South Africa scored 438 for 9 to beat Australia's 434 for 4 in a one-day cricket match.
Baseball lacks the same drama of the chase as cricket, and the truly great baseball purist's games are the ones dominated by pitchers, but I'll try to translate the significance of a score like this. It's like having two opposing pitchers throw nearly perfect games, and then the game comes down to whether an out of form player can get an RBI from a full count on the last at-bat. Or if you prefer home run duels, this is like a game with several grand slams that is all tied up at the bottom of the 9th, and only won on the last at-bat. In other words, you'd be saying something stronger than "holy smoke" after watching a game like that ...
Posted by robe0419 at March 12, 2006 4:11 PM