When he hit it, I did what he did, and maybe what you did: I just looked. I stared at the screen, mouth open, and watched the ball’s flight. The FS1 announcers, who were pretty good the whole series, did the boss move of letting the crowd noise tell the story; they got that they had nothing to add to the mass emotion of the scene.
So the camera lingered on Bryce Harper, watching the baseball he’d just struck clear the seats in left-center field. His whole life had been leading up to this moment, and he did the thing that almost nobody ever actually does.