These weaknesses are easier to accept when a team wins with clutch hitting and some sparkling fielding in dramatic moments.
This allowed the patient Mariners to wait for their old pros, Martinez and Olerud, who seized the opportunity in a game that included 12 pitchers, several sparkling fielding plays and 45,290 chilled fans.
"Everything fresh, sparkling, the fields washed after rain, the whole world washed".
That platform just happens to exist far from home, in a place with green fields and sparkling diamonds, otherwise known as a land of opportunity.
In the past, Redford, directing such movies as "A River Runs Through It," "The Legend of Bagger Vance," and "The Horse Whisperer," indulged a placid pictorialism of sparkling streams and verdant fields; the movies became slow and soggy.
The billionaire Alfredo Harp Helú opened this baseball academy, La Academia de Béisbol Alfredo Harp Helú, in 2009, and the sparkling school has seven baseball fields, a weight room, trainers, dormitories, even custom-made artwork by local potters.
Within hours, G.M. executives agreed, and Mr. Galarraga received the sparkling cherry-red convertible on the Comerica Park field, courtesy of the automaker whose headquarters dominate the skyline over right field.
In addition to the sparkling stadium and the six practice fields for each team, there's a 16-screen movie theater, restaurants and a shopping mall.
It was only the third time in 2012 that one of the top four had lost to someone outside the top four, bringing down their overall record against the field to a still-sparkling 46-3.
