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Incredible sights and sounds from Guardians’ Walkoff feel like a movie
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Incredible sights and sounds from Guardians’ Walkoff feel like a movie

The New York Yankees and Cleveland Guardians teamed up to play an incredible Game 3 in the American League Championship Series on Thursday. The back-and-forth affair had a little bit of everything, with both sides hitting some incredible home runs at the precise moment they would deliver maximum drama. On a night when so many players took turns heroing, Cleveland’s David Fry went last, with a walk-off two-run homer in the 10th inning that cut the Yankees’ lead in half and gave Guardians fans realistic hope.

It was one of those games where, as soon as it was over, even as a neutral observer you couldn’t wait to see the highlights. The kind of sporting event where you text a regular fan and tell them to check out what happened. And the kind of thing that creates almost magical images of the scene.

Playoff baseball offers such rich stories and digs deep within to achieve something truly pure. There’s so much to be said about a beautiful game where the stakes couldn’t be higher and the action couldn’t be more exciting, but the sights and sounds are often more effective.

All this to say that this video, taken a few blocks from Progressive Field when Fry launched his bomb into the night and sent a city into a state of euphoria, is one of the coolest things on the internet right now. Building tension until the crack of the bat is heard. The waterfall of sound from there. A fireworks show to emphasize the winning moment.

Perfection.

If I were running Major League Baseball, I would make it a commercial for the sport. Heck, it already feels like a commercial made for the sport because it conveys a message without words.

Things like this are why the “baseball is dying” narrative and vague complaints about the sport not marketing its stars become unbearable. There’s some great, almost impossible-to-ignore theater going on for anyone who can stop complaining long enough to enjoy it. Year after year the sport seems to do a great job of reminding everyone what the sport has to offer.