{"id":87950,"date":"2020-10-13T06:20:49","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T03:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/manuel-margot-emerges-as-rays-latest-hidden-treasure\/"},"modified":"2020-10-13T06:20:49","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T03:20:49","slug":"manuel-margot-emerges-as-rays-latest-hidden-treasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/manuel-margot-emerges-as-rays-latest-hidden-treasure\/","title":{"rendered":"#Manuel Margot emerges as Rays’ latest hidden treasure"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Manuel Margot emerges as Rays’ latest hidden treasure<\/strong>”
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\n As if the Rays didn\u2019t dig up enough hidden treasures from July through September, yet another jewel has declared itself in October.<\/p>\n

Unless you figured Manuel Margot would be the talk of the ALCS.<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old outfielder, once a Red Sox prospect, shined on both sides of the ball Monday afternoon as he led the Rays to a 4-2 victory over the Astros in ALCS Game<\/a> 2 at Petco Park. The Rays own a 2-0 lead in this best-of-seven set thanks in large part to their early-February acquisition, who now has three homers in the postseason after hitting just one in the regular season.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe focus level, the adrenaline, if you let that take over, you kind of lose focus of what else is around you,\u201d Margot said through an interpreter. \u201cYou find a way to help the team win.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yes, Margot \u2014 included in the package that the Red Sox sent to the Padres for closer Craig Kimbrel in 2015 \u2014 became a Ray on Feb. 8, not quite prime time of the Hot Stove League, when he and minor league catcher Logan Driscoll (a future Most Valuable Player, surely) came over from the Padres for reliever Emilio Pagan. After a quiet regular season, he now has three homers in the postseason, including a first-inning, three-run blast against losing pitcher Lance McCullers Jr., and he made a ridiculous catch in the second inning that ended one of the Astros\u2019 biggest rallies on the day.<\/p>\n

Of the catch, in which he tracked down George Springer\u2019s slicing foul ball in the sun, then tumbled over the wall and fell, Margot said, \u201cApp<\/a>roaching it, you don\u2019t realize how high it is. It gets a little lower over the wall. Once I flipped, it was a little further of a drop. That\u2019s when I got a little scared.\u201d He felt well enough to stay in the game, however, and it helped that he had seen White Sox outfielder Eloy Jimenez try to make a similar play in the 2016 Futures Game at Petco.<\/p>\n

It proved a most turbulent 2020 for Margot, more than for most of us. He spoke Monday of a scary incident in which his car exploded with him and his family inside it, \u201cA bystander was able to pull one of my kids out,\u201d he said. \u201cLuckily, I\u2019m able to tell you guys about it.\u201d And then he went on the bereavement list when he lost his father to the coronavirus in the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n

\u201cSpecial for him,\u201d Rays manager Kevin Cash said. \u201cReally special, and that means a lot. He\u2019s a family guy. He\u2019s been put through the ringer along with other family members\u2026. We\u2019ve turned him into our family, and everybody\u2019s really supportive of him and just so happy for what he\u2019s accomplished.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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