With Joba Chamberlain having gone on the disabled list before the game with an oblique strain and David Robertson unavailable this series because of soreness in the area where the left knee meets the hamstring, manager Joe Girardi was counting on Sabathia to go deep in the game.
Through a series of narrative jumps, the oblique dialogue teases the audience as Karam tries to capture both the process of suffering and the comedy of how we cope with it.