NEW YORK -- The Pirates' 3-2 victory over the Mets on this steamy Friday night at Citi Field finished in the 10th inning, thanks to more clutch from Gregory Polanco and what's maybe the eleventy-billionth save in a row for Mark Melancon.
Take a course in Sports Writing 101, and you learn early to start at the end. So there. I did.
But part of what makes baseball beautiful when it's played well, especially by both sides, is that it's more akin to molecular movement than one or two seismic moments.
And the Pirates -- go ahead, sky-write it -- played really well.
For the first time in maybe a month, they put together all the pieces. It wasn't the bats bailing out the arms, or vice versa. It wasn't the bats and the arms having to bail out the gloves.
"It was just a good, solid game for us," Chris Stewart was saying as the last man out of the visiting clubhouse. "Go ahead and write that down: Good, solid game."
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