Cody Bellinger raised his right arm toward the heavens as he touched home plate. Yasiel Puig followed him and pointed down the first-base line.
There, a couple of feet from the bag, David Freese extended both of his index fingers in the direction of the Dodgers bench. An eerie silence blanketed SunTrust Park.
Moments like these were supposed to be only in Freese’s past. Freese was now 35, almost eight years removed from the night when he forever etched himself into St. Louis’ collective memory.
Only here he was again, on the October stage with which he will always remain associated, clapping to celebrate a sixth-inning single that drove in the equalizing and go-ahead runs in Game 4 of the National League Division Series.