replied, “This is going to be worth something someday.” @MLBNetwork @MLB
— Jon Morosi (@jonmorosi) October 3, 2019
If that kind of confidence doesn't prove that the 25-year-old was born to play October baseball, then nothing will. How many young athletes can say that they called their eventual move to the pro level back in grade school? Our guess is not many, and Bader is surely the first to do so in a statistics course.
Not only is he winning off the field, but the Florida Gators product's aggressiveness on the base path is arguably the sole reason that St. Louis got on the scoreboard tonight when they did.
Harrison Bader helps the #STLCards manufacture the tying run by stealing third on Dallas Keuchel, who wasn't paying attention to him, and scoring on a Dexter Fowler groundout. 1-1 in the top of the 5th.
— Mark Saxon (@markasaxon) October 3, 2019
It's about damn time we realize that it's Harrison Bader's world and we're just living in it.