"This is only the second time a left-handed hitter struck out on the 5th pitch thrown by a player whose mother's name was Samantha during a full moon." Not everything that happened is 'historical'. Presenting things as such obfuscates history.
It is. And to things people are attracted to (like baseball) it's mostly harmless. But when news commentators do it, they stretch attention too thin. "If your model predicts everything it predicts nothing"