There are few things more beautiful about baseball than the precious gem that is an MLB debut, of which there were two during Tuesday night’s game between the San Francisco Giants and Washington Nationals, one for each team.
You don’t get this type of magic in most other sports debuts. When a basketball or football player is drafted, you expect to see them in the next game your team plays.
But in baseball? You get drafted and the odds are immediately stacked against you ever even having a debut. If you defy the odds and make it to the Majors, it’s under one of two circumstances.