Does a game in June mean less if the team doesn’t play in October? It is more pleasant to rake up leaves with a radio playing in the background. And it is nice to think that the whole world thinks…
Category: NL
He held his quad and yelled with pain. And then his teammate did, too. And the Cardinals lost both Matt Adams and Matt Holliday. Not to say they can’t make it up. Not to say they cannot score more than…
A year ago, he’d played his first major league game. He hit a home run. The fans yelled for more. He took off his helmet, and waved. He smiled. He would do it again: line a pitch over the right…
A pitcher tried to hit with a runner at third. The runner scraped his toe along the third baseline until his laces turned dusty. The man at home took a pitch, and took another one. He knocked mud off of…
The game was set to end as expected. Nothing complicated in a box score. No story to relay. A few hits; a home run. A young pitcher came back from injury. Another player got hurt. When it’s normal, it’s nice….
I had sales to capture, and coffee to sell, and naps to steal. (Sometimes I start my day at 4 am.) I didn’t feel like cooking. I rarely do. I wandered out. And missed my bus. And checked the score…
We cannot finish this game today. I know it’s not quite through. We’d play a dozen innings more If things were up to you. But we’ve played six innings, And another game’s beginning Tomorrow at some time. So today we’ll…
Randal Grichuk waited for his pitch. Five times, he prepared. Five times, he returned to the dugout. He didn’t hit a sinking drive, caught at the shoelaces by the left fielder. He didn’t hit a sharp ground ball, snared by…
The critic doesn’t count; however: Consider the St. Louis Cardinals against the Detroit Tigers. The game was 3-3 in the bottom of the seventh at Busch Stadium. Jason Heyward nearly homered down the right field line, just pulling the ball…
Matt Carpenter hit a ball to the fence. Had it been a chain-link fence, outfielder Michael Bourn could’ve scaled it and reached for the ball, retrieving it with the edge of his glove. Perhaps, if there was a swimming pool…