Where does a play-at-the-plate rank in the pantheon of cool shit that happens on baseball field? It’s way up there! Home runs are cool, of course, if not relatively common. Triples are fun as hell. And maybe nothing beats a straight steal of home, though those are tell-your-kids-about-them rare. The point is that plays-at-the-plate are amazing — so much so that the penultimate scene of the greatest baseball movie of all-time features a ballgame that ends on one. But that’s the problem: stuff that happens in Hollywood usually doesn't happen in real life.
It did today in Toronto.