I have my gripes about baseball, which badly needs reform, but there’s still nothing like it in October. I had the TV on mute and was only half-watching at work during the Cubs-Cardinals Game 4, when I thought the camera was doing a nice panoramic view of the sky right after the end of the inning or before the start of a new inning. Actually, the camera was tracking the flight of an incredible moonshot by Kyle Schwarber:
Then, last night there was The Inning. Someone quipped on twitter that it will get it’s own 30-30, and he was probably right. There is already a TV special. The play on the Russell Martin throw alone would qualify as one of the strangest things you’ve ever seen in a high-stakes game:
But the crowd was so insane and the atmosphere was so electric, you had the feeling the plot was going to have a few more twists, and perhaps by the first, probably by the second, and certainly by the third Rangers error in a row in the bottom of the inning, it was clear it wasn’t going to be good for Texas. The Inning culminated with a Jose Bautista blast, followed by not one, but two bench-clearing scuffles:
What great drama, and what memories for the fans of these teams that, for better or worse, will last a long time.