There was a little more spring in Tony Barnette's step when he made his Japan Series debut in the ninth inning of Game 3.
"I thought about that myself too," he said after the Tokyo Yakult Swallows' 5-4 win on Tuesday night. "I was like, 'that was a little extra hoppy tonight.'
"Maybe all that pent-up energy that'd been building up, and the fans are just going crazy. It's hard not to get excited for a situation like this."