There's something extra special about baseball, at its most magical, when it's played in a place like Cleveland, in a ballpark that doesn't cost an arm and a leg to get into.
This is a place where hearts can still be captured by the little guy, the misfit, the players and the team who no one expected to be here on the 23rd of September.
But there the Guardians were, final out settled into Jose Ramirez's glove (who else?), a smile on the superstar's face and on the rest of the 30,000 people in the building, too.
"It’s a Tuesday. It’s a work night. It’s a school night. And we had this place popping," Steven Kwan told Guardians reporter Andre Knott after the game.
First place.
How did they get here?
Here, to be specific: Tied atop the AL Central with the Detroit Tigers, and having locked up the tiebreaker. As long as the Guardians play even with the Tigers the last five games of the regular season, they'll win the division.
They were 12.5 games back on Aug. 25. Less than a month later, here.
It's one of those inexplicable runs that seem to only happen in baseball, where every hit drops, every opposing liner finds a glove, and every firm fastball finds the corner.
There really is a magical, mystical, almost religious quality to this game when a team gets a run like the Guardians are on now.
What else to explain the most improbable of improbabilities? If someone needs proof of the divine, just tell them to look at what these Guardians have done.
The work isn't done, of course. Cleveland has to close strong this week to ensure all these magnificent moments don't go to waste.
But at this point, a team makes believers of everyone in the sacred space that is a ballpark.
No one in Cleveland on Tuesday night believed they could lose. Not a soul.
Not even when the ace of all aces, Tarik Skubal, was mowing down the lineup.
All it took was a Steven Kwan bunt hit to ignite a three-run inning in which the ball never left the infield.
Sometimes, there are no logical explanations.
Sometimes, baseball's beauty is beyond our comprehension.
Sometimes, a ballclub fits its city, and a city fits its ballclub, just right.
If you're just showing up to this Guardians team, stay a while. There's nothing else like baseball played the way this Cleveland bunch is playing it right now.
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