Sometimes, baseball is fun. That was true for the first eight and a half innings of tonight’s game against the Washington Nationals, during which Freddie Freeman triumphantly announced his return to the lineup by hitting a go-ahead homer off of reigning Cy Young winner Max Scherzer, and then drove in two more runs to deliver a three-run lead. It was also manifest in R.A. Dickey’s five hitless innings to begin the game, as well as the fact that he outdueled Scherzer in David v. Goliath fashion.
But, alas, sometimes baseball is very, very not fun.