The last home game of the season always has me feeling wistful. That the last home game happened relatively far from the actual end of the season is disorienting. This team now will be an abstract thing for the better part of a month, hot on the warpath toward the playoffs but far aflung. Even if they qualify, they might not get to play at home at all in the offseason. This means tonight is probably the last time we see blue and white shirts at Toyota Park until next spring.
You get so bogged down in the week-to-week struggle, the fight to make the postseason, all the trades and gossip and shenanigans, and it’s hard to stop and breathe and appreciate where you are.