We made it.
Opening Day tomorrow will mark baseball’s first “normal” day of games since a global pandemic swept up the world and ended spring training last March. It delayed the season for several months and kept fans out of the stands until the very end. Baseball happened, but it was more like something related to baseball, with its piped-in crowd noise and bat cracks echoing off the outfield bleachers. It was baseball, but it wasn’t the same.
In late October, a COVID-positive Justin Turner rushed the field to celebrate the Dodgers World Series win over the Rays, and that was that.