Javy Báez’s epic walk-off left Tigers radio buzzing and Red Sox call in shambles

If Javy Báez's walk-off homer against the Red Sox from Tuesday night is still replaying in your head, you're not alone in that. It would've been an epic moment for any player, but it was exponentially more important for Báez, who has been on a heater since he hit his first homer on April 30 and has been slowly but surely winning Tigers fans back after three years of digging himself into a deep hole.

All he needed to see was a single pitch, and the Tigers had overcome a two-run lead in the blink of an eye.

Jason Benetti, who pretty much never puts a foot wrong as the Tigers' TV play-by-play announcer, matched the moment as always. You could all but see him getting out of his chair while he screamed, "Deep left field! Again! Yes, Tigers win! Javy is unstoppable!"

Dan Dickerson on the radio call continued to prove that radio announcers can be wildly overlooked. Both his and Benetti's calls were raucous and tinged with the same disbelief that fans were feeling, but Dickerson's incredulous laugh was priceless. "You gotta be kidding me!" he exclaimed, "What a game!"

Tigers' joyful TV, radio calls of Javy Báez's walk-off homer are even better in contrast to devastated Red Sox's

Hilariously, the Red Sox's radio call was a perfectly poetic coin flip from Dickerson's. Will Flemming of WEEI, who prefaced during reliever Greg Weissert's windup, "scary, scary hitter right here," intoned gravely, "Báez drives one high and deep, you gotta be kidding. It's deep to left field and it is outta here. [...] The Javy Báez show, a soul-crusher for the Red Sox in Motown."

On the NESN feed, Will Middlebrooks was in the middle of theorizing how Weissert might sit Báez down, speaking to his well-documented penchant for chasing pitches way out of the zone, when Báez made contact. Middlebrooks was able to sound at least a little less exasperated than Flemming's, but his long silence after the homer was telling.

But color commentator Mike Monaco made a perfect point: "Two three-run homers by Javy Báez today. He won that game by himself for the Detroit Tigers."

With that home run, the Tigers cemented another series win and maintained their AL-best record, but it was undeniably the best moment of Báez's career as a Tiger. Even though fans had to wait over three years to see it, Báez not only becoming a meaningful contributor to this lineup but a key piece of it could change the complexion of this entire season, and maybe even the rest of his tenure in Detroit.