Louis Cardinals hired, he gave it to a group of us to read that were hand-chosen from the Cardinals to work with him,” Pham said.

Pham was inspired by Kurt Reece’s self-help book “Good Is The Enemy Of Great.” He also was picked off second base by Montgomery. He singled in the second, hit opposite-field doubles to right in the fourth and sixth, and singled in the eighth. Pham, a trade-deadline acquisition from the New York Mets, entered in a 3-for-29 skid that included a Game 1 homer. He went 12-8 with a 3.29 ERA in 30 starts this season and is 3-1 with a 2.25 ERA in four postseason starts.

Kelly made his big league debut with Arizona in 2019 and is 48-43. “At the end of the day, I think what helped over there the most is almost being my own voice and my own pitching coach.” “The coaches that I had, the translation factor, obviously, is a bit of a hindrance,” he said later in the interview room. In an on-field interview with MLB Network, he called it “Lost in Translation” type stuff, referring to the 2003 Sofia Coppola movie of cultural displacement, saying “as far as how they view pitching, for four years I pretty much had to figure it out myself.”

“It felt literally and figuratively miles away.” “I definitely had visions and images about me sitting on this podium,” Kelly said in the postgame interview room, recounting how he got up each morning, made coffee and checked MLB games. Kelly’s agents at Apex Baseball arranged a contract and Kelly spent 2015-18 with SK Wyverns in Incheon. Kelly was drafted by Tampa Bay in 2010 and had spent six seasons in the minors when he was told by pitcher Doug Mathis he had been spotted by a South Korean scout while pitching in Rochester, New York.

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