Rookie of the Year (2011)
“The loudspeaker droned the words above the shouts and yells of the fans.
It’s the suddenness of baseball that makes it such a game. A team goes rolling along with everything clicking, the pitcher throwing shutout ball, the fielders making brilliant stops and grabbing liners off the fences, the opposing batters retreating inning after inning to the dugout in disgust. Then with no warning the storm breaks. The club that is moving like a machine falls apart for no reason at all.
That afternoon, with Bones Hathaway pitching brilliantly, the club had a comfortable lead of two runs going into the seventh against the Boston Braves. Not a man had reached second base, and with two down in the first of the seventh Hathaway seemed to have a no-hitter in his grasp. Then the strain told; the effects of the long season began to show, and he weakened. A base on balls was followed by the first clean Boston hit of the game, a stinging drive over second base. The next batter dumped a short one in front... of the plate, and Jocko Klein, who was usually death on those balls, fumbled it momentarily.MoreLess
It’s the suddenness of baseball that makes it such a game. A team goes rolling along with everything clicking, the pitcher throwing shutout ball, the fielders making brilliant stops and grabbing liners off the fences, the opposing batters retreating inning after inning to the dugout in disgust. Then with no warning the storm breaks. The club that is moving like a machine falls apart for no reason at all.
That afternoon, with Bones Hathaway pitching brilliantly, the club had a comfortable lead of two runs going into the seventh against the Boston Braves. Not a man had reached second base, and with two down in the first of the seventh Hathaway seemed to have a no-hitter in his grasp. Then the strain told; the effects of the long season began to show, and he weakened. A base on balls was followed by the first clean Boston hit of the game, a stinging drive over second base. The next batter dumped a short one in front... of the plate, and Jocko Klein, who was usually death on those balls, fumbled it momentarily.MoreLess
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