"Josh Hamilton's 10th-inning, two-run homer in Game 6 of the World Series seemed like a storybook ending to a physically trying postseason for the slugger. But little did Hamilton know, it was just the beginning of a run of bad luck.

The Rangers slugger ended up on the losing end of a World Series for the second straight year after Texas' bullpen couldn't hold a two-run lead, and Hamilton had to follow the season with surgery to repair a painful sports hernia. He then lost Jerry Narron, his "accountability partner" in Texas, to the Milwaukee Brewers, and saw his father-in-law, Michael Dean Chadwick, hired to replace Narron, only to have Chadwick drop out days later."