Up one run, Aaron Boone, they Yankees manager, issued a two-out intentional walk with men on first and second to get to Arizona pitcher, who had to bat due to the Diamondbacks losing their designated hitter. Scott McGough then stuck out to end the game, the Yankees winning 6-5.

This reminds me of one of my most famous Strat-o-Matic games.* We were playing with 1979 cards in our dorm league, and I was pitted against one of my roommates. We were in extra innings, and with two out, my number six hitter Bill Madlock doubled. My opponent then walked Thurman Munson and Rick Burleson to load the bases, because I could not pinch hit for the pitcher (no DH league) because I had used up my bench. Dave Frost came to the plate, as bad a hitter as a pitcher could be in the game. He faced Joaquin Andujar. The dice roll wound up on Andujar’s card, a 4-9. It turned out to be a walk. The Pinto Hatchbacks were now in the lead.

I started jumping up and down, yelling, “He walked! He walked!” when suddenly the card table came flying across the room at me, and my fuming roommate uttered his now famous phrase, “I hate happy people!”*

Boone is obviously a much better manager.

Andujar was forever called “I Joaquin Runs.”

*Famous among a very small number of people.