LA Dodgers Ex Pitcher Josh Beckett No Hitter
LA Dodgers Playoffs
Wouldn’t it be nice is the LA Dodgers had someone who was part of
the team during the play-offs to bring home the League Championship? Here it is, time for the LA Dodgers post-season
play-off, a run toward the World Series and there is no pitcher like Josh
Beckett, who, at 23 received the award as the 2003 World Series MVP while with
the Marlins, and with the Red Sox for the win in the 2007 World
Series. - At 34 in he pitched a no hitter against
the Philadelphia Phillies for the Los Angeles Dodgers on May 25, 2014 becoming
the 19th man to do so in Dodgers history. However, his year and career ended due
to an injury and he announced his retirement on October 7, 2014. But For Beckett there was never another time for a World Series
appearence. In a different context but similar circumstances Josh said
this about change, "As much as I'm looking forward to the next chapter, I
enjoyed the last one. Even during the tough times I met so many people who were
just awesome. They were real fans."
A Little More About Josh Beckett
With Beckett it would have been such an easier task but the
variety of injuries and the time spent in rehabilitation did not make for a
nice ending to the season that year. And he went in for surgery again next
year with the big life time out on the horizon.
There is always that observation that
baseball-is-a-metaphor-for-life. A young baseball player goes out and
plays through his youth and when he gets old enough he tries to make a living
at it. He makes a team. He has good days and bad days. He
goes home and his wife and children are happy to see him.
When he plays he is part of a team of workers but he has his individual job to
do, pitch, strike, hit, catch, etc. - all of which he does on his own.
There is nobody to help him on those things. Either he has learned his
skills or not. Yes, his co-workers help him out on some of his skills,
but the bottom line is - he is on his own. Josh
Beckett says to others, "... I just tell them, 'You have to deal
with some of this and some of that, but you're going to get this and get
that.''
I always liked what Beckett had to say about his pitching and
which could apply to almost anything anyone does. He said, “I think I've
always been prepared for this. I know what I have to do. You can't make rocket
science out of it. You just have to execute pitches. Don't let exterior
distractions in. It just takes away from what you're trying to do.”
