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Pirates defeat Twins 2-1 on Hunter Owen’s walk-off homer

It was a game bookmarked by offense at the start and the end, but the Pittsburgh Pirates broke through a 1-1 tie in the bottom on the ninth to score a 2-1 victory over the Minnesota Twins this afternoon at LECOM Park

With yet another tie looming as the Pirates came to bat in the ninth, I tweeted this:

Hunter Owen, who’d replaced Oneil Cruz in left field (not a typo), must have heard me because this happened:

Something, something, my lips, God’s ears, something.