As long as baseball has existed, there have been baseball writers.
But as long as there have been words in the English language to be written about baseball, there has never been a game like this.
How do words, mere combinations of letters, describe the most epic sporting event ever contested?
How do words, just conjoining sounds, make any sense out of what we just witnessed?
The Los Angeles Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays just completed the best game in the history of baseball.
The highest of stakes, World Series Game 3.
The most never-ending of ballgames, 18 innings.
It has never been better than this.
This was a baseball game so long that the story could be written, over and over again.
There were future Hall of Famers delivering their future Hall of Fame moments.
Shohei Ohtani homered twice, doubled twice and walked five times.
Clayton Kershaw faced just one batter, with the bases loaded and two outs in the 12th, and escaped a 3-2 count with a groundout to keep the game going.
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There were journeymen giving the performances of their life. Eric Lauer out of the Toronto bullpen, and Will Klein out of the Dodgers bullpen, will never have another night like this.
There were more flyball outs to the centerfield warning track in a tie game in the bottom half of extra innings than you've ever seen in your life. Blue Jays centerfielder Daulton Varsho tracked down every one.
Shoot, the game was started by Max Scherzer, a future Hall of Famer in his own right. Was that really this same game?
And then there was the ending.
One of the most clutch hitters in the history of the sport, Freddie Freeman, in the bottom of the 18th inning.
He had a walk-off grand slam in last year's World Series.
This time, there was nobody on base, but there didn't need to be.
Freeman got a pitch he liked over the heart of the plate, drove it to dead center, and this time, the ball didn't fall short.
It flew beyond the fence, a final beacon in the night on the greatest canvas in baseball history.
"This game was incredible," Freeman said on Fox afterward.
Those words sell it well short, but all the same, they sum it up just right. Freddie wrote the ending to the greatest baseball story ever told.
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