10/10/2025
Bottom of the 11th, tension thick enough to chew, a rookie at the plate who’s been struggling, everyone half-holding their breath — and then crack! Not the clean pop of a perfect hit, but that gritty, splintering sound of a broken bat that somehow becomes destiny.
Kim breaks for home — head down, legs pumping — the pitcher panics, the throw sails, and in that chaos, victory is born. Not from perfection, but from pressure. From heart. From the game finding its hero in the unlikeliest place.
You could feel that stadium explode — not just in noise, but in relief. Pages clutching half a bat, Kim sliding home, the dugout pouring out like a tidal wave. It’s baseball’s magic distilled into one instant.
Dodgers on their way to the NLCS
Dramatic baseball, what we live for
