President Trump expanded his Twitter feed Sunday evening into the field of baseball punditry.
In a tweet shortly after congratulating the New England Patriots, including owner-friend Bob Kraft and the iconic Bill Belichick and Tom Brady duo for winning the AFC Championship Game, Mr. Trump boosted another Boston sports legend — former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling.
“Curt Schilling deserves to be in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Great record, especially when under pressure and when it mattered most. Do what everyone in Baseball knows is right!” he wrote.
In his career, which also included extensive stops with the Philadelphia Phillies and the Arizona Diamondbacks, Mr. Schilling won 216 games and garnered more than 3,100 strikeouts.
Among members of the 3,000-strikeout-club, all of whose non-steroid-era members are in the Hall of Fame, Mr. Schilling also has the lowest walks-to-strikeouts ratio.
Three of his teams won the World Series — the 2001 Diamondbacks, in which he was named co-MVP with pitching teammate Randy Johnson, and the 2004 and 2007 Red Sox.
His career post-season record was 11-2, the highest winning percentage in history of any pitcher with at least 10 decisions, and one of his most iconic moments was the 2004 “bloody sock” playoff game, in which he defeated the New York Yankees despite an injured ankle starting to bleed when sutures from recent surgery began bursting.
Of perhaps more-obvious interest to Mr. Trump, Mr. Schilling endorsed him for president in 2016, as he has every Republican presidential candidate this century. Mr. Schilling also been the subject of numerous run-for-office rumors, which he has always swatted away without ever saying “never.”
He was more recently fired from his job as an ESPN baseball analyst for expressing disagreement with trans ideology and for remarks critical of Islam.
• Victor Morton can be reached at vmorton@washingtontimes.com.
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