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However, after this game
he has to make the big decision.é
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A: Will he continue to do
what has been his life...n
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...maybe more important
than life itself: baseball?
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Or will he hang it up,
and would a perfect game...
:43:13
...give him the logical conclusion
to the great career?C
:43:40
Strout.m
:43:42
You're hitting for Ruiz. Grab a bat.u
:43:53
At 40 years old, Billy Chapel is flirting...B
:43:56
...with perhaps the greatest
accomplishment in baseball.
:43:59
And standing in his way
will be Matt Crane...
:44:02
...hitting for Babe Nardini,
then Jesus Cabrillo.
:44:06
And Ken Strout has a bat
in his hands in the dugout...
:44:09
...and might very well get the call
to bat for Jaime Ruiz.
:44:15
And you know, Steve,
you get the feeling that Billy Chapel...
:44:18
...isn't pitching against left-handers,
isn't pitching against pinch-hitters...
:44:22
...he isn't pitching against the Yankees.a
:44:24
He's pitching against time.d
:44:26
He's pitching against the future,
against age...
:44:29
...and even when you think about
his career, against ending.
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And tonight, I think he might be able...
:44:34
...to use that aching old arm
one more time...l
:44:37
...to push the sun back up in the sky...o
:44:40
...and give us one more day of summer..
:44:51
Lord...f
:44:53
...l know I always said I'd never
involve You in a baseball game.
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It always seemed silly.e