“How can you not be romantic about baseball?”

It’s a quote that has existed for quite some time with unclear origins. It was popularized by the book and movie “Moneyball,” but it’s generally accepted that it was not its origin. Wherever it came from, it’s as powerful as it is cliche.

It invokes the emotion, passion and love of the sport. It’s used to describe how the seemingly mundane moments have such a deeper meaning. It’s for when Freddie Freeman walks off a World Series game and rekindles the memories of Kirk Gibson. It’s for when Shohei Ohtani and Mike Trout, the two greatest players in the game, are squaring off with the World Baseball Classic on the line.

On Thurday, the Lakers had a moment worthy of the phrase.

On the surface, Rui Hachimura’s buzzer-beating 3-pointer is already

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