In the third game of World Series, Yulieski Gurriel hit a second inning home run off of Dodger’s starting pitcher Yu Darvish. It was not the home run that was the most talked about after the game, was what Gurriel did after he rounded the bases and returned to the dugout.
Lyle Alzado lay in his bed at age 43. His body withered in the final irreparable stages of a losing battle with brain cancer. Just before Alzado died in 1992, he said, “My last wish? That no one else ever dies this way.”