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Kolten Wong was born in Hilo, Hawai‘i. Residents of the city evacuated prior to the arrival of Tropical Storm Iselle and may have to do the same if Hurricane Julio follows a similar path. Hopefully they heard about Wong’s heroics while they huddled down to wait out the storms. Perhaps Wong took some consolation from doing so well against the Red Sox in this game. He was the reason the Cardinals lost Game 4 of the 2013 World Series and became part of baseball history. When he was picked off by Koji Uehara for the final out it was the first time a game had ended in such a way in the Fall Classic. My friends and relatives on Maui have been keeping me up to date about the hurricane situation in the Pacific. Some stores began price gouging on bottled water; customers took photos of signs stating $30 for a case of the precious commodity. In 2011 Hawai‘i legislators passed a statute prohibiting such activity: 209-9 Rental or sale of essential commodities during a state disaster; prohibition against price increases. (a) Whenever the governor declares a state disaster for the entire State or any portion thereof, or when the...
David Ortiz rallied his teammates and delivered a speech akin to General George S. Patton’s speech to the Third Army. The events that followed in the game were like Patton Oswalt’s “Parks and Recreation” filibuster. Oswalt mashed up Star Wars, the Avengers, and a myriad of other fandoms in his diatribe. John Farrell cobbled together a World Series victory with a last-minute lineup and a melange of arms. Ortiz laid the groundwork in the fifth inning with a double scorched to the right-center gap. “Let’s go! ¡Vámonos!” he exhorted from the keystone sack. Jonny Gomes, who filled in for late scratch Shane Victorino, worked a walk after falling behind Lance Lynn in the count and Xander Bogaerts’s five-pitch at bat also granted him a free pass. With the bases loaded, Stephen Drew got enough loft on the ball and sacrificed in Ortiz to tie the game. Your browser does not support iframes. Clay Buchholz was throwing like Tom Brady. Despite his fastball hovering around 88 MPH, the starter gutted out 4 innings and only surrendered one unearned run. No one would be surprised if some point in the future Buchholz’s and Brady’s injuries are revealed to be much worse than...
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