For a few fleeting seconds after Ke'Bryan Hayes' headfirst slide into home plate that essentially routed through the Cubs' Willson Contreras, there was a safe call, smiles across PNC Park, the first of the fireworks flying over the Downtown skyline, and a celebration that ... fizzled almost as fast when Hayes wasn't moving, face down in the batter's box.
Followed by stone silence.
Look, listen and try to feel what it was like in here:
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Notice how the in-game entertainment people smartly pounced on the music volume, too?