While I do feel a little dirty using a Hawkism in my header, I think the play in question is pure enough to wash it away. In that, Kris Bryant’s home run was like the water of Lake Minnetonka. Prior to his shot in the 8th, the game had felt oddly suppressed. The only prior offense had come in the form of wind-aided homers from Dexter Fowler, Bryce Harper and Denard Span.
Had this been a sprint, the times would have been disallowed from record contention. So unlikely was Harper’s homer that he actually threw his bat down in disgust at the fact that he’d simply hit a routine fly out to left.