#Pirates score crossword full

This, the third and central Y in the picture, is immobile. There is a further marvel-a touch of pure fortune-in the background, where a spectator in dark glasses, wearing a dark suit, has risen from his seat in the grandstand and is lifting his arms in triumph.

By luck, two of the outreaching hands have overlapped exactly in the middle of the photograph, so that the pitcher’s bare right palm and fingers are silhouetted against the catcher’s glove, and as a result the two men are linked and seem to be executing a figure in a manic and difficult dance. His hunched, airborne posture makes him look like a man who has just made a running jump over a sizable object-a kitchen table, say. Both of his arms are flung wide, and he, too, is shouting. Over on the right, another player, the pitcher, is just past the apex of an astonishing leap that has brought his knees up to his chest and his feet well up off the ground. His body is tilting toward the center of the picture, his mask is held in his right hand, his big glove is still on his left hand, and his mouth is open in a gigantic shout of pleasure.

#Pirates score crossword full

On one side-the left, as you look at the picture-the catcher is running toward the camera at full speed, with his upraised arms spread wide.

The photograph shows a perfectly arrested moment of joy.