But Beltre struck out, and when Buck blooped a ball to shallow right, Ortiz hesitated, in case Byrd caught the ball.
Graig Cooper ran for 93 yards, Javarris James rushed for 72 more and a touchdown, and LaRon Byrd caught five passes for 83 yards and a score.
Republicans, caught between the Byrd Rule and the middle class, had to find a way to give something to average Americans while also lowering future government spending so that the math would add up.
I caught up with Midori Tajiri-Byrd, artist, costumer, milliner, baker, make-up artist, writer, musician, parade captain, and weirdo.
A victory over Byrd would certainly have caught some attention.
An entire book could be written about the way Columbia missed the boat on rock 'n' roll in the 1950s, as well as the way it caught up a decade later, signing the Byrds, Janis Joplin and many others.
Mr. Byrd was killed when he was caught in the crossfire of dueling drug dealers outside his home in the Morris Heights section.
During Bill Clinton's first year as President, his most ambitious piece of legislation — a proposal to provide universal health care — was doomed as soon as it got caught in a parliamentary procedure known as the Byrd rule (named after the very senior senator from West Virginia).
That honor went to third baseman Luis Jimenez, who hit a tie-breaking, two-run double in the top of the sixth inning and, with two on in the bottom of the sixth, made a superb diving catch of Marlon Byrd's liner to start an inning-ending double play.
