{"id":1666,"date":"2010-06-24T18:11:31","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T22:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=1666"},"modified":"2010-06-25T10:59:25","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T14:59:25","slug":"team-paris-review-storms-hearst-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/24\/team-paris-review-storms-hearst-castle\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Paris Review Storms Hearst Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"

After the jump, a recap of last night’s softball game against <\/em>Esquire.<\/p>\n

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There are moments in the history of every truly great sports team in which the din and clamor of\u00a0past failure<\/a> and\u00a0petty distractions<\/a> are suddenly quieted and the many struggling individuals become united as one, playing the game as it was meant to be played. I was a witness to such a state of grace on Tuesday night at Dyn-o-Mite Field. That night, we proved that even\u00a0Man at His Best<\/a> can’t stop the women and men of the\u00a0Paris Review <\/em>softball team when we’re operating at our highest level. The Parisians played like a team inspired, devastating the good folk at\u00a0Esquire<\/em> 11 to 2. <\/p>\n

Esquire <\/em>was\u00a0talking trash<\/a> before the game, but fell strangely silent once our new ace, Stephen “Oil Can” Hiltner, delivered back-to-back shutout innings to start the game. The\u00a0Paris Review<\/em> bats, however, were anything but mute, as pretty much the entire lineup got on base in the first. Pashman started things off with his customary no-apologies early-inning home run, then Hiltner followed up with a three-run shot. Two rookies teamed up to give us our fifth run that inning, when Jimmy “James J. Walker” Williams scored on a single by Dan “Double Play” Malkoun. The team took its foot off the accelerator a little bit after the first inning—no one wanted a blowout—but we still managed to see Devin “Mac Foundation” McIntyre, Robin “Calliope” Creswell, and a host of others across the plate in the later innings.<\/p>\n

\nBut the real story was the\u00a0Paris Review <\/em>defense, which came together in a way that we haven’t seen since the storied undefeated season under captain Nat Rich way back in 2009. We had jumping catches, laserlike throws, and not one but\u00a0two <\/em>double plays, our first of the season (5–4–3 and 1–3, for those of you keeping score at home). I’d go on, but, like\u00a0dancing about architecture<\/a> (a Mia Hamm bon mot, I believe), it’s difficult to write convincingly about such physical mastery. Perhaps I’ll simply let the row of zeroes in the ESQ <\/em>column do the talking.<\/p>\n

Although\u00a0Esquire <\/em>was not above\u00a0whimpering<\/a> in self-pity from the recesses of their Twitter lair (for the record, the scorekeeping was done inside a copy of\u00a0A Fan’s Notes<\/a> only because your faithful captain left his clipboard at the office), at the bar afterward, having escaped the hot agony of the game, they were champions of good cheer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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