
CINCINNATI -- As he stood there on that pitcher's mound Sunday night, history in his grasp, it was hard to remember the Cole Hamels of last October.
The Cole Hamels who put all those zeroes on the scoreboard Sunday night in Cincinnati was more like the 2008 edition, the World Series MVP edition, the reach-for-the-sky edition.
Only better.
So he's not to be confused with the 2009 model. … The guy with the 7.58 postseason ERA. … The guy who never got through the sixth inning in any of his four...