LOS ANGELES — Contrary to what the marketing materials draped across Dodger Stadium and Fenway Park would have you believe, YouTube does baseball a disservice. Baseball has its Gibson home runs and Jeter flips and Robinson steals of home, but the beauty lies in the pauses in between.
This qualifies as a hot take in an age of four-hour games, and let’s be clear: No one wants to watch pitchers count every stitch on the baseball before delivering it. But amid the energy and chaos and motion, when the action is telling the story of the players, the moments of charged stillness tell the story of the humans.