Baseball is a game built on moments.
One pitch. One swing.
Gehrig got a tough break. Ruth called his shot. Bobby Thomson’s shot was heard ’round the world.
Moments that transcend the game and become legendary.
On a sleepy night in late June, as with hundreds of such seemingly inconsequential moments that preceded it, baseball happened, in its purest form.
A new legend had been born.
We will forever telling tales to our children of where we were when Leury García walked against Shohei Ohtani.
“Did you see his at-bats?”
Hall of Fame manager Tony La Russa, no stranger to greatness in his decades around the game, could hardly contain himself recalling the moment after the game.