As hard as I've tried not to be a sports fan, I'm still a sports fan (and during the Super Bowl, I thought of Kipling's classic: "If you can treat triumph and disaster the same"...no one can do that).  

As for 4/4, if indeed all four were homers, the first two were longer than then second two, mainly because I agreed with you on the latter two (so they likely bounced off the wall just slightly above the outfielders' reach). 

Perhaps we like sports because, despite all the rules, the talent, the technology, luck so often prevails. And luck is related to the chaos theory in physics as we all try to be logical...well, how's that turning out?