May 23 is Randal Grichuk’s day - A Hunt and Peck

Have you ever opened a fortune cookie or read a horoscope and saw your "lucky numbers"? I am not exactly sure what lucky numbers mean or how to even apply them to my life, but if I had to guess, 5 and 23 must appear to Randal Grichuk a lot. For the second year in a row on May 23, Grich scored a key run in the ninth inning (2015 doesn’t count because there was not a ninth inning in that game, but had there been, he probably would have scored then, too).

On May 23, 2016 Randal Grichuk did this:

Tuesday night, in the ninth inning against the Dodgers, with one out and Clayton Kershaw on the mound, he scored from second on a wild pitch. See for yourself here.

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what the cardinals are up to...

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KNOW THINE ENEMY...

the los angeles trolley dodgers

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the nl central

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• Joey Votto absolutely schooled these hecklers on camera | SBNation.com