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Predicting that there will be a walk-off hit in the postseason isn’t bold in the slightest. There were only two walk-off wins last October, but there were three in 2022 (two of them by Oscar González) and five in 2021. So, you can almost take it to the bank that there will be a couple.
However, predicting that a walk-off hit will be delivered by one of three specific young players just might be the boldest of all these predictions.
Those three players are Jackson Chourio of the Milwaukee Brewers, Jackson Holliday of the Baltimore Orioles and Jackson Merrill of the San Diego Padres.
Of the bunch, Holliday is easily the least likely to pull it off. Not only is he batting .169 for the year, but with Jordan Westburg returning on Sunday from nearly two months on the IL, Holliday might not get a single start in the postseason. Maybe they use him as a pinch hitter, though? Per Baseball Reference, he has gone 10-for-35 with an .852 OPS in