Some Things Are More Important Than History

Baseball|Some Things Are More Important Than History

He didn’t attraction that it was a no-hitter. He conscionable wanted nan Yankees to win.

More than 5 hours aft we arrived astatine Yankee Stadium, my 9-year-old son, Wes, had waited successful statement for an hr successful a rainstorm, collected his coveted (replica) 1998 Yankees World Series ring, talked maine into buying him a T-shirt, visited nan Gluten Free Grill twice, mourned nan season-ending wounded to Jasson Domínguez, shouted Aaron Judge truthful loudly that his sound was getting hoarse and brushed disconnected each azygous mention I made that Corbin Burnes, nan starter for nan Milwaukee Brewers, was throwing an unthinkable game.

While nan rainfall delayed Sunday’s crippled betwixt Milwaukee and nan Yankees only 15 minutes, nan soggy conditions persisted done nan early innings and Burnes, nan victor of nan National League Cy Young Award successful 2021, had nan Yankees baffled.

After 2 innings, I texted a Brewers instrumentality to opportunity I was worried nan Yankees would beryllium no-hit. He replied that Milwaukee didn’t person nan discourtesy for it to matter.

After 10 innings we some looked prophetic, arsenic it was a 0-0 necktie and nan Yankees had not managed a azygous deed disconnected Burnes aliases nan relievers Devin Williams and Abner Uribe.

But Wes, wearing his mitt and sitting successful nan 200 level for nan first time, didn’t attraction astir nan humanities value of nan moment. When I tried to explicate nan rarity of what we were seeing — that successful nan hundreds and hundreds of games I’d attended, arsenic a newsman and arsenic a fan, that I’d ne'er seen a no-hitter successful personification — he shrugged and said he conscionable wanted nan Yankees to win.

After astir 20 years of watching nan crippled professionally, worrying a batch astir deadlines and what nan game’s consequence would mean for either team, it was an unthinkable reminder of what it intends to beryllium a instrumentality supra each else.