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Ever, and Anon.

by Paul Kocak

The oracles erred:
Not-so-great expectations
“Suhwwiinng and a miss”
(Cue Kuiper)
It’s a year of the Yaz
And razzmatazz
A Wade into wonder
Hitting in the pinch
Going for the clinch
They might be Giants
Indeed they are
Homer-ic team-sters
An arc of anonymity
Pining for posterity:
LaStella oh so stellar
Longo launching long ones
Into Baseball’s Starry Night
Posey, Belt, and Crawford
Renascence Men
Solano Flores Bryant
Rogers Disco McGee
Watson Wood Webb
Gausman Casali Garcia
Duggar Cueto Slater
Dickerson Doval Dubón
Littell Leone Quintana
And Kazmir redux!
On and on
Names forgotten?
No matter.
A roster
For Gabe Kapler
O captain our captain
Anonymous
Synonymous
With eponymous
Giants
Ever and anon.
Twenty
Twenty-one
Fun salute.

Paul Kocak is the author of Baseball’s Starry Night and World Serious, as well as the poetry collections Rounding Third and Tipp Hill Litanies.

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Boston Shell Shocked as Yankees Sweep Red Sox

by Stephen Jones

This season, militarily,
When the game is on the line,
The Yankees use artillery
In late innings to win.

This past weekend, it was
Stanton’s Booming Cannon
(With two shots out of Fenway
That almost hit the harvest moon).

 

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Hub Pruett

by Michael Ceraolo

Shucks, baseball is a great game
And one of the best things about it
is the mystery of when form doesn’t hold;
I’ll use myself as an example
In my first season, plus his first appearance
against me in my second season,
I struck out Babe Ruth ten times in thirteen at-bats;
he only had two hits in those at-bats, one a home run,
and in addition had three walks
If that wasn’t in “Ripley’s Believe It or Not,”
it should have been; I think that stat alone
probably kept me in the big leagues longer
than my pitching against all others warranted,
and that allowed me to put myself through medical school
The Babe did better against me after that beginning,
but I am eternally grateful to him
for my moment in the sun.

 

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Streaky Yankees . . . and a Fan

by Stephen Jones

Go figure this team –
I have no idea, none whatsoever.
One moment,
An evanescent 13 wins in a row;
Then right after
That bubble, losing 10 out of 12.
Tonight,
They pummeled Baltimore,
Which they should …
But hey, didn’t Baltimore
Just beat them 2-out-of-3,
When they shouldn’t?
Go figure.
Where the Yankees will end up,
Is anybody’s guess.