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cknox0723 · 08-29-2006, 08:27 PM

Buehrle comes out firing. He gets ahead of Luis Castillo, and then he really digs the leadoff man in deep with an untouchable 1-1 slider, and then he finishes him off with another sharp breaking pitch. Grounding to third base is a victory for Castillo. One gone. We can do this.

Or...no. Juan Pierre does good with an 0-1 fastball that catches too much of the plate, stinging it over shorstop for a solid single. Suddenly his 66-steal speed is a worry, the powerful Adam Dunn is at the plate, and Buehrle misses with his first pitch and then his second. The too-selective Dunn takes a decent fastball for strike one and also backs off on a sharp 2-1 slider that evens the count. Buehrle goes with a 2-2 change of pace, and Dunn is out in front of it, hitting one on the ground to the right side.

"Gumby" Kennedy, the second base wizard, the Gold Glove candidate, the elastic package of computer bytes, muffs it. Maybe it's Dunn's oxlike biceps that give some juice to even his less than ordinary hits, or maybe we just don't belong. Ichiro! steps in, poised to put us in a hole that we'll never get out of...and Buehrle pumps in strike one and strike two faster than Ichiro! can uncoil his whiplike swing. The Kagusai Kid makes things interesting, as always, by fouling off a few pitches, but the inauspicious start to his at-bat led to an inauspicious end, as he does nothing with a 1-2, 94 mile an hour two-seam fastball except pop it up, sky high and about twelve feet in front of home plate. "Pokey" Vazquez gloves it and maybe things aren't over yet.

The incomparable Buehrle gets ahead of shorstop Aurilia with one strike and then another, doesn't stop there and throws a hellacious 0-2 fastball on the outside corner. Aurilia pops that one up. 66-steal man Juan Pierre speed is all for naught as Frank Catalanotto squeezes out number three some sixty-five feet up the first-base line.

Mark Buehrle, infield pop-up artist extraordinaire.

08-29-2006, 08:27 PM	#856
cknox0723 All Star Starter Join Date: May 2003 Location: NJ Posts: 1,957	richest man in the world Buehrle comes out firing. He gets ahead of Luis Castillo, and then he really digs the leadoff man in deep with an untouchable 1-1 slider, and then he finishes him off with another sharp breaking pitch. Grounding to third base is a victory for Castillo. One gone. We can do this. Or...no. Juan Pierre does good with an 0-1 fastball that catches too much of the plate, stinging it over shorstop for a solid single. Suddenly his 66-steal speed is a worry, the powerful Adam Dunn is at the plate, and Buehrle misses with his first pitch and then his second. The too-selective Dunn takes a decent fastball for strike one and also backs off on a sharp 2-1 slider that evens the count. Buehrle goes with a 2-2 change of pace, and Dunn is out in front of it, hitting one on the ground to the right side. "Gumby" Kennedy, the second base wizard, the Gold Glove candidate, the elastic package of computer bytes, muffs it. Maybe it's Dunn's oxlike biceps that give some juice to even his less than ordinary hits, or maybe we just don't belong. Ichiro! steps in, poised to put us in a hole that we'll never get out of...and Buehrle pumps in strike one and strike two faster than Ichiro! can uncoil his whiplike swing. The Kagusai Kid makes things interesting, as always, by fouling off a few pitches, but the inauspicious start to his at-bat led to an inauspicious end, as he does nothing with a 1-2, 94 mile an hour two-seam fastball except pop it up, sky high and about twelve feet in front of home plate. "Pokey" Vazquez gloves it and maybe things aren't over yet. The incomparable Buehrle gets ahead of shorstop Aurilia with one strike and then another, doesn't stop there and throws a hellacious 0-2 fastball on the outside corner. Aurilia pops that one up. 66-steal man Juan Pierre speed is all for naught as Frank Catalanotto squeezes out number three some sixty-five feet up the first-base line. Mark Buehrle, infield pop-up artist extraordinaire.