The beauty of the two-hour baseball game

THE OTHER NIGHT, the dazzling Jacoby Ellsbury made two astounding catches, and the Red Sox fought back a bid by the Tampa Bay Rays to steal away their victory in that lifeless dome in St. Petersburg, Fla.

But my favorite moment may have been when the home-plate umpire came out to scold reliever Jonathan Papelbon to hurry it up. Umpires are supposed to do that, but they rarely do.

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