If Los Angeles wins, Connor Brogdon and Zach Logue will get the same rings as Mookie Betts and Shohei Ohtani.
A coach on that championship Braves team, Sal Fasano, spent parts of 11 seasons as a catcher often bouncing between the majors and minors. In 2002, he appeared in only two major-league games, taking one at-bat. But that at-bat came for the Angels, who would go on to beat the Giants in the World Series. For those two games, Fasano received his only World Series ring as a player.
“You’re happy,” Fasano said, “because you’re part of one of the greatest teams of all time.”
That happiness, however, isn’t without nuance. As he watched that championship run from the dugout, he felt a certain guilt wash over him as Darin Erstad circled under the Series-clinching fly-out, and in the celebration that followed.
“You win a World Series and everybody’s excited,” Fasano said. “And you’re sitting there going, ‘What did I really do? I didn’t really do anything.’ You spend all your life wanting to win a World Series, then you know you didn’t contribute that much.”
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