It won’t be so awful in three months. Another pitcher will climb out of the minor leagues, trading $5 lunches for far better options. He will startle with his curve, his cutter or his sinker. We may know him now….
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He throws curveballs that buckle knees, and stands on the mound when no one else will do. Because he plays in the National League, he stands at the plate every nine batters. And sometimes he smacks a hit into right…
This one walked to the plate and knocked mud off his shoes, like he’d been digging for potatoes all afternoon and hadn’t changed yet. He didn’t care to wait under the lights for a minute longer. So he swung on…
Not much doing through two against Milwaukee. St. Louis left men standing on bases instead of running between them. And second baseman Kolten Wong made his third error in three games. Mike Fiers’ pitch count started to worry, but his…
In the bottom of the 8th, Jon Jay walked to the plate. He wore blue and red striped socks that stretched up his calf, with baggy pants cinched below his knee. He took his stance one, two times. On the…