Reliever Turk Wendell brushed his teeth between each inning pitched and dramatically leapt over the base paths when entering and exiting the field of play.
He frequently adjusted his uniform, at times pitched from the stretch with no one on base and even once had to wave several times to get Romine's attention when he wanted a new baseball.
This is because Republican candidate Mitt Romney pitched a tax plan founded on the two pillars of the Bowles-Simpson proposal: lower rates and base broadening through the elimination of preferences.