Baseball Is for the Losers

Baseball culminates every year in the sinking light of autumn evenings, crisp weather that excites the heart and offers clarity on the latest long season. This has been a signal year not so much because of the superiority of any one team but because of the individual feats of Aaron Judge and Juan Soto, as well as of Shohei Ohtani and Mookie Betts, surpassing players deployed in potent pairs at the tops of the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers lineups.