ST. LOUIS - - Jean Segura's vocation traversed 11 seasons and 1,328 games before he at last came to the postseason, the longest dynamic streak in the significant associations. On the morning of his most memorable season finisher game, the Philadelphia Phillies' second baseman scarcely rested. He stirred at 7 a.m. "with adrenaline in my body." Friday wore on, and that edge won't ever leave.
"I was intellectually centered around each play, each pitch," Segura said. "I came arranged today to play a game, and to have the option to be here - - I simply say thanks to God that everything was my ally."
Fill in some te With the Phillies down a run, the bases stacked, one out in the highest point of the 10th and the St. Louis Cardinals scrambling to supplant their injured nearer, Segura snuck a grounder past a marginally attracted infield, plating two runs and driving the Phillies to an impossible 6-3 dominate in the initial match of their best-of-three special case series, putting them on the cusp of progressing into the Public Association Division Series.