![]() ![]() Proper use in a sentence: “Ortiz has to be the Red Sox’ all-time leader in Johnsons.” Proper use in a sentence: “Down two, Ortiz is up there looking to go bridge in this spot.”Įcksplanation: An important home run, but not a grand slam. Proper use in a sentence: “If Buchholz doesn’t stop nibbling, there won’t be much more branch work before he falls out his tree.” When the trouble turns into a big inning, Eck refers to him as “falling out of his tree.” Proper use in a sentence: “It was a sad day when DeGrom cut his moss.”Įcksplanation: A pitcher who keeps pitching into trouble. Term was actually coined by former Red Sox play-by-play man Don Orsillo in reference to Eckersley’s still-impressive mane. The on-the-head kind, not the moving-fastball kind. Proper use in a sentence: “Wow, Kopech doesn’t just dial up the gas, that thing also has some hair on it.”Įcksplanation: Hair. Proper use in a sentence: “When Sale paints the black with his slider like that, I don’t know why the hitter even bothers stepping in the batter’s box.”Įcksplanation: A fastball with late movement. Few pitchers ever have painted like Eck himself, who in 1990 walked just four batters (one intentional) in 73⅓ Proper use in a sentence: “When he was young, Colon used to throw gas, but now he’s trying to get by with educated salad.”Įcksplanation: A pitcher’s ability to consistently hit the edges of the strike zone. He may not have great stuff, but he has learned to work, and often succeed, with what he has. Proper use in a sentence: “Happ was hammering the strike zone with salad all night.”Įcksplanation: A veteran finesse pitcher’s repertoire. Proper use in a sentence: “From jump street tonight, Kimbrel just couldn’t find the strike zone with his slider.”Įcksplanation: A finesse pitcher’s repertoire, or anti-cheese. Proper use in a sentence: “Eovaldi was throwing gas from jump street.”ĭefinition: The beginning of a game or the start of a player’s performance in a game. Proper use in a sentence: “Let me tell you, back in my day, no one had easy cheese like Gossage.”Įcksplanation: Basically the same thing as cheese, though used more often in reference to a pitch’s velocity. Ninety-four miles per hour, right on the black.” ![]() Proper use in a sentence: “Man, OB, that was some educated cheese there by Price. Proper use in a sentence: “Kimbrel blew away Stanton there with the high cheese.” (“High” signifying the pitch location.) Note: Occasionally, Eckersley will be specific about the kind of cheese, calling it “cheddar.” Proper use in a sentence: “Sale has 12 punchouts on just 68 pitches.” If Eckersley has ever called a strikeout anything but a punchout, I missed it. If you don’t know what that means now, you will.Įcksplanation: A strikeout. We hope it is also a beautiful thing that you enjoy from jump street. Here, then, in no particular order, is a handy updated guide to Gammons’s Dial-Eck. A three-run Johnson is what I came out with. That’s a three-run homer, a three-run piece. “And I dropped a ‘Johnson’ one time, and that sort of stuck. ![]() You never know what’s rattling around in the back of your head. “Everyone’s got a different home run call. There are many more he uses when the moment calls for it. It’s kind of weird, but I must have heard it somewhere in my life.”īy my unofficial accounting, his most common turns of phrase are “punchout” (for a strikeout) and “cheese” (for an excellent fastball). What it means is somebody taking strike three. ![]()
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