12th over: England 64-3 (Key 1, Flintoff 5) Ervine was about to bowl a maiden to Flintoff, but the scheduled last ball of the over is a no-ball which Flintoff slaps through mid-off for four.
It was a place with a G.I. culture and language all its own, where grunts humped the paddies to waste Charlie or get blown away, where angry brothers fragged white officers, where Vietnamese squatting by the roadside sold No. 1 (best) grass in deftly resealed Marlboro packs and there were always several choppers slapping through the rancid black plumes from burning latrine cans.
Well, it looks like a column shifter, but it really is dash-mounted, translating to a longer reach from the steering wheel, which could make it difficult to slap through the gears in a Blues Brothers-worthy, reverse J-turn manoeuver.
He loved the rocking of a heavy boat in a slight swell reaching to windward on a blue-sky day with a glint of sun on the water, the masts creaking, the wind slapping through the rigging.
After pinch-hitter Juan Francisco struck out, Michael Bourn smacked a run-scoring single through the middle of the infield, Prado slapped one through the right side, and Heyward slipped one through the left.
He took a pass from Mike Ribeiro and slapped it through the traffic and into the net.
But Catalanotto was looking in that location, and he slapped it through the left side, scoring two runs to give Toronto a 4-2 lead.
That eventually came three minutes from the end when Daly deflected Richard Mantell's slapped cross through Mahood's legs - but GB were unable to force victory despite two late penalty corners.
Of course, sometimes this theme was less subtext than text, from the visit Don and his buddies made to a brothel earlier this year ("You are my king") on back to Don's own working girl, the one who slapped him through his post-divorce funk.
