Rajai Davis

You m- you remember that game seven? Probably the greatest game seven I ever saw when they played the Cleveland Indians.

Rajai Davis got that, uh, go ahead home r- and then the, they had the rain delay, and then Jason Heyward gave the, the speech of a lifetime that catapulted the Cubs to win a World Series.

By the way, Richard, uh, thank you for bringing in my autographed copy of the, uh, Ledger, your very first article.

Thank you.

Of

course, he helped the Cubbies, but who gave up the home run to Rajay Davis? That made me lose my mind that

night.

So,

And here we go.

Weather delay, and we had those Rajay Davis, you know, 2016 World Series flashbacks, nightmares going on for like two hours just waiting like, oh my gosh, I'm pins and needles, or the Browns are going to come out here and shit the bed.

And fortunately...

It was Baker Mayfield that came out there and shit the bed.

and not out of fandom

but out of it felt almost mystical like of all the people to hit a home run, Rajay Davis, of all the people to give up a home run, Aroldis Chapman.

And I remember I love feeding people in the press box.

I don't know why, but I will bring large quantities of food to press boxes at times.

Like, I don't go back and watch it because they lost that game, but they have an honor for it.

It's like, dude, if you're in that stadium and you turn down $10,000, $15,000 for your ticket, yeah, the Rajay Davis homer means a lot to you.

Go get your bobblehead and go shake his hand.

That's a big deal.

No offense to one of the greatest Brazilian baseball exports up there with Thiago Vieira.

What if I told you the lineup of Jan Gomes, Mike Napoli, Jason Kipnis, Francisco Lindor at age 22, Jose Ramirez at 23, Rajai Davis, Tyler Naquin, Lonnie Chisenhall, and Carlos Santana at 30 made it to the World Series? What if I told you that, Kurt? Would you believe me? I would tell you then the Brewers have no excuse.

Whoa, that's a really good point.

That's a really good point, especially when you look at Cleveland's pitching staff, which is quite good.

Uh, again, neither team scored until the eighth inning.

Rajai Davis came off the bench with a pinch hit three run double that won the game for the Mets.

I remember I was really bummed out, uh, after that game because I had flown out to Indiana, uh, because that was the year I graduated, um, college.

Like I said, graduated in May, uh, of 2019.

Was he hitting second in the order? It was like Jose three, Edwin four? Okay.

Like Rajay Davis?

No. 2012.

It was in Milwaukee.

So hopefully that answers the question.

And as far as who in Jays history stand out as exceptionally fast, I mean, Devon White, Roberto Alomar, Shannon Stewart, Rajai Davis, Ben Revere, though he wasn't here very long, Dave Collins way, way back in the day, Lloyd Moseby.

Those guys were incredibly fast.

Tony Fernandez was really fast, too.