Baseball hates you. You might think baseball loves you, but no, if baseball is being kind to you, it’s only so that it can hurt you later. Look no further than Sunday’s Yankees-Red Sox game for evidence of this: The Yankees were looking like they were going to win a series against Boston and narrow the gap in the AL East, but, nope.
Watch a Yankees fan experience the joys and despair of baseball in just 41 seconds
Rafael Devers broke this dude with one swing of the bat.
This one Yankees fan recorded that “nope” and the hope that preceded it with a video on Twitter, and it is glorious if you are not a Yankees fan. Really, even if you are: This jump from joy and anticipation of greatness to despair that drags you back down to the reality of the game is one that every fan base knows.
The change in reaction from 18 seconds to 19 seconds is sports emotion at its sincerest.
For real, though, this fan had all the reason to believe this excitement would have a payoff! Rafael Devers is talented, but he’s also 20, and in a huge pressure situation. He’s facing Aroldis Chapman’s fireballs, and already down to his last strike. And, Devers is left-handed, which is normally not an affliction of any kind, but lefties had only hit one home run ever against Chapman.
Well, now they’ve hit two after a basically impossible, game-tying blast, and the faces in that video are a reminder of how baseball can still surprise and gut us at any time.
