@thesportsontap: He is five foot eight. He has hit 21 home runs in his entire Major League career. Tonight he hit one to tie a World Series game. His name is Sal Frelick and he plays right field for the Milwaukee Brewers. At Lexington High School in Massachusetts he played quarterback. As a senior he threw for 1,940 yards and 30 touchdowns, and ran for another 1,779 yards and 20 more. That is 50 touchdowns in one high school season. He was the Gatorade player of the year for the state. In football. Steve Addazio offered him a football scholarship to Boston College. Boston College was the only school in the country that wanted him for baseball. The baseball coach there, Mike Gambino, told him what that meant. "If you're coming here, you're just playing baseball." He thought about leaving for a school that would let him do both. Gambino asked if he was looking past college. He realized he was not. "My degree was the main reason I went to BC." He graduated in December of 2021, taking summer classes while riding minor league buses. The Brewers took him 15th overall that July. In 2024 he won a Gold Glove in right field. His mother Patty calls him scooch. It is Italian slang for a pain in the neck, and she has called him that since he was a toddler who would not stay put. He hugs her after games. Be honest about this season. It was not a good one. He hit .230. In July he went on the injured list with a torn labrum in his shoulder and did not play for a month. He has never been a home run hitter. And his team has never won a World Series. They have been to exactly one, in 1982, and they lost it. They are up two games to none in this one. But a five foot eight outfielder who was a better football player, who got one baseball offer in the country, who hit .230 on a torn shoulder, tied Game 2 with one swing, and his team is up two games to none. When did you last pick the harder thing on purpose. #MLB #baseball #brewers #milwaukee #brewcrew

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