Wells was 8-10 with a 5.62 earned run average at Fenway before tonight, which is why he has often mentioned how he would like to detonate the ancient ballpark.
Inevitably, tragedy strikes, but the giddy prose never stops, detonating like a string of firecrackers.
Tuesday's episode tried as hard as it could to make an egg exciting, requiring much crash-zooming on the inert little bugger which failed to do anything dramatic like detonate, or hatch into a dragon.
The missiles destroy their targets by spraying them with shrapnel-like steel balls rather than detonating an explosive warhead.
The images on CNN were entrancing to a 9-year-old: nothing but desert and sky, armored vehicles rolling along flat terrain, the regular, pulse-like plume of smart bombs detonating through grates in the sides of buildings.
But his description was consistent with the damage experts say would be wrought by the long-range antiaircraft missiles used in the Ukrainian exercise, which destroy their targets by spraying them with shrapnel-like steel balls rather than detonating an explosive warhead.
Becky's beehive lurched like a detonated high rise, her lip colour swept westward on to her earlobe, a Regal King Size blazed in her gob".
"High" explosives, known as ANFO (ammonium nitrate, or fertilizer, plus fuel oil) and T.A.T.P. (triacetone triperoxide, or a mixture of commercially available acetone, hydrogen peroxide, and something acidic, like vinegar) detonate.
All this skanky creativity has worked like a TNT blast, detonating once locked doors.
