It was a scene made for a Hollywood movie if Hollywood producers wouldn't reject it for being too corny.
The slumping Sioux Falls Canaries, losers of seven of their last nine games, had not mustered one hit all night — and hadn't scored one run the previous 19 innings — and were down to their final strike in a full count with two outs in the 11th inning.
The air was filled with dark, disturbed, disappointed, distraught, downtrodden, and most of all desperate tension.
One crack of the bat changed everything.
Leave it to the American Association of Professional Baseball's all-time home run king Jabari Henry to blast a hooking moon shot that was on line for the right field foul poll. Could it stay fair to give the Birds their only hit all evening and as epic and improbable a victory any baseball purist could imagine?
It could. The latest "Bari Bomb" at The Birdcage instantly ignited the hearty hundreds of fans who waited all night to see if the Birds would be on the wrong end of history.
Instead, Henry made uncommon history. It'd be considered a miracle if came off the bat of almost anyone else.
Happy Hour host John Gaskins, who was there, gives his up-close commentary and surmises what this could do for the rest of the Canaries regular season run — 24 games remaining until the Sept. 1 finale — to a third straight playoff berth.
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