Baseball has a way of sneaking magic into the margins. The game can sit still for hours, pitch after pitch, moving at a snail’s pace, until — in the blink of an eye — something extraordinary unfolds ...

TAMPA — Off the crack of the bat, Gleyber Torres charged in from shortstop, fielding a slow chopper and firing a bullet toward first base all in one fluid motion. As the toss caromed off a plywood ...