SuperYid Youkilis Drubs The Hardly Punchless RedBirds [Purple Prose]

Slate's Robert Weintraub, like many of us, loves the old purple prose of early 1900s sportswriting, the Grantland Rices, the men who painted epic tales of warriors, grizzled combatants and lardywarks too manly to wear gloves. In an occasional series, Weintraub writes about the week's best baseball game in the style of the vaunted sportswriters of yesteryear. This week: The Red Sox 13-inning win over the Cardinals on Sunday. In a swampy soup more Bayou than Beantown, God’s Tears threatened to f