We can see the Division Series finish line now. Our days of settling in to watch baseball at noon and then wrapping it up like 14 hours later — they’re over now too. It’s been a blast to be your Weird and Wild LDS correspondent. Somebody had to do it. So one last time Tuesday, for three potential postseason elimination games, that somebody was me.
I saw Freddie Freeman hit a game-winning home run that grew more shocking the more I thought about it. I saw the Astros haul out their 1990 Braves impression one more time. I saw the Dodgers jump all over the Giants, to set up a Game 5 classic Thursday. And I even took notes!
So here we go once again, on a journey through another fabulous day of October Weidness and Wildness.
1. Freddie or not
It was greatness against greatness, and what’s better than that? It was Freddie Freeman versus Josh Hader, tie game, eighth inning, nothing much riding on it except two teams’ magical seasons.
So how’d it turn out? I’m good with watching it one more time if you are.
“This is what you dream of when you’re a kid. You really do: Hitting a homer to clinch a playoff,” Freeman would say later, his heart still thumping after the game-winning bomb that ended the Brewers’ season and transported the Braves into the NLCS. “And for it to happen, it’s kind of amazing. It really is.”
But in that moment, I’m going to guess that even he didn’t know how amazing.
