Before the first inning of Game 5 of the World Series was even over, Atlanta had a 4-0 lead on the Houston Astros and Truist Park was generating the kind of noise that can only come from long-suffering fans finally staring a championship in the face.
But the longer the night went on, the more that face started to look like the pale, lifeless visage of a repurposed William Shatner mask.
There wasn't any one moment that turned this Halloween into the sort of nightmare with which Atlanta fans are all too familiar.