There are moments when the instrument fails and the musician must become the music. On the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Arizona Diamondbacks' improbable 2001 World Series triumph, Dr. Jesse McGuire — the trumpeter whose playing had accompanied that championship run — stood at home plate before a sellout crowd and, when his trumpet gave out mid-anthem, simply began to sing. It was a quiet lesson in grace: that preparation, character, and decades of devotion cannot malfunction.