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“Holy cow! Holy cow! Would ya believe this one?!”
So the Kansas City Scouts go out to Utah—Utah!—and they just start swingin’ right away! First inning, boom! Kevin Dineen—nice little ballplayer, I’ll tell ya—bang! two-run homer! Holy cow, before you even sit down with your cannoli, it’s 2-nothing!
And lemme tell ya something—this Dineen, he was everywhere! Three hits, drivin’ in runs, walkin’, scorin’—he’s doin’ everything but sellin’ peanuts in the stands! That’s what I used to say—if you can hit, you play!
Now the Utah Mammoth, they’re hangin’ around a little bit. Fourth inning, they get a couple runs—nice triple, little excitement, you say “hey, we got a ballgame!” Then in the fifth—holy cow!—Macias hits one out, and it’s tied! 3-3! Now you’re thinkin’, “Uh oh, here we go!”
But these Scouts—lemme tell ya—they don’t panic! No sir! Sixth inning, they scratch one across, take the lead back. Then in the seventh—this is the big one—they just open it up! Singles, triples, everybody hittin’! Squillino with a triple—try sayin’ that three times fast!—and Dineen knocks another one in!
Before you know it, it’s 6-3, then 7-3, and that’s the ballgame!
Pitchin’? Not bad! Gedaliah hangs in there, gives ‘em what they need, then the bullpen—shuts the door! That’s what you gotta do in October, ya gotta shut the door!
And now—holy cow!—the Scouts are up 3 games to 1! They go back home to Kansas City, and they got a chance to wrap the whole thing up! You can smell it! You can taste it! It’s like a good plate of pasta!
And I’ll tell ya—if Dineen keeps hittin’ like this? Forget about it! This thing’s over!
Holy cow!
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