It wasn’t supposed to end like this.
For most of tonight’s 3-1 win over the Kansas City Royals, the Cleveland Indians offense looked lost, overwhelmed, and confused. They were being shredded by yet another lefty whose fastball might reach 89 miles per hour in his wildest dream, and they stranded runners in scoring position two innings in a row. Then, with a spark of back-to-back dingers, my memory of the game stops looking like grainy WWII footage and becomes a 4K IMAX experience.
Eric Hosmer could never hope to live up to the expectations put on him by Indians radio announcer Tom Hamilton, but he did his best today.