Sixteen Haiku
In honor of the Japanese women’s soccer team, nicknamed nadeshiko after a flower and the phrase for the ideal Japanese woman, winning the World Cup, last night’s (this morning’s) game is conveyed through haiku. May the United States women take this loss and let it propel them to the 2012 Olympics.
1
Gonzalez single
Lonely cloud in summer sky
Evaporated
2
Both pitchers dealing
Batters dropping like mayflies
Ephemeral lives
3
Swift like summer storms
Six batters’ sound and fury
Nothing to show
4
Dustin Pedroia
Laser shows outshine the sun
Wait, that’s an orange
5
Josh Reddick free pass
Rare as a drifting snowflake
In St. Petersburg
6
Running out of ways
To describe futility
Dustin grounded out
7
Lawn without sprinkler
Koi pond without without lily pads
Batters 1-2-3
8
Shower of glass shards
The national pastime is
Entombed like a corpse
9
Professor Farnsworth
Lasers penetrate glasses
Loaded base squander
10
Hey, hey, hey! It’s Fat
Albers! I always wanted
To make that joke. Ha.
11
Three bases on balls
Two strikeouts and a pop-up
Scutaro throws bat
12
The twelfth was boring
But the eleventh featured
Feisty Red Sox fan
13
Patient like a stone
Upton saw more than one pitch
Two is more than one
14
Six innings had no
Baserunners whatsoever
This was one of them
15
Three hit by pitches
Of course Youkilis was hit
One way to get on
16
Pedroia drives in
The only run of the game
Sing Dirty Water
| Game 93: July 17, 2011 ∙ 16 innings | ||
 Boston Red Sox57-36 |
1 |
W: Alfredo Aceves (5-1) S: Jonathan Papelbon (21) |
| 2B: Dustin Pedroia (21) | ||
| Tampa Bay Rays 50-43 |
0 |
L: Adam Russell (1-2) |
| No extra base hits | ||
