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Thursday, October 29, 2009

Now that’s a game story

Those of you who recall an era when game strories weren't mere regurgitations of the box score will enjoy Josh Levin's game story over at Slate:

On this night, the slim Phillie's casual brilliance outshines the grunting effort of his hefty ex-Indians teammate CC Sabathia. Despite a recurrent inability to spot his pitches, the Yankees starter kept every Phillie off the scoreboard excepting the brilliant, lefty-hitting second baseman Chase Utley. Down to his last strike in each of his first three plate appearances, Utley coaxed a walk and yanked two solo home runs. Utley's first shot comes with his left hand off the bat, a looping parabola that drops over Yankee Stadium's short right field porch. The second, which extends the Phillies' lead to 2-0, gets half as high off the ground and travels seemingly twice as far to deep right-center, leaving grunts and gasps in its wake.


Posted by Craig Calcaterra at 9:50am


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YankeesfanLen said...

Since this is grammar day at ShysterBall, he shouldn’t have used variations of “brilliant” and “grunt” twice, maybe not grunt at all.  No thesaurus available at NYS?

Posted 10/29  at  10:07 AM
John_Michael said...

Sentence 1: night vs. outshines & slim vs. hefty
Sentence 3: coaxed vs. yanked & last vs. first & walk vs. runs
Sentence 4: left hand vs. right field
Sentence 5: half as high vs. twice as far

Overplaying the dualaties? One can’t be sure.

Posted 10/29  at  10:20 AM
John_Michael said...

edit dualities

Posted 10/29  at  10:21 AM
Rob² said...

Not to be picky, but those are edits for style, not grammar.

Posted 10/29  at  10:30 AM
Aaron Moreno said...

Seems to recalling The Mick with the one-handed bomb.

Posted 10/29  at  10:54 AM
Stuart said...

What, he couldn’t work in “gonfalon”?

Posted 10/29  at  11:40 AM
Jay said...

This is the first baseball-related article I’ve come across that uses the word “grunt” twice with nary a reference to David Eckstein OR Darin Erstad.

Posted 10/29  at  11:56 AM
Hojo said...

Somewhere, in whatever plane of existence that exists beyond the mortal realm, Grantland Rice just smiled.

Posted 10/29  at  01:13 PM
umpty said...

dan daniel, fred leib, and damon runyon raise a schooner of ruppert’s brew to young mr levin.

Posted 10/29  at  03:17 PM
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