The beauty of the Wild Card Game is that every moment is magnified.
On Tuesday in Toronto, that beauty shone in all its glory.
Playing before a raucous Rogers Centre crowd in the do-or-die American League showdown, the Blue Jays and Baltimore Orioles tussled for 11 taut innings before Toronto won, 5-2, on a three-run walk-off homer by Edwin Encarnacion.
It was a close, exciting contest. We got a head-scratching managerial decision by Orioles' skipper Buck Showalter (more on that in a moment). And we got an iconic Blue Jays home run that was arguably the biggest since Joe Carter did his thing in 1993.