ATLANTA — Dansby Swanson held his right arm in the air as he floated around the bases. Excitement had been slowly building through the night as a sleepy Atlanta Braves lineup started to wake up. But after Swanson’s game-tying home run clanked off the top of the right field wall in the bottom of the seventh inning of Game 4 of the World Series, Truist Park erupted.
Moments later, Jorge Soler drilled a pinch-hit go-ahead home run just over the left field wall and the merriment doubled. Players jumped out of the home dugout. Swanson, who grew up a Braves fan outside of Atlanta, screamed, clapped and waved his arms as he watched Soler run.