The New York Baseball METS are ahead in their current playoffs but their first baseman is suffering the ignominy of thirteen strikeouts to date. This brings to mind the travails of another first baseman, Gil Hodges, who in the 1952 World Series went 0 for 21 at bats for the Brooklyn Dodgers. The sentiment for him ran so deep that priests in all the Brooklyn parishes were exhorting their flocks to pray for him to break the slump. Later in his career Hodges managed the METS to their 1969 World Series title.
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