Based on how Addison Barger stepped up in Game 1 of the World Series, you’d have thought he slept on a brand new California King bed the night before.
Apparently, that wasn’t the case. Not even close.
Barger’s teammate, Davis Schneider, revealed that the World Series hero of Game 1 slept on his pull-out couch the night before rewriting the record books with the first-ever pinch-hit grand slam in World Series history.
“His family was coming in tonight, so he needed someone to stay with,” Schneider said postgame. “He needed someone; he was staying with Myles [Straw], and then stayed with me.”
Barger and Schneider go way back, having been teammates with the Vancouver Canadians before becoming Major League Baseball players.
“My girlfriend’s here and he was like, ‘Can I sleep in the bed with you guys?’ I was like, ‘No, sleep on the couch.’”
“It was squeaking all night.”
Part 2 – Schneider and Barger were staying at the Marriott attached to the Rogers Centre, and were woken up this morning by the Game 1 rehearsals. pic.twitter.com/3aeeP67QUi
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Schneider also revealed that he and Schneider were staying at the Marriott hotel that’s attached to Rogers Centre, and that they were woken up by the Game 1 rehearsals at 9 a.m.
“We were like, ‘what the hell is going on, it’s so early,’” Schneider told reporters.
Despite the odd sleeping arrangements, Barger came up huge in Game 1 of the World Series, with his pinch-hit, grand slam in the sixth inning helping the Jays to an 11-4 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 1.
Between Barger sleeping on Schneider’s couch while Trey Yesavage bounces from hotel to hotel, this iteration of the Jays seems to be getting wins, no matter what the outside circumstances are.