"A BUNT! THEY LISTENED TO ME!" Last night, John Sterling was vindicated

I cannot recall The Master yelling so joyously about "A HIGH POP! A HIGH HIGH POP!" as he did last night, calling the last moment of the Yankee victory, then following with an estimated 10.00- second WinWarble, a vocalization that surely shook the Fenway press box. 

Just minutes before, Isiah Kiner-Falefa had laid down a perfect bunt, scoring the go-ahead (and, eventually, winning) run, validating John Sterling's life as the one true, faithful, legendary, fullhearted voice of the New York Yankees. 

With some soccer game on YES, I listened last night sitting on a cold upstate hillside, under a blazing super moon and some of the most brazen shooting stars I've ever witnessed - to John & Suzyn's sound track. I had made peace with another Yankee loss, (our seemingly endless losing streak since the Crashman trade deadline event known as BaderBeeter,)  when the least likely player to go deep - shades of Bucky Dent? - somehow came through. "Isiah Kiner-Fuckin'-Falefa?" Fine with me. If the Yankees never win another game this season, I'll still have last night, under the astral canape, when IKF laid down the perfect bunt, just as The Master had suggested. For once, John Sterling had managed. And he snapped the losing streak.  

Some other Sterling takeaways: 

1. Like a million other voices across the Yankiverse, John was all-in on Clay Holmes sitting out the ninth. But he questioned the wisdom of Aroldis entering in the seventh, especially after The Human Waterfall couldn't seem to throw strikes. John could not get over Bogaerts' baserunning idiocy - an attempted steal of third - which allowed Chapman, in full El Chapo Meltdown Mode, to escape the inning.

2. John marveled at IKF's snare of a bounced throw to second base, which effectively saved the Yankees from their second straight blown lead in the ninth. In her on-field "Star of the Game" interview, Suzyn could not hide her emotions, jubilantly yelling questions at IKF, who struggled just to get a word in. 

Look... I'm saying  what you already know, but as we hit the 2022 home stretch, we must not overlook the cold reality that - love 'em or hate 'em - John & Suzyn won't be here forever. Don't miss out. 

And last night, amid the tumult, John even took a moment to remind his beloved acolyte that, whoever said you can't predict baseball, that guy was right. And damn, under those stars, at least for one endless night, he always will be.