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冗談でもなく、「生きていてよかったな。」と最近思ったのは、下記の文章を読んだ瞬間だった。英語の文章はかっこよく、本人の発言は素晴らしく、ゲーム内容は過去にも見たことがない試合内容だった。

なんっつうか、個人的な話。カナダに住んでいなければブルージェイズを応援しなかったし、トロントに行かなければパソコンの前で拳を突き上げることもないし、英語を勉強しなければ今のこの文章の美しさもわかることはなかった。総じて、生きていてよかったなと思わせてくれた試合だった。いつか、こういう文章や写真を飾れるようになりたい。

Let me take you inside my head for a second. It’s Game 5 of the ALDS against Texas. Do or die. Tie game, seventh inning. Two men on. Two outs.

I was standing in the on-deck circle when we knocked in the tying run, and the crowd just exploded. Imagine standing there on the field and looking up at 50,000 people going crazy. Then I took that lonely walk to the plate with everything on the line.

I wish you could have heard my thoughts in that moment. It’s the closest I have ever felt to being a superhero. I felt like I was Batman, and the villain had the girl dangling off the edge of the building. My adrenaline wasn’t 10-out-of-10. It was ten-million-out-of-10.

The stage was set.

I was so locked in that all I could see was the pitcher. Everything else was out of focus. It was so loud that it was quiet.

PHOTOGRAPH BY PETER LLEWELLYN/USA TODAY SPOR

Think about the odds of being the person standing there at the plate in that moment.

There have only been roughly 18,000 players in the history of Major League Baseball. How many out of that number have played in a playoff game? One third maybe? I’ve played over 1,400 games, and that was my first playoff series. Out of those 6,000 or so, how many players have been lucky enough to be in a position to change the outcome of a playoff series with one swing? Maybe 10 percent? And how many have succeeded?

None of this math was going through my head when I was standing at the plate. That came later on, when I had time to reflect at home. All I was thinking in the moment was, This is your chance. Just relax. Get ready early. See it and hit it.

When you’re in that situation, you’re playing a role in a show. I’m not Jose Bautista. I’m the guy trying to be the superhero. I’m coming through. I’m going to make something happen.

When the pitch came in, I turned on it. It was just a natural reaction, just like I’ve done hundreds of times before.

There’s no sound in the world like the crack a baseball makes on the sweet spot of my maple Marucci. You blink on contact. The immediate roar of the crowd lifts your sights to see where the ball is going. Imagine the feeling of watching it land in the seats. How would you feel? What would you do?

There was no script. I didn’t plan it. It just happened.

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写真と文章は下記から引用させて頂いております。http://www.theplayerstribune.com/jose-bautista-bat-flip/