VII.
Game One’s October
heat waves the air as LA
pitching fans bright stars.
Two games: strikes stunt
bats through seven—before the shelling
of Chavez Ravine.
Game Three ends as soon
as poor Darvish gives up four
runs under the roofed park.
Four’s turf: a pitching duel
washed away by the ninth—“single,
walk, double, showers.”
five makes baseball drunk
punch drunk on slick limp bananas
the vaulted heavens rain
6, top 2nd, ghosts
haunt & boo as white hot bats cool;
LA skip-trots seventh home.
Seven took less than two
to hear the Dodger blues trail
Houston’s sunnier swing.
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