Golson was stopped at third base, where the coach Rob Thomson had him practice a few stutter steps down the line, just in case he is pinch-running in a vital situation.
For instance, Bonnie first sees Clyde when he is pinching a car; she slots herself into the passenger seat and stirs him to commit a silly stickup job in order to impress her, and only after he has jumped back into the car with the takings from the till do they introduce themselves to each other.
" " Give this card to the spectator between his thumb and index finger (so it looks like he or she is pinching the card) face down.
And the ultimate indignity: he was pinch-hit for in his final at-bat, on merit.
Later, in the sixth inning, Overbay hit into a double play, and then he was pinch-hit for in the eighth.
He's pinching a single to get off the mark and as he does so, I see from the replay that Johnson's wicket celebration was actually much wordier than mere grunting.
But Reggie is pretty scary himself: when in prison, he pickpockets a guard's cuffs, shackles him to the bars and beats him up – a nasty stunt he's pinched from Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs.
Nick Johnson doubled in a run to chase the left-hander Scott Sauerbeck, and with the right-hander Byung Hyun Kim coming in, Torre told Raul Mondesi he was pinch-hitting Karim Garcia for him.
Lone Star Sky finished second in the $150,000 race, three and three-quarter lengths ahead of Spite the Devil, whose progress was impeded on the turn when he was pinched by the eventual fourth-place finisher, Awesome of Course, who had set the early pace.
This cat Shawn Levy -- journalist by profession, cultural historian by ambition -- has written this book called "Ready, Steady, Go!" Actually he's pinched the title from that old show on the telly -- that one with the switched-on chick, who said "fab" and "smashing" nearly as much as yours truly.
Semi-regular panelist Joe Garagiola also acted as the host for several weeks, claiming he was "pinch-hitting" for Moore.
