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cknox0723 · 06-24-2005, 09:05 AM

with two outs in the top of the ninth, light-hitting shortstop dave berg makes contact with one of jesse crain's molten fastballs and the little white sphere flies off toward the left-center field gap. berg ends up with two bags. but pinch-hitter scott thorman grounds to short, and toronto can't add to their three-run lead.

but who cares about that? eric knott, left-handed unproven closer, comes on and all looks well. high-priced offseason acquisition carlos lee flies out. michael cuddyer draws a walk, but brad fullmer hits another fly ball out to the right-center field area. the jays have a three-run lead and are one out away from their eighth win of the year. they couldn't possibly...could they???

pinch-hitter casey mcgehee, a rule 5 pick last year, keeps the game alive with a looper over short. and then the left-hander knott throws one really lousy pitch. the cliché in that situation is that he lost his focus. what is that? but, realistically, he was close enough to that post-game spread that maybe he did taste the baked ziti and chicken a la king.

or maybe he's just not that good. either way, eric byrnes gets a fastball out and up and fires his hips and whacks the pitch to the opposite field, down toward the corner and it's carrying and carrying and it looks like it might get Out of the Park and then it's taking a nosedive toward the warning track. the ball strikes the dirt, seemingly at a thousand miles an hour, caroms up off the wall and bounces ten feet in the air, the force and angle of impact being such that the ball is just hanging up there, and michael restovich is waiting, but there's nothing he can do. finally the ball comes down, but by that time, byrnes is tearing around second, and casey mcgehee's just about to touch home, the second of two baserunners to tap the holy pentagon. byrnes slides into third needlessly as the relay comes in from the outfield -- scrappy white guy, got to get the uniform dirty, right? -- and the baggy dome's shaking from all the cheering and stomping and whistling. it's a one-run game and the tying run's at the third.

but there's also two outs.

06-24-2005, 09:05 AM	#465
cknox0723 All Star Starter Join Date: May 2003 Location: NJ Posts: 1,957	look! it's o-v-e-... with two outs in the top of the ninth, light-hitting shortstop dave berg makes contact with one of jesse crain's molten fastballs and the little white sphere flies off toward the left-center field gap. berg ends up with two bags. but pinch-hitter scott thorman grounds to short, and toronto can't add to their three-run lead. but who cares about that? eric knott, left-handed unproven closer, comes on and all looks well. high-priced offseason acquisition carlos lee flies out. michael cuddyer draws a walk, but brad fullmer hits another fly ball out to the right-center field area. the jays have a three-run lead and are one out away from their eighth win of the year. they couldn't possibly...could they??? pinch-hitter casey mcgehee, a rule 5 pick last year, keeps the game alive with a looper over short. and then the left-hander knott throws one really lousy pitch. the cliché in that situation is that he lost his focus. what is that? but, realistically, he was close enough to that post-game spread that maybe he did taste the baked ziti and chicken a la king. or maybe he's just not that good. either way, eric byrnes gets a fastball out and up and fires his hips and whacks the pitch to the opposite field, down toward the corner and it's carrying and carrying and it looks like it might get Out of the Park and then it's taking a nosedive toward the warning track. the ball strikes the dirt, seemingly at a thousand miles an hour, caroms up off the wall and bounces ten feet in the air, the force and angle of impact being such that the ball is just hanging up there, and michael restovich is waiting, but there's nothing he can do. finally the ball comes down, but by that time, byrnes is tearing around second, and casey mcgehee's just about to touch home, the second of two baserunners to tap the holy pentagon. byrnes slides into third needlessly as the relay comes in from the outfield -- scrappy white guy, got to get the uniform dirty, right? -- and the baggy dome's shaking from all the cheering and stomping and whistling. it's a one-run game and the tying run's at the third. but there's also two outs.