Immaculate Grid Is The Game Sweeping Through MLB Clubhouses – Sports Illustrated (2023)

TITLE
Immaculate Grid Is The Game Sweeping Through MLB Clubhouses

AUTHOR
Stephanie Apstein

PUBLICATION
Sports Illustrated

YEAR
2023

ARTICLE TYPE
Article

FROM THE ARTICLE
Mike Jacobs played 569 games over parts of seven seasons in the major leagues from 2005 to ’12, making his way from the Mets to the Marlins to the Royals back to the Mets and then to the Diamondbacks. He accumulated –2.4 wins above replacement as a pinch hitter and first baseman. The last of his big league time came as a September call-up in Arizona, where he hit .211 in 19 at bats.

But one of his teammates there was lefty Wade Miley, which is how Miley came to know that Jacobs had played in New York and Miami, which is how Miley came to be shouting Jacobs’s name across the Brewers’ clubhouse on a recent Thursday in New York, because Jacobs had just helped Miley earn a 76 rarity score on that day’s Immaculate Grid game.

GAMES MENTIONED
Immaculate Grid

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