The trajectory of my baseball fandom this season can be described with two peaks and some very long valleys.
One of those peaks came in early August, when I attended my first game at Dodger Stadium since 2015. Kenta Maeda, one of my favorite pitchers, turned in his best outing of the season. The Dodgers won handily, part of their regular season dominance on their home field this year.
It wasn’t just the experience of seeing the Dodgers win that was important, or even the experience of seeing them in person. I was fortunate enough to see them at Fenway once last season and twice this year, including the game where Cody Bellinger hit a Steven Wright knuckleball into low Earth orbit.