The walk-off is an all-encompassing team win…at least as far as the celebration is concerned.

Walk-offs usually means a reliever or two has made it into the game, so there’s a couple of us in the dugout. The rest of us are up, either warming up or focused on the game from our unique angle.

But the most exciting play in baseball rarely gets the love it deserves.

There’s a spot or two in every ball park where we as pitchers are attempting to ensure no ball gets hit there. It’s the gaps, the corners, the tricky corners that routinely get balls sucked into a black hole.

One only made bigger by the fact the crowd noise is rising exponentially while they flash back and forth between the fielder chasing down the ball…

And the man running around the bases at full speed.

It’s a thing of beauty for some, graceful glides between bases with slight angles taken to cut a corner and angle themselves better towards the next base.

But those aren’t mine or the fan’s true favorite.

It’s the big man rumbling around the bases, moving like a…a big man rumbling around the bases.

I mean, there really is nothing like it.