ATLANTA — There’s no place lonelier in a ballpark than center field. And when it’s the ninth inning and a game-altering ball is sailing over your head at more than 100 mph, there’s no place more terrifying, either.
They’ll be talking around here about what Michael Harris II and the Braves did Monday in Atlanta for a long, long time. Facing a zero-games-to-two deficit in the best-of-five NLDS heading to Philadelphia, Harris leaped halfway up the center-field fence, and the Braves instead evened the series.
After spending the first 15 innings of the NLDS in a peaceful slumber, the Braves finally woke up and joined the party the Phillies were in the midst of dominating.