Michael Holloway's Baseball Blogs

Writing around the idea that baseball is a game slightly ahead of its time. A 'simple' game the qualities of which include physical and metaphysical paradoxes: the two dimensional diamond with-in the sphere; the struggle between individuals with-in a complex group dynamic.
Baseball is like a school of the Socratic method: it asks questions - the consideration of which lead to more questions - a process that illuminates a path towards critical thought.

Saturday, August 1, 2015

The down-side of a great deadline trade experience - some players have to go

KC at Jays - Saturday, August 1, 2015

Game Notes.

Kawasaki is in the order to show case him for a waiver trade - and everyone in the dugout today knows it; not one person is even acknowledging that he's in the dugout - like the pitcher with the no-hitter going, no one's talking to him - no one wants to go near the guy who's going down in a clubhouse that is in the midst of a huge shakup.

Reveres grimaces when he tosses the ball back to the infield on a shallow out in LF.

With runners on 2nd and 3rd and 1 out Buehrle hits the batter on the first pitch. Was that a pitch saving intentional BB? I think it looked like it was.

Jays lose 6-7 in 9 with the winning run 90 feet away.

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