No, it wasn't Chris Sale and J.D. Martinez saving the Boston Red Sox from an onset of Tight Collar Disease by beating the Yankees 5-4 in Game 1 of the ALDS.
(Although, really, can you imagine how those old "Oh, my God, we're losing to the Yankees!" heebie-jeebies would have risen up had the Evil Empire beaten Boston's ace in Fenway? 'Tis Halloween-y scary to think about.)
Anyway ... no. This playoff baseball moment involves beer!
It involves a Houston Astros fan and all-around magnificent human, Eddie Flores, who promised to buy beer for everyone sitting around him if George Springer hit a homer in Game 1 of the Astros-Indians ALDS. And in the fifth inning, George Springer did! And Flores bought everyone around him in Section 103 of Minute Maid Park a beer to celebrate!
It cost Flores somewhere in the neighborhood of $500. But it was worth it!
"I just love my team, man," Flores told the Houston Chronicle. "I knew Springer was going to hit one, and I wanted everyone to know it. I called it."
He did!
Isn't playoff baseball great?
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