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...Francisco Giants and St. Louis Cardinals, but Professor of Statistics Carl N. Morris has already stopped watching. Tucked onto his neon orange clipboard is a receipt-sized table packed with an arcane set of numbers the announcers have probably never seen: the average number of runs per inning major league baseball teams scored in 2001 in each of 24 possible situations, ranging from bases empty and 0 out to bases loaded...
...Series time, you can’t help but miss them. They provide drama, great baseball and a perennial villain. The World Series is much more interesting when there is an “Underdog meets Evil Empire” storyline. Last year’s Series featured ninth inning home runs and game-winning hits. This year’s featured a three-and-a-half-year- old boy running onto the field when he shouldn’t have. Yes, the games were often exciting, but the most indelible image of this year’s playoffs...
...another Giant, Willie McCovey. Opponents walk Bonds in situations where no other hitter would get a free pass. In the National League Championship Series, St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa, one of baseball's acknowledged brains, nearly burned out his laptop trying to neutralize Bonds. In the eighth inning of the series' fourth game, he put Bonds on first with no one on base and the score tied 2-2. The next batter, catcher Benito Santiago, hit a home run that won the game. Bonds' presence destroyed the Cardinals in that contest...
Despite the media hype and human-interest stories, the play on the field has been elegant and thrilling. The Series will see its share of late-inning rallies. Pitchers working deep into the game. Unlikely heroes. Leadoff hitters that choke up and bunt. Hard-throwing relievers...
...America the Beautiful” in a stumbling meter. It is a song that was played ad nauseum in the weeks after Sept. 11—a song that was substituted for “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” during the seventh inning stretch of professional baseball games. It was easier than thinking of a new way to express our grief after all of this time, and easier than remaining silent, to let Katherine Lee Bates speak for us yet again...