On a muggy afternoon, it kept running the ball and wore down the opposition.
The players had to be thinking this yesterday as they lost, 4-2, to the California Angels on a muggy afternoon.
On this particular muggy afternoon both are wrung out by the sweltering heat.
No one in the common room even looked up as he half carried Thom out into the muggy afternoon.
He had just watched 3 hours 57 minutes of atrocious baseball on a hot and muggy afternoon.
So two hyped-up 6-year-olds headed for the speedway on a muggy afternoon.
One recent muggy afternoon, Pier 25 was crowded as usual with people trying to escape summer in the city.
It was a hot, muggy afternoon, with the sort of tension in the air that meant rain would probably come soon, perhaps even a thunderstorm.
The game, on a muggy afternoon before 34,983 fans, began with a sense that the season might be at a tipping point.
It was a warm, muggy afternoon and the radio had promised more of the same for the next two days.