Walk-offs, terrific plays highlight wild Wednesday

Did you see Peter Bourjos’ speed down the first-base line, denying David Wright of a game-saving play? Or Tyler Saladino’s diving tag on Mike Trout’s shoulder, a nano-second before Trout’s outstretched arm reached second base?

How about Randal Grichuk’s vertical leap at the outfield wall, just enough to rob Anthony Rizzo of a home run? Did you hear about Eugenio Suarez’s eyesight and alertness?

Some days’ games turn on the tiniest of margins, and Wednesday was certainly one of those.

We love talking about ways to make baseball better, but it always seems to get the last laugh. It’s pretty perfect the way it is, and all you had to do was pay attention to the drama taking place all around the Major Leagues to see the latest demonstration.

There were eight one-run games, including two that went to extra innings. Another extra-inning game would wind up among three games decided by two runs. And in the last game of the night, the Giants’ Madison Bumgarner and the D-backs’ Zack Greinke dueled in a game that was scoreless until Welington Castillo’s homer in the seventh inning.

Consider the drama that rolled across our television screens, laptops and smart phones:

REDS 6, ROCKIES 5

After the Rockies scored three runs in the eighth to tie the score, the Reds won it on a ninth-inning single by catcher Tucker Barnhart. He lined it through a five-man infield, but the real drama came earlier — both when Barnhart took advantage of a good hop off the bricks behind home plate at Great American Ball Park to trap Mark Reynolds off third and escape the eighth inning, and when Suarez noticed Dustin Garneau missed third base as he apparently scored in the seventh frame. Garneau still insists he stepped on the base, but he was called out after an appeal and a video review.

WHITE SOX 2, ANGELS 1

Seven scoreless innings from Chris Sale was the story of the …

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