Sean McAdam's Magical Comeback Joins USA Baseball Team as 'The Magic Man' in World Series Final!

MIAMI — Imagine, for a moment, you are Roman Anthony, Red Sox wunderkind . Imagine that, at the age of 21, you are taking part in a best-on-best tournament, humbled to be part of a talent-laden roster and yet more than holding your own with the greatest players in the game, all together on the biggest stage. Imagine that you are now doing so in the ballpark at which you attended plenty of games as a boy, then a teenager, sitting in the stands and in awe of Giancarlo Stanton, Christian Yelich and other former Miami (nee: Florida) Marlins.

Imagine, too, that the last time the World Baseball Classic was held, it was staged here, at LoanDepot Park, and you attended with some other Red Sox prospects, all about to begin their professional careers. Imagine that, after not being initially selected to the Team USA roster, you were a late addition for an injured player and you’ve become a key member of the team. That team features superstars like Aaron Judge and Bryce Harper and Kyle Schwarber, and yet, you have fit right in.

And imagine that, with your team’s spot in the tournament on the line, in a win-or-go-home game, it is you — not Judge, not Harper, not Schwarber — who belts what turns out to be the game-winning homer. On a night when, across the country, the film industry celebrated its best and brightest, the storybook career of Roman Anthony continued to unfold. Except this wasn’t scripted or staged.

Hollywood would have rejected this storyline because it would seem too implausible, too hard to believe. But it really happened. It’s really happening to Roman Anthony, age 21, and starring in his own life story.