It’s such a strange game, baseball. You really never know what a day at the yard has in store. John Sterling said a lot of memorable things in his 35-year run as the Yankees play-play man; the phrase that made all those T-shirts and sweatshirts and caps was this one: 

“That’s baseball, Suzyn.” 

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And you know: It really is. 

Sunday, for instance. You have a pitcher on one side with a lifetime record of 92-41 and a 3.03 ERA and a strong start on his dossier in the game that won his team the World Series championship. On the other you have a 24-year-old kid just two years out of East Carolina, just five out of Boyertown Area High School, 90 miles outside Philly, who’d thrown a total of 239 pitches in the major leagues before Sunday.