I’ll be the first — and joined by likely hundreds of thousands — to say that the Cleveland Guardians’ offense is not in the “what you like to see” realm right now. Over three games in two days, the lowly Detroit Tigers held the Guards to six runs, including a shutout that took about an hour and a half. Plainly someone in the Cleveland clubhouse had dinner reservations at the Little Ceasars flagship restaurant.
But sometimes, even when a team is at its nadir, even when it can’t seem to get out of its own way and just demands the opportunity to misfire and waste golden opportunities, every now and again the universe aligns and you get a perfect moment of baseball offense.