That’s what any Hollywood producer would say if you presented him or her with a script that matched the plot of the Dodgers’ last home game this season, played today in Los Angeles.

First: it was the last home game the team’s beloved broadcaster is ever going to call. After 67 years of doing play-by-play going all the way back to its days in Brooklyn, Vin Scully announced earlier this year he planned to retire at the end of the season. Up until 2015 he traveled and called all the team’s games west of the Rocky Mountains, but he scaled back to just California games last year and this. Since the team ends this season on the road in San Francisco, the possibility existed that today would be the last game he ever did. However, he said a week or two ago that he would go up to San Francisco to do the last three games of the season there. Still, it’s the last home game and the last time the LA fans would get to see him in the press box. It was going to be emotional.

Second, the Dodgers entered the game needing any combination of Dodgers wins and Giants losses that added up to one to clinch the division title: they would have fewer games left to play than their closest contender was behind. The Dodgers started the day seven games ahead of the Giants with seven games to play. Even if both teams won the Giants would be seven behind with only six left to play and the Dodgers would be uncatchable. So there was some additional drama in that.

Third, every team wants to clinch a title at home in front of its own fans and wants to celebrate in its own clubhouse. It’s not the same if you do it on the road and go back to your hotel room after the champagne has been sprayed around. That added incentive to do it today.

With all that in mind, then, the Dodgers fell behind 2-0 in the third inning, got one run back in the bottom of that inning, tied the game in the bottom of the seventh, watched as their All-Star reliever gave up only his fourth home run of the season in the top of the ninth to let the Rockies go ahead 3-2, and then saw their Rookie of the Year and MVP candidate Corey Seager blast a home run into the right-field bullpen in the bottom of the ninth to tie the game with two outs. After an uneventful top of the tenth inning, Charlie Culberson, one of the least-heralded players on the team, stepped up to the plate with two outs and hit his first home run of the season into the left-field bullpen to win the game in dramatic fashion.

Then Vin Scully addressed the crowd and played a recording of him singing “The Wind Beneath My Wings to his wife: