Former Major League Baseball MVP and GOP senatorial candidate Steve Garvey won a chance on Tuesday to face off against Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff for the California Senate seat that was held by the late Dianne Feinstein.
Garvey finished second behind Schiff but ahead of Democratic Reps. Katie Porter and Barbara Lee to give the GOP a slight chance to pull off a major upset in the heavily Democratic state. No Republican has won a U.S. Senate seat in California since 1988; there are twice as many registered Democrats as Republicans in the state.
“Let’s celebrate,” Garvey told his supporters. “Welcome to the California comeback.”
Referencing his walk-off home run as a San Diego Padre against the Chicago Cubs in the fourth game of the 1984 National League Championship Series, which kept the Padres in the series before they won the decisive fifth game to advance to the World Series, he…
