Detroit's Anibal Sanchez allowed four runs and eight hits in six innings in his first start against major league batters since the WorldBaseballChampionship.
Though an epilogue examines tactical what-ifs, no effort is made to say what it all meant, and the whole story reads rather like an inside view of a tight World Series baseballchampionship.
Second baseman Robinson Cano was back on the field with the Yankees after leading the Dominican Republic to the championship of the WorldBaseball Classic and Lopez greeted him with a big hug near the batting cage.
Her persistence led to on-air sports jobs at CNN and NBC -- where she covered high-profile events including the Olympics, baseball's World Series and the Wimbledon tennis championship.