For baseball fans without any vested interests in the eight teams playing this weekend, yesterday was just about the perfect day of games. The four games delivered just the right combination of tension and action—the formula for any good baseball game—by showcasing the variety of genres only our game can provide.
Consider the Guardians series-clinching win over the Rays, or baseball’s version of a comedy built around a great premise: What if two teams that don’t score a lot of runs and don’t allow a lot of runs played a three-game playoff series?