Because in baseball, like life, sometimes Dumb Luck works out the way you’d want it to. It’s a common baseball-writing cliché that “baseball is like life.” It generally goes like this: “Baseball, like life, reminds us of the ups and downs we all experience. It has the placid rhythm of summer evenings, the dreams of youth and realities of aging. It has moments of great triumph and great failure, yet above it all, the game remains; ever-changing, ever the same.” Maybe that’s some people’s lives. It sure as heck ain’t mine. Baseball is like my life. It’s a mess. It’s…