On Monday, “Maybe This Time” came on my Spotify playlist, and while I’m too embarrassed to tell you which playlist I was listening to, I’m not too embarrassed to tell you that I cried. I’ve liked that song for a long time, but tears? Never before. So I’ve spent the past hundred hours wondering why I had such a strong emotional reaction to a song I’d heard a hundred times before.
Then tonight, during the bottom of the fifth inning, it clicked. The action in this game got started early, with the Mariners sending seven men to the plate in the first inning alone.