We're midstream in October now, the month when nature gets drunk on color and throws its entire dazzling palette at us. It's a glorious month, NFL officiating notwithstanding. And part of why it's glorious is October baseball, which somehow always finds a way to redeem everything.
And so in a world of phantom penalties and football players shoving photographers and the general insanity of a dismaying chunk of our citizenry, baseball offered us a needed timeout yesterday. It offered us Yordan Alvarez.
Who brought the Astros back from near death in the first game of their ALDS series with Seattle yesterday, and did it in a way that makes you remember why baseball does drama better than almost any other sport. Down 7-3 to the Mariners entering the eighth inning, the 'Stros got back within two on Alex Bregman's two-run swat, then put two more runners on in the bottom of the ninth.
After which Alvarez launched a majestic 438-foot rocket to snatch the W, 8-7.
Here's how it looked, boys and girls. Enjoy.
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