Kovacevic: An increasingly impressive collective conjures up some summer magic

Elias Diaz buried his heels into the batter's box with the Pirates down a run, three outs to burn, facing one of baseball's most renowned closers.

He worked a full-count walk.

About a half-hour later at his locker stall, I began bring this up with him: "Elias, you walked ... "

And he cut me off.

"Game is over."

Beg pardon?

"The game. It was over. My guys, they were going to get me home. They were going to carry us."

Carry, huh?

Funny, but I'd seen Matt Sunday's capture above of the climactic scene, the one in which Adam Frazier made like an IKEA deliveryman in carrying Corey Dickerson off the PNC Park grass Wednesday night following Dickerson's winning sac fly that capped a two-run rally and a 6-5…