ST. LOUIS—He hadn’t had a chance to count the text messages yet, but Chris Coghlan’s phone was already blowing up in his locker with friends, family and well-wishers by the time he finished doing the media rounds following the Blue Jays’ 6-5 inter-league win over the Cardinals on Tuesday at Busch Stadium. Coghlan had just scored one of the most memorable runs in the modern history of the 24-hour sports cycle, diving over catcher Yadier Molina who had the baseball ready to make a tag, somersaulting over the all-star receiver, landing headfirst on home plate, rolling to his feet, checking the umpire’s call and then giving a broad safe sign as he raced back to the Jays’ dugout. Unbelievable theatre. “Last second really,” Coghlan admitted. “I was coming around third. I looked to my left to see where the ball was and I thought it was going to beat me. Then probably the last step or two I saw Yadi go down and your first thought’s like, OK I’m going to run him over because he’s right over the plate. Then I was thinking since he was down, why don’t you jump and I just jumped. Then the rest was history. I was joking. I was trying to do my best Willie Mays Hayes impersonation.”Read more: Martin at third for Jays could work on many levels: GriffinJays’ Stroman no angel, but some performances are worth celebrating: GriffinJays` Aaron Sanchez optimistic after two days of throwingCoghlan admitted the only time he had really imagined a play like that was as a kid growing up. Other than what he actually did, which needs to be appreciated in slow motion to understand the spontaneous athleticism, his other option was to run Molina over. But Coghlan had a personal history watching what happened to Buster Posey that precluded him from taking that more violent course of action.“Those are all the thoughts that I had,” Coghlan said. “It was run him over! Oh, wa ...
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