Charlie Morton APOLOGIZED to His Teammates for Only Being Enough of a Badass to Get Three Outs on a Broken Leg
Man, how could anyone possibly not absolutely love Charlie Morton? Here's a guy who took the ball in Game 1 of the World Series and pitched 2.1 innings of scoreless baseball to give his team a chance to win, the last three outs of which came on a broken right leg. And THAT guy was apologizing to his teammates for not being able to do more.
That's a certified badass.
Morton took a vicious comebacker off his right leg in the second inning and not only finished that frame pushing off the rubber with a broken fibula, but went and sat in the dugout for a while and then went back out and got two outs in the third before his leg finally gave out on him. He would have done literally anything he could to win that baseball game for the Atlanta Braves until his body wouldn't possibly let him throw another pitch. Somehow, he still didn't think he did enough.
This Braves team just has the guys, man. It is horribly unfortunate that Morton's season ended the way it did, but what he tried to do and his response shows you just what type of people are in that Atlanta clubhouse. They won't be denied.
This might actually be the most fired up I've been this Postseason. If ever there was an embodiment of Joc Pederson's rallying cry about this Braves team, it was Charlie Morton on Tuesday night. There's no doubt in anyone's mind now that he is, in fact, that motherfucker.
Let's go win this damn thing.