So there’s an old baseball axiom: Momentum is the next night’s starting pitcher. This generally describes the carryover effect of what is going on for a team. You’ll hear it talked about most when a team is going good. But it is often used to explain when your team is hot and you are facing a team that maybe isn’t but then the tables turn. Things change because of a strong starting pitching performance.
That’s the thing about baseball. It often plays like it’s an assembly line, a season that stretches usually from the end of March into late September or early October.