A walk off home run is perhaps the most exciting play in baseball. It usually involves high leverage, results in a significant change in win expectancy, and leaves one team and its fans very happy while the other is incredibly disappointed.
This is exactly what happened Thursday night when Yairo Muñoz belted his second home run of the season deep into the Busch Stadium batter’s eye. With the Cardinals down one run in the bottom the ninth with all three outs and runners on first and third to work with, Muñoz looked to lift something out of the infield.