Notes: game on...on the radio...under threat of rain...Yankees just took the field...
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The Mixtec and Zapotec peoples of the region currently known as Oaxaca regarded the flower as having mystical qualities after one grew from the corpse of the Zapotec Princess, Donaji who married a Mixtec king in a political alliance against the ever bloodthirsty Aztecs. To this day, the Oaxacan state seal still bears an image of the Primrose.
https://lorissarinehart.com/2018/02/10/city-plants-evening-primrose/
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found that doing primrose searches last night...in the wee hours!...Cozart...bloop base hit...lead off man on...Trout up...field is soggy...most sites telling the story, a very much Romeo and Juliet story relate a different flower---flower of Madonna...and it is a charming story, but with typical Mesoamerican gruesomeness!...here's link to wiki's take to Donaji's sad tale...Trout K...Simmons fly out...Ohtani up...3 for 19...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oaxaca_City
Ohtani against Tanaka...2-2...K...and then I got to looking at Zapotec things...the Zapotecs may have been the precursor to the Toltecs, and the Toltects to the Mayans...and the Zapotecs have towns on the Pacific Coast...Oaxaca...bottom of 1...Richards pitching for Angels...and I got to looking at Zapotec figurines to see if they have the Toltec/Mayan butterfly pectoral...lead off single for Yankees...and realized, looking at the many figurines, that many of them had on the same looking pectorals...oh, I thought, they are like clan logos...the medieval Japanese are famous for these...for sometime a catalog of Mesoamerican pectorals!...and then, and then, I remembered Aztec shields, like the ruler, 'smoke shield', and did 'Aztec shield' searches, thinking they too would have clan ideographs...and then!, I remembered model war gamers have the best stuff...and found a game sight that has a brief catalog of Aztec shields...
Painting Guide for Aztec and Texcalan Shields
On the right (Pic 2) is an illustration from the Codex Mendoza (original in the Bodleian Library, Oxford) showing “The Brave Ticocyahuacatl” (one of the titles for a warrior-prince). (Above him is the classic Aztec 4-arrows+shield motif associated with warfare and the Aztecs’ tribal god Huitzilopochtli). His shield bears the commonly seen stepped fret design that could be used with a number of different costumes.
The same design was reproduced in Aztec and Mixtec jewellery - a beautiful illustration of this can be found in the Codex Tepetlaoztoc (Pic 3 - notice the 4 arrows and shield!)
http://www.mexicolore.co.uk/aztecs/artefacts/chimalli
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the fringes hanging down are leather, kind of like a Greek/Roman leather armor skirt, and part of the shield...but what's curios is the design!...Yankees made out...Angels two out...quiet inning...bottom of 2nd...
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Geometrical scroll patterns like the Vitruvian scroll are found very widely in many cultures, and probably often developed independently.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meander_(art)
"greek key/meander" it's called...and the shield not only has that, but that 'fret' that looks like a little staircase...let me see if I can find that one!...Richards in trouble...wild pitched a runner over to second, I think...listen a sec to catch up...full count 3-2...W...two on with one out...
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Xicalcoliuhqui (also referred to as a "step fret" or "stepped fret" design and greca in Spanish) is a common motif in Mesoamerican art.[1][2][3][4] It is composed of three or more steps connected to a hook or spiral, reminiscent of a "greek-key" meander.
... ... ...
Xicalcoliuhqui chimalli, are shields featuring a single iteration of the stepped fret motif which were painted or covered with featherwork.[4] They are depicted frequently in the Codex Mendoza, and many other central Mexican codices, usually with the xicalcoliuhqui design shown in yellow and green.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xicalcoliuhqui
maybe I could do wikis!!!...K...two out...the shield is said to represent the sun...I think of these meanders as the day waxing and waning from day to night, and the years waxing and waning from one season to another...they go way back, right to the beginning...Richards got through...to top of 3rd...a cold windy misty day...Calhoun up...ground out...Young up...in for Upton...Upton got hit in the arm last game...fly out...
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from site with shields
Note for teachers and pupilsif you want to find out more about Aztec military costumes, try looking at some of the websites created by ‘Wargaming’ keenies, using hand painted model figures; some of them really go to town on their research! The one below is quite superb, with a downloadable illustrated essay.
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war gamers are notorious!...Trout fly out...Altuvi lead off hit...bottom of third...Richards apparently likes trouble...somewhere in that shield site, which is extensive, is an explanation of what the 'fret' is...North American symbol list have it that it can be snow or clouds...there's a thought, which I mentioned, that modern 'emojii' are on their way to becoming a new pictoral language...
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Visual communication has become so widespread in the Internet age that now we even supplement or replace written language through emoji, emoticons, stickers, or GIFs.
https://medium.com/@catherineannemoore/emoji-as-visual-literacy-cbebe37cb99c
the Mesoamerican costumes are such that were a emojii bulletin board!...and if they had a universal hand language, they could likely communicate across languages, which were so numerous as to be a certain barrier...
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The word xicalcoliuhqui (Nahuatl pronunciation: [ʃikaɬkoˈliʍki]) means "twisted gourd" (xical- "gourdbowl" and coliuhqui "twisted") in Nahuatl.[1][2][10] The motif is associated with many ideas, and is variously thought to depict water, waves, clouds, lightning, a serpent or serpent-deity like the mythological fire or feathered serpents, as well as more philosophical ideas like cyclical movement, or the life-giving connection between the light of the sun and the earth, and it may have been a protection against death, but no single meaning is universally accepted.[ It is also possible that the motif represents the cut conch shell which is an emblem of Ehecatl, the wind god, an aspect of Quetzalcoatl.[6][11] It seems likely that the multivalent nature of the symbol gave rise to its potency and longevity.[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xicalcoliuhqui
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hmmph...another wild pitch!...an exasperation!...runner on third...3-0...
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However, what makes Mitla unique among Mesoamerican sites is the elaborate and intricate mosaic fretwork and geometric designs that cover tombs, panels, friezes and even entire walls. These mosaics are made with small, finely cut and polished stone pieces which have been fitted together without the use of mortar. No other site in Mexico has this.[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitla
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oh...bases were loaded...walks in a run..doggone it Scocia!...why dangle poor Richards like that...he just didn't have it today...well, what do I know...hmmph...reading about Mitla reminds me of the Church on top of the Pyramid...Spanish destroy things and build churches on the sites...oh...Alverez in to pitch and hits a batter...another run...ground out..fc...and another run in...Yankees 3-0...gloomy like the weather in New York!...
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Today the pyramid at first looks like a natural hill surmounted by a church.[1] This is the Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de los Remedios (Church of Our Lady of Remedies), also known as the Santuario de la Virgen de los Remedios (Sanctuary of the Virgin of Remedies), which was built by the Spanish in colonial times (1594) on top of the prehispanic temple. The church is a major Catholic pilgrimage destination, and the site is also used for the celebration of indigenous rites. Many ancient sites in Latin America are found under modern Catholic holy sites, due to the practice of the Catholic Church of repurposing local religious sites.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pyramid_of_Cholula
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Yankees made out...top of 4th...Simmons up...lead off single...Ohtani up...too NY booos...they wanted Ohtani...the Dodgers, Seattle, everyone did...and booo...2-0...that pyramid is the biggest in the world, and is still an on going archaeological dig that hasn't scratched the surface...a smile here for the thought of an extra chamber in the Great Pyramid...there are extra Pyramids stacked beneath the outer one!...still to be researched...Cholula is pretty, high up in the mountains...a place to runaway to!...2-2...oh...this on Valbuena...K...what happened to Ohtani?...Kinsler up...double play...must have walked...on to bottom of 4th...lead off batter on...Gardner...watching Cholula youtubes...the church on top is beautiful...and huge!...these tourist clips are charming, often narrated by pretty girls...in fact, such are everywhere...see Hawaii volcano and the Physics Girl on youtube...bloop bloop bloop...K...K...K...Alverez strikes out the side...:)...top of 5th...Cholula said to have lots of ceramics...brb...Maldanado foul tip out...questioned...K...Calhoun up...ground out...two out walk for Young...Cozart up...K...bottom of 5th...trying to find pic to snag of church with the volcano in background...a natural step, I'd say, is to make pyramids to symbolize volcanos...
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia_de_Nuestra_Se%C3%B1ora_de_los_Remedios,_Cholula,_Puebla.jpg
I happened on a Mexican 'pompeii'...hard to find again...Yankees make out...Crole came in for Alverez...bullpen taking turns...Trout up...K on three pitches...seven strike outs for Tanaka...Simmons 1-1...home run!...Yankees 3-1...Ohtani...K...0-9 in series...and third out by ?...on to bottom of 6th...
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Around the year 590[2][3] another nearby volcano, Loma Caldera, erupted and buried the village under 14 layers of ash. The villagers were apparently able to flee in time – no bodies have been found – although they left behind utensils, ceramics, furniture, and even half-eaten food in their haste to escape.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joya_de_Cer%C3%A9n
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that's cool...a peek at everyday folk and how they lived...
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same
Of great importance was the discovery of manioc fields, the first time manioc cultivation had been found at a New World archaeological site.[
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Manioc???...two ground out two outs...oh, introduced to Polynesia by Europeans...changed batteries...missed Yankee at bats...no score...top of 7th...Chapman up in the bullpen...10 straight hits by Altuve on ?...lead off hit...Chapman sat...Calhoun up...fly out...second out...Young up...Altuve is on the Astros...ten hits in row...what's record...Dropo, Tigers, with 12...third out...to bottom of 7th...I happened on a site which thought Indians in Louisiana were in contact with the Mayas...brb...
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The ceramic cooking balls and stone fishing net weights at Poverty Point are identical to the stone cooking balls and stone fishing net weights at Skara Brae in the Orkney Islands of Scotland.
https://peopleofonefire.com/mesoamerican-civilization-may-have-originated-in-louisiana.html/comment-page-1
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site has pic of these 'balls'...they look like the cog wheels in Bower's Museum...see yesterday's post....those too thought to be fishing net weights...hadn't thought they could be for cooking...seems any old stone would do for that...Angels up...Cozart up...lead off walk...Trout up...author of that site has the Mysterions all a twitter...leads off in the first episode of America Unearthed...watched that on youtube...kind of an ancient astronauts thing...but he is well versed...and maybe on to things...fc Trout...Cozart out...double play...to bottom of 7th...two outs for Yankees...this is a closer game than it seems!...but Angels just aren't getting base runners around...nothing like last night!...Torrez up...the rookie trouble maker...long fly out to Trout...winds blowing in...to top of 9th...missed an Angel at bat?...Ohtani up...one wonders if all the Indians in the Americas didn't have some connection to one another...that they some how crossed the language barriers...each tribe was so protective of its turf, that there wasn't much moving around...if you did, you did like the Aztecs...conquering everyone as you went along...1-0...has not had a hit in the Yankee series...fump...Chapman pitching again...2-1...3-1...foul...3-2...W...that's good!...we need two runs to tie!...Marte up...batting for Valbuena...0-1...0-2...but, there's something going with trade...site has it much trade between Mexico and North America...Maya blue...brb...
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Despite time and the harsh weathering conditions, paintings colored by Maya blue have not faded over time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_blue
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America Unearthed has it the special clay for the paint was from Georgia...reminds me of lapis lazuli pigment coming from Afghanistan...K...Kinsler up...wp...Ohtani to second...out of double play danger...sorta...line drive could happen...K...down to their final out...Maldanado up...wp...Ohtani to third...not much to that...need another base runner to get around...2-0...take take take...oh...popped foul...2-2...gloom...fans are rising to their feet...fast ball foul...ground out...hmmph...to Detroit tomorrow morrow...
:(
DavidDavid
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http://www.mexicolore.co.uk/aztecs/artefacts/chimalli
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the fringes hanging down are leather, kind of like a Greek/Roman leather armor skirt, and part of the shield...but what's curios is the design!...Yankees made out...Angels two out...quiet inning...bottom of 2nd...
quote
Geometrical scroll patterns like the Vitruvian scroll are found very widely in many cultures, and probably often developed independently.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meander_(art)
"greek key/meander" it's called...and the shield not only has that, but that 'fret' that looks like a little staircase...let me see if I can find that one!...Richards in trouble...wild pitched a runner over to second, I think...listen a sec to catch up...full count 3-2...W...two on with one out...
quote
Xicalcoliuhqui (also referred to as a "step fret" or "stepped fret" design and greca in Spanish) is a common motif in Mesoamerican art.[1][2][3][4] It is composed of three or more steps connected to a hook or spiral, reminiscent of a "greek-key" meander.
... ... ...
Xicalcoliuhqui chimalli, are shields featuring a single iteration of the stepped fret motif which were painted or covered with featherwork.[4] They are depicted frequently in the Codex Mendoza, and many other central Mexican codices, usually with the xicalcoliuhqui design shown in yellow and green.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xicalcoliuhqui
maybe I could do wikis!!!...K...two out...the shield is said to represent the sun...I think of these meanders as the day waxing and waning from day to night, and the years waxing and waning from one season to another...they go way back, right to the beginning...Richards got through...to top of 3rd...a cold windy misty day...Calhoun up...ground out...Young up...in for Upton...Upton got hit in the arm last game...fly out...
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from site with shields
Note for teachers and pupilsif you want to find out more about Aztec military costumes, try looking at some of the websites created by ‘Wargaming’ keenies, using hand painted model figures; some of them really go to town on their research! The one below is quite superb, with a downloadable illustrated essay.
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war gamers are notorious!...Trout fly out...Altuvi lead off hit...bottom of third...Richards apparently likes trouble...somewhere in that shield site, which is extensive, is an explanation of what the 'fret' is...North American symbol list have it that it can be snow or clouds...there's a thought, which I mentioned, that modern 'emojii' are on their way to becoming a new pictoral language...
quote
Visual communication has become so widespread in the Internet age that now we even supplement or replace written language through emoji, emoticons, stickers, or GIFs.
https://medium.com/@catherineannemoore/emoji-as-visual-literacy-cbebe37cb99c
the Mesoamerican costumes are such that were a emojii bulletin board!...and if they had a universal hand language, they could likely communicate across languages, which were so numerous as to be a certain barrier...
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The word xicalcoliuhqui (Nahuatl pronunciation: [ʃikaɬkoˈliʍki]) means "twisted gourd" (xical- "gourdbowl" and coliuhqui "twisted") in Nahuatl.[1][2][10] The motif is associated with many ideas, and is variously thought to depict water, waves, clouds, lightning, a serpent or serpent-deity like the mythological fire or feathered serpents, as well as more philosophical ideas like cyclical movement, or the life-giving connection between the light of the sun and the earth, and it may have been a protection against death, but no single meaning is universally accepted.[ It is also possible that the motif represents the cut conch shell which is an emblem of Ehecatl, the wind god, an aspect of Quetzalcoatl.[6][11] It seems likely that the multivalent nature of the symbol gave rise to its potency and longevity.[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xicalcoliuhqui
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hmmph...another wild pitch!...an exasperation!...runner on third...3-0...
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However, what makes Mitla unique among Mesoamerican sites is the elaborate and intricate mosaic fretwork and geometric designs that cover tombs, panels, friezes and even entire walls. These mosaics are made with small, finely cut and polished stone pieces which have been fitted together without the use of mortar. No other site in Mexico has this.[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitla
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oh...bases were loaded...walks in a run..doggone it Scocia!...why dangle poor Richards like that...he just didn't have it today...well, what do I know...hmmph...reading about Mitla reminds me of the Church on top of the Pyramid...Spanish destroy things and build churches on the sites...oh...Alverez in to pitch and hits a batter...another run...ground out..fc...and another run in...Yankees 3-0...gloomy like the weather in New York!...
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Today the pyramid at first looks like a natural hill surmounted by a church.[1] This is the Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de los Remedios (Church of Our Lady of Remedies), also known as the Santuario de la Virgen de los Remedios (Sanctuary of the Virgin of Remedies), which was built by the Spanish in colonial times (1594) on top of the prehispanic temple. The church is a major Catholic pilgrimage destination, and the site is also used for the celebration of indigenous rites. Many ancient sites in Latin America are found under modern Catholic holy sites, due to the practice of the Catholic Church of repurposing local religious sites.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pyramid_of_Cholula
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Yankees made out...top of 4th...Simmons up...lead off single...Ohtani up...too NY booos...they wanted Ohtani...the Dodgers, Seattle, everyone did...and booo...2-0...that pyramid is the biggest in the world, and is still an on going archaeological dig that hasn't scratched the surface...a smile here for the thought of an extra chamber in the Great Pyramid...there are extra Pyramids stacked beneath the outer one!...still to be researched...Cholula is pretty, high up in the mountains...a place to runaway to!...2-2...oh...this on Valbuena...K...what happened to Ohtani?...Kinsler up...double play...must have walked...on to bottom of 4th...lead off batter on...Gardner...watching Cholula youtubes...the church on top is beautiful...and huge!...these tourist clips are charming, often narrated by pretty girls...in fact, such are everywhere...see Hawaii volcano and the Physics Girl on youtube...bloop bloop bloop...K...K...K...Alverez strikes out the side...:)...top of 5th...Cholula said to have lots of ceramics...brb...Maldanado foul tip out...questioned...K...Calhoun up...ground out...two out walk for Young...Cozart up...K...bottom of 5th...trying to find pic to snag of church with the volcano in background...a natural step, I'd say, is to make pyramids to symbolize volcanos...
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia_de_Nuestra_Se%C3%B1ora_de_los_Remedios,_Cholula,_Puebla.jpg
I happened on a Mexican 'pompeii'...hard to find again...Yankees make out...Crole came in for Alverez...bullpen taking turns...Trout up...K on three pitches...seven strike outs for Tanaka...Simmons 1-1...home run!...Yankees 3-1...Ohtani...K...0-9 in series...and third out by ?...on to bottom of 6th...
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Around the year 590[2][3] another nearby volcano, Loma Caldera, erupted and buried the village under 14 layers of ash. The villagers were apparently able to flee in time – no bodies have been found – although they left behind utensils, ceramics, furniture, and even half-eaten food in their haste to escape.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joya_de_Cer%C3%A9n
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that's cool...a peek at everyday folk and how they lived...
quote
same
Of great importance was the discovery of manioc fields, the first time manioc cultivation had been found at a New World archaeological site.[
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Manioc???...two ground out two outs...oh, introduced to Polynesia by Europeans...changed batteries...missed Yankee at bats...no score...top of 7th...Chapman up in the bullpen...10 straight hits by Altuve on ?...lead off hit...Chapman sat...Calhoun up...fly out...second out...Young up...Altuve is on the Astros...ten hits in row...what's record...Dropo, Tigers, with 12...third out...to bottom of 7th...I happened on a site which thought Indians in Louisiana were in contact with the Mayas...brb...
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The ceramic cooking balls and stone fishing net weights at Poverty Point are identical to the stone cooking balls and stone fishing net weights at Skara Brae in the Orkney Islands of Scotland.
https://peopleofonefire.com/mesoamerican-civilization-may-have-originated-in-louisiana.html/comment-page-1
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site has pic of these 'balls'...they look like the cog wheels in Bower's Museum...see yesterday's post....those too thought to be fishing net weights...hadn't thought they could be for cooking...seems any old stone would do for that...Angels up...Cozart up...lead off walk...Trout up...author of that site has the Mysterions all a twitter...leads off in the first episode of America Unearthed...watched that on youtube...kind of an ancient astronauts thing...but he is well versed...and maybe on to things...fc Trout...Cozart out...double play...to bottom of 7th...two outs for Yankees...this is a closer game than it seems!...but Angels just aren't getting base runners around...nothing like last night!...Torrez up...the rookie trouble maker...long fly out to Trout...winds blowing in...to top of 9th...missed an Angel at bat?...Ohtani up...one wonders if all the Indians in the Americas didn't have some connection to one another...that they some how crossed the language barriers...each tribe was so protective of its turf, that there wasn't much moving around...if you did, you did like the Aztecs...conquering everyone as you went along...1-0...has not had a hit in the Yankee series...fump...Chapman pitching again...2-1...3-1...foul...3-2...W...that's good!...we need two runs to tie!...Marte up...batting for Valbuena...0-1...0-2...but, there's something going with trade...site has it much trade between Mexico and North America...Maya blue...brb...
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Despite time and the harsh weathering conditions, paintings colored by Maya blue have not faded over time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_blue
unquote
America Unearthed has it the special clay for the paint was from Georgia...reminds me of lapis lazuli pigment coming from Afghanistan...K...Kinsler up...wp...Ohtani to second...out of double play danger...sorta...line drive could happen...K...down to their final out...Maldanado up...wp...Ohtani to third...not much to that...need another base runner to get around...2-0...take take take...oh...popped foul...2-2...gloom...fans are rising to their feet...fast ball foul...ground out...hmmph...to Detroit tomorrow morrow...
:(
DavidDavid
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