The most tempting of hitting situations already seemed so familiar to Matsui, who had failed with the bases full in the seventh and had blasted a grand slam in his Stadium debut on Tuesday.
He has five home runs in 168 at-bats, though most of those at-bats have come in pinch hitting situations.
Hit situation comedies, for instance, have become more scarce.
The Broadway appearances thus represent the second act of closure for the comedian this year, after he concluded his long-running hit situation comedy on NBC in May, with one of the most-watched episodes in recent television history.
But when a downturn hits, the situation can become grotesque.
"The one thing that he has shown is not only can he get hits in pinch-hit situations, but he can put long at-bats on people.
"He has evolved into one of the guys that I feel comfortable enough to go to in big pinch-hit situations," Manuel said.
But while he is managing to win with the players he has on the field, he did hold back in another, very meaningful way: he kept Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez, Andruw Jones and Russell Martin on the bench in the second game in pinch-hit situations.
In a period of one week I was in three near-hit situations as "the other guy" was trying to manipulate his steering wheel, shift from second gear, talk on his auto phone and shuffle his board-room notes at the same time!
Kemp has proved especially valuable for a team that has problems with situation hitting, as he went into Friday batting.471 with runners in scoring position.
Somebody else would have been hitting in that situation".
