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...Lefty-Righty, Righty-Lefty. Baseball managers make almost half their relief decisions in order to get a right-handed pitcher facing a right-handed batter or lefty facing a lefty, while the team at bat tries to get a righty to face a lefty...
...first two strikes, and meanwhile spends precious money imprisoning men past middle age, after most of them have been pacified by ebbing testosterone, free of charge. Of course, on the positive side, the law does have a catchy title. (How would the crime bill read if baseball allowed each batter five strikes...
Sean Berry came up for Montreal, bases empty. The calculations zinged through my head: batter righty; pitcher lefty; me on the first base side; open aisle on the right; tiny, insignificant brother on the left; room behind if needed. I had flippantly remarked two innings earlier that were I to catch a foul ball today, I could die a happy man--now, as always, I prepared myself for such an eventuality, and all the geometry favored my location...
...important titles; he is a photographer living for the moment with few possessions. He -- representing the people -- yearns for her, despite having found a young lover. She -- the government -- is enticed by a young love but rejects him. In the end, he is alone, using a pickax to batter at the wall. On the other side, she pulls back her possessions, trying to protect her way of life. "Won't you help me?" he yells...
...with a delightful idiosyncrasy. In 1919 Wahconah was laid out with day baseball in mind. Home plate faces west -- precisely the wrong direction for Mets games that now begin at 7 p.m. As the sun slips toward the horizon, it slides into the line of sight between pitcher and batter. This is the only instance in organized baseball when an umpire can be accused, without rebuttal, of being blind. But more to the point, the batter too is blinded. At that juncture the umpire decrees a sun delay, and sunny songs issue forth from the park's loudspeakers. The game...