Yesterday afternoon was north of 100 degrees here in NorCal. Too hot to go outside, but never too hot for a lot of baseball consumption on the tube. Over the course of several hours I watched all or parts of seven different games. Here’s what happens on a lazy Sunday when you couple baseball binge-watching with a pen and a blank sheet of paper.
Let’s All Play Ball
Hey batter-batter, how ’bout some chatter
pastime, pickle, Posey, pepper
Catfish, Puig, Bench…Bob Knepper
Vin and Red, Mookie, Knucksie
Tinker to Evers, brushback, Dusty
Monument Park, Brooks, Dave Giusti
Le Grand Orange — he’s Rusty, too
Lefty, Pesky, Shea
Vida Blue
Crack of the bat, drag bunt, fungo
foul tip, Doc, Van Lingle Mungo
Marichal, Clemente, scroogie, Boys of Summer
Marvelous Marv, Casey, Stretch, sac fly — send the runner
Splendid Splinter, Joltin’ Joe, Garagiola, balk
Hank and Sadaharu Oh — caught looking, chalk
Veeck and Gaedel, paint the black, Big Train
yes, The Hawk
Run on anything — like girls are chasing you
Amazin’ Mets, Campy, Dodger Blue
hit and run, Dizzy Dean, Black Sox, Alou
Let’s play two
Billy Bucks, batter’s box, Sparky, Three-Finger Brown
Gashouse Gang, sunflower seeds, Scooter
batting crown
Connie Mack, Cracker Jack, fight at the batrack
Yogi
Wally Joyner, Bob Horner, Kiner’s Korner
Yoshii
Turn two, bad hop, Jose-Jose-Jose
Bosox, bleacher bums, foul pole, Say Hey
Take a strike, play at the plate, George Brett
Gaylord, of course
Ryan Express, Tom Terrific, tag up, Iron Horse
Cubbies and pinstripes, Chavez Ravine, 6-4 for the force
Fordham Flash, Big Klu, Honus, Cy and Cobb
Babe and Barry, Shoeless Joe, Goose
we wuz robbed
Choke up, last licks, Blue Moon, headfirst slide
can of corn, hit and run, hit by pitch inside
resin bag, twin bill, Jackie, give it a ride
Field of Dreams, The Natural and Pride of the Yankees
Eight Men Out, A League of their Own
Alvin Dark and Stanky
Rain delay, pennant race, hot stove, strike
Early Wynn, Rapid Robert, ride the pine, spike
Charlie Hustle, Pee Wee, Hoyt
Roadrunner Ralphie Garr
Fisk and Thurman, Orlando Cepeda
Tommy John and pine tar
Infield fly, batter’s out — check swing, kill the ump
Gates Brown, Mel Ott, spitball, toe the bump
Heater, splitter, circle change — slider and the hook
strike three, take a seat
put it in the books
