His jaw is set. The postseason is upon us, and baseball is all business. There is little banter around the batting cage. There is none of the fraternal frivolity you see in mid-summer. Throats are dry.
Tension is high.
Injuries are irrelevant. Lankford will be 30 years old next summer. Gaetti is 38. They will have time for their pain soon enough. Lankford missed the first two games of the Division Series with San Diego, and he was still on the bench midway through the Cardinals' clincher.