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A stolen base is a thing of beauty.
Sarah-Jane, yes, baseball (and all sports) has its own vernacular. I think baseball language is poetry.
Here is what might be considered found poetry, though no one actually said it or wrote it down. It is my own accounting of the Immaculate Inning described in baseball vernacular.
The Immaculate Inning
(On the occasion of Boston Red Sox pitcher Chris Sale’s historic third Immaculate Inning pitched, August 26, 2021)
From his high place he eyes the plate.
He leans in, shaking off, then taking the sign
delivering untouchables numbering nine:
Fastball, inside, swinging strike one.
Curveball, catching the inside corner, looking strike two.
Fastball, upstairs, swinging strike three.
Fastball, outside corner low, swinging strike one.
Curveball, off the plate low outside, fouled off strike two.
High heat, at the shoulders, swinging strike three.
Slider drops in, down the middle, looking strike one.
Fastball, inside corner, swinging strike two.
Slider, the bottom falls out of it, check-swing strike three.
The Immaculate Inning.
Something to see.
Selection. Control. Velocity.
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