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Baseball. Blogging. Whenever.Thursday, October 29, 2009Now that’s a game storyThose 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 Comments
John_Michael said...
Sentence 1: night vs. outshines & slim vs. hefty 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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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?