Watch enough baseball, and you'll come to view at least a chunk of the game's results not as the perfect, elevated meritocracy sports are sometimes pitched as but as products of the same cosmic timing that shapes lives in the real world. More importantly, you'll come to view being in the right place at the right time not as a diminishing ding on an especially good or surprising team but as an almost necessary drop of the sublime that makes the whole thing feel meant to be.
Arizona Diamondbacks' Corbin Carroll attempts a steal against the Atlanta Braves during the first inning of a baseball game Sunday, June 4, 2023, in Phoenix. Watch enough baseball, and you’ll come to view at least a chunk of the game’s results not as the perfect, elevated meritocracy sports are sometimes pitched as but as products of the same cosmic timing that shapes lives in the real world.
The Arizona Diamondbacks have the good timing in 2023. At a juncture when several supposed National League contenders — the New York Mets, San Diego Padres and St. Louis Cardinals among them —, the D-backs have emerged as the biggest positive surprise. At 37-25, they have the NL's second-best record behind the Atlanta Braves, third-best run differential and fourth-best playoff odds, per FanGraphs .
Whether they can maintain their edge over the Dodgers in the division standings is hardly the point right now.
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