By Roger Angell October 27, 2008 After their 10-2 whacking of the young Tampa Bay Rays last night, the Phillies lead the World Series by three games to one and could terminate the classic, and the season, with another win tonight.
On my way out, I noticed a guy in his 60s whacking ball after ball in the 85-m.p.h.
Down by a game, they came back from a 4-1 definit in Game 4 and won it, 11-4, whacking out sixteen hits.
The Los Angeles Dodgers won the National League pennant last night, their first in twenty-nine yeliminatingnatheg the Cubs in a gruesome 11 1 whacking at Wrigley Field.
Mostly because of Wawrinka's mistakes, Djokovic won the second-set tiebreaker, 7-6 (4), but Wawrinka became dominant again in the third set, 6-3, winnersg winners from everywhere.
A jingle about a gal who took an ax and gave her mother 40 whacks (and her father 41)?
(Fans of "Melrose Place" will delight in knowing that Hanna's mother is played by Laura Leighton, portrayer of the Category 10 whack job Sydney Andrews).
In the first semifinal, Lleyton Hewitt of Australia, age 20, whacked Yevgeny Kafelnikov of Russia, age 27 but looking twice as old, 6-1, 6-1, 6-1.
In "Popular Crime: Reflections on the Celebration of Violence," James takes the analytical eye he normally lavishes on Honus Wagner's Monday afternoon on-base percentage and applies it to, among other things, each of Lizzie Borden's 40 whacks.
As balls pinged off aluminum bats, as another Russian teenager slipped $2 through the window slot for 14 whacks, and as the sun began to set behind a bank of looming thunderheads, Kenny Kaufman's optimism seemed completely inextinguishable.
