The White Sox
had a runner on third base in the ninth inning of their game in Toronto on
Saturday. Tim Anderson led off with a
double and was sacrificed to third. That
brought up Yolmer Sanchez. Somebody
flashed the suicide squeeze sign, and it unfolded perfectly; Anderson had to be
no more than 25 feet from the plate when Sanchez laid down his bunt. The young man from Maracay, Venezuela, drove
in the young man from Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Basketball has
the give-and-go or the pick-and-roll as an equally simple, satisfying play (oh,
and the Sox won 5-2), but what about football?
It’s always 11 people having to do what the play calls for, or it’s a
wasted down. How complex, how
exhausting, how sad.
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