The baseball gods, feeling generous towards someone if not Red Sox fans, gave us some goddamn poetry last night in Seattle.
Roman Anthony, the youngest player in Major League Baseball and the next great star on a baseball club that tells the story of itself through its stars, hit his first big league home run. In so doing, he became the youngest Red Sox player to homer since the team’s last great star, Rafael Devers, who hit his first big league home run eight years before, in the very same ballpark.
The world writ large — and baseball in particular — does this from time to time: creates a moment so sublime that you can’t help but wonder if it’s worth a damn.