There’s really not much to say.

It’s no secret that I have long considered Derek Jeter an overrated player (Cooperstown-worthy, of course, but hardly inner-circle) and been mortified by the season-long Kool-Aid show tributes that would have embarrassed even Eva Peron, but it would have been impossible not to crack a smile for the 20-year veteran last night.

Every future Hall of Famer deserves to say good-bye on a high note and Jeter, who endured a very un-Captain-like season at the plate, is no exception. So just as a 42-year-old Teddy Ballgame fittingly hit a big-fly in his final plate appearance at Fenway Park in 1960, a 40-year-old Jeter used his patented inside-out swing one last time at a packed Yankee Stadium in the ninth inning of a tie game, and swatted a walk-off single.

And while the final score means little in the standings to either the Yankees or the Orioles – the Yankees won’t experience the postseason for the second consecutive year while the division-winning Orioles are October-bound – to the fans who came to watch their hero it was Game Four of the 2001 World Series all over again.

With one swing of the bat, Jeter leaves the game the right way.