Statistics, Probabilities, and a Reading of Sixteen-Inning Baseball

See, that's the weird thing about probability and chaos—and, by extension, baseball. There's always a chance, however small, to see something rare and special; to watch an electron tunnel through a barrier, or a particle burst into existence, or a player bat a home run off a position player nearly six hours after their game had begun. On any given night, by the nature of the beast, those .32 percent odds might just return a 1.

Bastion: Thermodynamics, Entropy, and the Physics of Fantasy

Now, where Bastion really comes in is in the second half of that law: the isolated system. If a process is kept in a vacuum, entirely alone, its entropy will only ever increase. However, we can decrease entropy locally by various methods—mainly by bringing in other sources from outside that system (like eating food, which our bodies then convert into other forms of energy). If you've played Bastion, you might now realize where I'm going.