Baseball, lest we forget in this age of rave, is a pastime.
A pastoral series of moments to be savored, then won, lost, survived.
Instances of engagement to be built upon, or having succumbed, to rue.
On a sultry Saturday at the Jim, two Top 20 outfits — Louisville, Virginia — both attempting to close out their regular campaigns with victory in a series then split, there was such a moment.
It evoked tension thick as the humidity.
The finale against Virginia started early in hopes of avoiding impending inclemency.
So too the Cardinals in a reversal of their early and fatal travails on Friday in a way-behind-from-the-get-go setback.