We know baseball is a cruel game. It’s always a cruel game, has always been a cruel game. “Baseball,” Bart Giamatti once famously wrote, “breaks your heart. It’s designed to break your heart.” The …
“Baseball,” Bart Giamatti once famously wrote, “breaks your heart. It’s designed to break your heart.”
But the lessons are plentiful for a rookie, and he received another one Saturday night. Baseball — as Bob Murphy always said — is “a game of redeeming features.” It allows you immediate opportunity to make right your mistakes, to own up to your failures. But it doesn’t guarantee them to you. Oswaldo Cabrera is unable to catch Myles Straw’s single in the ninth inning of the Yankees’ 6-5 loss to the Guardians in Game of the ALDS.Two innings later, it was Cabrera’s time to homer, crushing a McKenzie four-seamer 409 feet over the right-field wall, giving the Yankees a 4-2 lead.
Friday, that helped Ramirez land on third. Saturday, it permitted Shaw to take second even though he initially was going to play it safe and stay anchored at first.
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