30 Day Baseball Challenge: Underrated Player
∟Wilmer Difo
“[He] loves romantic songs. The Nationals infielder usually listens to them in Spanish, and they’re usually bachata or salsa, which makes sense considering he’s from the Dominican Republic and Spanish is his native language. But occasionally a romantic song in English catches Difo’s attention. He then finds the name of it, searches for it on YouTube, and pulls up the lyrics to sing along.
’I can practice my English, too,’” he noted, in Spanish. ‘I try to figure out what they’re saying and understand it.’
That’s what happened last week when Difo heard ‘Unchained Melody,’ the Righteous Brothers’ 1965 No. 1 hit, for the first time. He was instantly entranced and looked it up to play it over and over … and over and over again.
‘I had never heard it before,’ Difo said, ‘and I repeated it like 80,000 times.’”
