"Get away! Get away!" he screamed at the kid as he rounded third. "I was screaming bloody murder."Īs was Zimmerman, who wasn't 100 percent sure about the consequences but was 100 percent sure this was no time to find out. ![]() "You know if (Soto) touches him, he's out," manager Davey Martinez said. Soto? He's now a 19-year-old rookie, very much living the dream, wanting nothing more than to reach out and grab Zimmerman as the latter circled the bases following the walk-off homer that gave the Nationals a dramatic 8-7 victory tonight.īut wait a second, Juan! Don't get too close to Zimmerman until he actually rounds third and touches the plate following a replay review that forced him to stand patiently on second base while officials in New York correctly determined that his drive to right field with two outs in the bottom of the ninth actually did clear the fence before bouncing back onto the grass below. ![]() The 11th time that he did it, tonight off the Phillies' Seranthony DomÃnguez, Zimmerman was a 33-year-old first baseman, still battling in big spots at the plate but also battling the nicks, bruises and more serious injuries that have come to define his career as much as his on-field success. Juan Soto? He was a 7-year-old kid in Santo Domingo who perhaps already had dreams of one day playing in the major leagues but surely could not have envisioned playing alongside Zimmerman in a ballpark in Washington that had not yet been built. ![]() The first time he did it, way back on Father's Day 2006 off the Yankees' Chien-Ming Wang, Ryan Zimmerman was a 21-year-old rookie third baseman, with a whole career still ahead of him and no clue how winding a path he would take despite spending all of it as a National.
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