Is the organist behind all these Diamondbacks wins?

SECTION 332, CHASE FIELD – It feels strange up here. And far too high, quite frankly, for someone who has a big problem with heights.

This isn’t a press box, it’s like the crow’s nest on the Titanic. And I know how that movie ended.

What the devil is a sportswriter doing this far away from his comfort zone at a Diamondbacks game? The free coffee and hot dogs are a couple decks below in the media lounge. What could possess someone to cover a ballgame from this forsaken purgatory of a place?

Glad you asked.

You see, if it weren’t for all of their comeback wins this young season – and the Diamondbacks just happen to be leading the major leagues with nine of them already – this team would be right where most of us thought it would be. Buried at the bottom of the National League West.

But these Rally-Backs keep finding ways to win, like Friday night when they erupted for nine runs in a wild eighth inning to club the Dodgers 13-5. So the challenge was to find the magical source of all these crazy comebacks.

The question has been put to the pitchers and the catchers. It’s been asked of the hitters and of the new manager, too. Nobody’s bothered asking D. Baxter the mascot, but that’s because the cat got his tongue and he doesn’t talk.

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I think I finally found the answer, however. It’s Bobby Freeman.

Bobby who? Hear me out.

Just like all the other comeback victories in this building so far in 2017, the latest rally started with the playing of the same three simple musical notes, courtesy of Freeman, the Diamondbacks’ longtime organist who sits up here high on his perch far above the Diamondbacks’ bullpen in left field.

What better way to get to the bottom of this than from the top and covering a Diamondbacks game while sitting next to Freeman and his keyboards and waiting for the magic to happen yet again? Freeman, after all, is the guy responsible for playing all the rally chants at these games.

Surely, up here in the sky is where it all starts. At Bobby Freeman’s fingertips. It has to be him.

“Well, I try to help,” Freeman said modestly as Saturday night’s game against the Dodgers got underway. “It’s really just about engaging the fans to continue with the winning flow.”

Undeterred by that humble and yet obvious company-line response, the quest would not be quashed. Freeman’s been doing this gig for 20 years now, and even he thinks there’s something special about this year’s club. They respond to rally cries. So maybe it is Freeman and his collection of little ditties that are the starting mechanism for all of these amazing come-from-behind celebrations.

“Hey, I like it. I like it,” said Tom Wilhelmsen, world traveler, free thinker and the ex-bartender otherwise known as a Diamondbacks relief pitcher. “Energy is a strong thing, man. Maybe that’s it.”

See, spending Saturday night high up here next to Freeman wasn’t such a bad idea. Uh, except Dodgers outfielder Enrique Hernandez opened the game with a leadoff home run that looked like it was headed straight for Freeman. But hey, that just sets the stage for another comeback, right Bobby?

“Exactly,” Freeman said. “This team has got it. They have got it. Trust me.”

Just as Arizona’s David Peralta gets ready to swing on a 3-1 count in the bottom of the first, Freeman says, “Watch this pitch!” Naturally, Peralta almost homers to straightaway center field, but settles for a double high off the wall.

Two batters later, Freeman whips up the crowd by playing “Charge!” and wouldn’t you know it, Jake Lamb rips a two-run home run to right. The Diamondbacks lead 2-1 and the comeback is on.

“See, right after ‘Charge!’ ” the keyboardist gushed proudly.

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Yasmany Tomas follows with a homer of his own, and Freeman is so giddy, he’s practically pounding on the keys like a madman. Later, in the fourth inning with the Diamondbacks clinging to a one-run lead, I dare Freeman to play “Free Bird” or something from the Stones. Just then, catcher Chris Herrmann belts a two-run homer for the Diamondbacks and Freeman wants to fist-bump me.

“Hey, tell him not to pump the brakes,” Wilhelmsen said. “When we get going on one of those long-inning rallies, tell him to keep it going. We can feel it. (The fans) can feel it.”

Freeman loves the message and on cue, he refuses to pump the brakes after Tomas blasts another home run for the Diamondbacks. Later, Wilhelmsen relieves starter Robbie Ray and Freeman welcomes the right-hander out of the bullpen by playing “Hey, Bartender.”

Another fist bump and it’s time to go. He’s been signing autographs all night between songs, and he’s about to be mobbed after playing “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.” The Diamondbacks are clinging to a one-run lead and before I leave, I tell Freeman that if they blow this comeback, it’s on his head and he better donate his organ to science.

“Never,” he says. “You’ve got to have faith.”

No, you’ve just got to have Bobby Freeman because as if on cue, the Diamondbacks scored three more runs in the bottom of the seventh, another two in the eighth, and walloped the Dodgers again, 11-5. Classic.

Reach McManaman at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @azbobbymac and listen to him live every Wednesday night between 7-9 on Fox Sports 910-AM on The Freaks with Kenny and Crash.