With Sal in Chicago and Havelock busy writing haikus, it's time for another classic game of 2009. This game went 10 innings, and featured an 11-run explosion-- by the losing team!
Dave Rosengard and Havelock Hewes were the pitching antagonists in this matchup, and Rosengard's team jumped out to a 9-1 lead after 2 innings, sparked by back-to-back HR's from Brian Hernandez and Ian Parfrey in the first inning. Of course, no lead is ever safe in SFLOI, and in the bottom of the 3rd, Hewes's team exploded for 11 runs. The monster inning featured two costly errors by yours truly, a 2-run triple from Dave Sommers, and a bases-clearing tie-breaking triple from Chris Hall.
Both pitchers settled down and hung up zeroes until the top of the 6th, when two infield errors allowed Rosengard's team to tie it. The pitchers went back to work, and no further runs scored until the top of the 10th, when Hernandez and Parfrey went back-to-back for the 2nd time, Hernandez's blast coming with Phil Ciccone on base and clearing the bleachers of the next field. This gave Rosengard a 15-12 lead, which he held onto in the bottom of the 10th.
The winning team got 2 HR's and 6 RBI from Hernandez, 2 HR's and 3 RBI from Parfrey, and Phil Ciccone was 5-for-6 with 3 RBI. On the other side, Chris Hall drove in 5. All told, 27 runs scored on 37 hits.
Monday, February 8, 2010
SFLOI Classics-- 6/28/09
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You had to remind me?
I would have guessed that a poet would know the difference between haiku and my work. Haiku has a specified number of syllables. I once wrote an haiku, in fifth grade...
The bird said hello
"Hello, Hello, Hello,"
The bird said hello
What I write has a different structure of which, it seems, only Mr. Lee has had the intelligence and fortitude to begin to understand. Each line is a linguistic hint. Beyond this,I plead the artists right to ambiguity and obnoxious refusal to discuss his work.
What you've written is what I'd call an "American haiku"-- a very short poem without an exact count of syllables. Kerouac wrote a lot of them. Or perhaps you're experimenting with Imagism. What does Marvin say about it?
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