Beauty and the Beast as Giants Beat Rockies

September 16, 2009 at 6:17 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment

The Giants still in the race in September, a beautiful night at AT&T, and…

Eugenio Velez hits a monster shot to right-center, absolutely destroying the ball, Dexter Fowler on his horse, a young man in hopeless pursuit, too young to give up on it, then somehow making up ground, out-running the baseball and reaching out to 1954 for a ball that had no business being caught, or for that matter landing within the confines of a ballpark. The un-Vic Wertz like Eugenio already half-way to third throws his head back in disbelief, his dismay fleeting as he remembers the Giants still lead 10-2 in the 9th…

Bengie Molina’s bat flying in to the stands on a mighty strike three swing, the mad scurry of a few white people in the rich seats behind Larry Baer, a woman holding both hands on her head as if she’d been hit, a sigh of relief when its apparent she was only terrified and not decapitated….Bengie walking head down to the dugout, not even a peek at the near-death scene. I stare wide-eyed in disbelief at Tim Fin next to me, who’s watching the same surreal scene. “Bengie’s all about Bengie,” he says, and he’s right.