Yankees radio call, depressed Royals call of Cody Bellinger game-saving catch are incredible

The New York Yankees ended a sweep over the Kansas City Royals in emphatic fashion on Wednesday, nailing it down with a moment that turned home radio announcer Dave Sims into a triumphant proclaimer, and the road booth into the Villanova piccolo girl.

Cody Bellinger's spectacular diving catch (while stumbling) on a 2-1 liner from MJ Melendez wrapped up the baseball game with an exclamation point. Please ignore the 95% catch probability. That doesn't account for the reality of his footing or the gravity of the moment. The catch was great. And the calls were immaculate.

Dave Sims' call will live in 2025 Yankees iconography; while it might still be strange not to hear John Sterling's win warble as Frank Sinatra plays in the background, Sims' emotion completely matched the moment.

"Belli saved his bacon!" Sims intones, as he stifles a chuckle while thinking about what it might feel like to be Fernando Cruz in a moment like this.

Dave Sims' radio call of Yankees' game-saving Cody Bellinger catch is amazing (and so is depressed KC Royals' reaction)

Meanwhile, in the other booth ... like Ralph Wiggum, you can almost pinpoint the moment where the Royals broadcaster's heart snaps in half. I prefer the Dave Sims call, but I can totally understand why a fan might choo-choo-choose this one.

Listen to Ryan LeFebvre's emotions rise as the MJ Melendez liner appears to be hooking away from the Yankees' right fielder towards the grass, only for the whole thing to culminate in a flattened, "It's gonna be a DIVE and a catch, by Bellinger in right."

"Well, he got the hanger," the Royals booth concluded glumly as the crowd swelled around them. Think the play-by-play man and Rex Hudler wish Juan Soto had been in right field for that particular moment?

Instead, Kansas City got back-to-back-to-back'd and Belli-to-Belli'd to end a tighter-than-the-final-result-makes-it-seem playoff rematch in the Bronx. The Royals have no reason to hang their heads after this three-game set, but ... they probably will anyway. Both Melendez and Bellinger entered the series royally struggling, with Melendez batting under .100 and Bellinger battling a bad back (and bad wings). Fittingly, Melendez went off with a homer and hard contact on Tuesday, and Bellinger roped a RBI double Wednesday before they found themselves forever intertwined on the final play.

Baseball can be beautiful. It can also be anguish-filled. And two booths, separated by a single panel, provided us with a little dash of both on Wednesday night.