“This ain’t a football game. We do this every day.”
The late Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver famously told this to a young Thomas Boswell when the Washington Post columnist felt he had overstayed his welcome in the dugout.
We do this every day.
When it’s cold. When our pitching staff is depleted. When we’ve had our souls ripped out by the Blue Jays.
Every day.
The rollercoaster road trip to Philadelphia and Toronto was just the latest rise and drop in this rollercoaster season. The team came home. They slept in their own beds (presumably), had some familiar food, and went to their home park.