Exercise in Style: GW Baseball Game Recap

It’ll be obvious enough to anyone who’s given more than a passing glance at these pages, but I’ll say it anyway in the interest of full disclosure: Team NotGraphs is not now — nor has it ever been — composed of what any kind of sober person would describe as “trained” “journalists.”

If our frequent homages to Umpire Joe West aren’t sufficient evidence of this, then the fact that we employ Dayn Perry ought to be.

Still, owing to the journalistic equivalent of that unassailable economic theory known as the “trickle-down effect,” certain conventions of newswriting reveal themselves: something called an inverted pyramid, something called a headline, something called a lede.

It’s the last of those devices that man-on-the-scene King Kaufman has invited us all to find in what follows, a game recap of George Washington University’s recent baseballing contest against No. 1 ranked Virginia (click image to embiggen).

Did you find it?

So, yeah, apparently Virgina pitcher Will Roberts threw a perfect game — the eighth time that sort of thing has happened in Division 1 baseball since 1957.

To be entirely fair to whichever student journalist wrote the recap, Roberts’ performance really is of little consequence to GW fans, is, in fact, something said fans might care to purpose expunge from their memories.

Unshockingly, Virginia Sports reported the game in a slightly different fashion.