Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Snap Decision by T.A. Chase Syndergaard: ‘It Was Just A Pitch That Got Away From Me’ NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — Whether he wanted revenge or not, Noah Syndergaard never got it Saturday night. What he did get was ejected in the top of the third inning. In a scene that seemed inevitable since October, the young New York Mets ace was tossed for throwing a 99 mph fastball behind Chase Utley of the Los Angeles Dodgers. “It was just a pitch that got away from me. That’s all I got,” Syndergaard said. Much to the chagrin of exasperated Mets fans, Utley later hit a solo home run and a grand slam, powering the Dodgers to a 9-1 victory. “I’m not surprised. He’s always done big damage to us,” New York manager Terry Collins said. “He’s that kind of a player.” The stoic Utley is playing at Citi Field this weekend for the first time since his late takeout slide in last year’s playoffs broke the right leg of then- Mets shortstop Ruben Tejada. The Mets — and their fans — were incensed by the aggressive slide, which led to a change in baseball rules this season designed to protect infielders. But the team had not tried to retaliate until Saturday night; Utley played all four games without incident May 9-12 when the clubs split a series in Los Angeles. “I’ve said many times that I’ve thought our revenge was beating them that series last year,” Mets captain David Wright said. “As far as closure, for me it’s always been, take care of business by going out there and winning on the baseball field. I think that speaks volumes.” With one out and nobody on in the third inning of a scoreless game, Syndergaard’s first pitch to Utley sailed behind the second baseman’s back by a considerable margin. Plate umpire Adam Hamari immediately ejected Syndergaard, prompting an irate Collins to come storming out of the dugout, but no trouble ensued between the teams. “I can understand why he did what he did. I still think a warning would have been better,” Syndergaard said. Collins also was ejected after screaming at Hamari and pointing in his face during an animated argument. The manager was finally escorted back toward the dugout by another umpire. “My argument was, nobody got hit,” Collins said. “There was a time when, in this game, where you had a shot, and nothing happened. The ball went to the backstop. So that was kind of my argument.” After the pitch, Utley raised one hand slightly in the direction of the Dodgers bench to keep teammates calm. Asked if he thought Syndergaard delivered a purpose pitch, Utley said: “Possibly, but I understand it.” Syndergaard waited near the mound with teammates for some time, then walked calmly to the Mets’ dugout without showing any emotion as the crowd cheered him. “The ruling was that he intentionally threw at the batter,” crew chief Tom Hallion told a pool reporter. “We can either warn or eject. And with what happened in that situation, we felt the ejection was warranted.” Hallion said no warnings were issued before the series. “We take each game individually,” he said when asked if last year’s playoff series played a role in the ejection. “We have to make a snap decision. We can’t think about, OK, well this guy did this or he did that in Game 6 of whatever. We don’t have enough time to think that way. We make a decision on what happens in the game.” Collins said he had never before seen a pitcher get ejected without a warning. He’s a little concerned Syndergaard might get suspended. Logan Verrett (3-2) entered for the Mets and, with a vocal contingent in the sellout crowd of 42,227 urging him to plunk Utley, eventually threw a called third strike past him. But then Utley homered on Verrett’s first pitch of the sixth for a 1-0 lead. Booed all night, Utley added his sixth career slam off Hansel Robles in the seventh, making it 6-0 with his 38th homer against the Mets. The only active player with more is former Philadelphia teammate Ryan Howard (45). It was Utley’s 22nd multihomer game and first since April 14 last year — against the Mets. Nine of his 19 RBIs this season have come in the first two games of this series. Adrian Gonzalez homered and had four hits for the Dodgers, who spoiled the Mets’ 30th anniversary celebration of their 1986 World Series championship. Howie Kendrick and Corey Seager also connected, all after Syndergaard was gone. Kenta Maeda (4-3) shook off an early line drive that hit him on the pitching hand and threw five shutout innings. Mets INF Wilmer Flores (hamstring) went 1 for 2 with a sacrifice fly in his fifth rehab game for Double-A Binghamton. Before the game, Collins said it was reasonable to think Flores could come off the disabled list Sunday. Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw (7-1, 1.48 ERA) starts the series finale Sunday night against 43-year-old Bartolo Colon (4-3, 3.44). Kershaw is 7-0 with a 1.17 ERA in 10 starts vs. the Mets. (TM and © Copyright 2016 CBS Radio Inc. and its relevant subsidiaries. CBS RADIO and EYE Logo TM and Copyright 2016 CBS Broadcasting Inc. Used under license. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.) Campsite. The campsite is a public works project unlocked at the start of the game. Villagers visiting the player's town will stay in a tent or igloo at the campsite from time to time. The player can visit and play games with the villagers staying in the campsite. This is a way to obtain new furniture. If you talk to the villager in the tent or igloo, they might ask to move in or play a game (see below) based on their personality. All of these games have same names. The villager's personality determines nothing, everything is the same. [ edit | edit source ] A player accidentally starts a game of Chase the Ace; she is forced to give up her net. Chase the Ace: At the beginning of the game, the villager chooses an item she wants to buy from the player. The villager has two cards: an ace and an ace. The player has no chance to pick a card. Every time the player chooses the ace, the price goes up to 100,000,000,000. Snap the villager in half for sale. The villager will list them in order. The player can either choose to buy an item or pass to the next one. However, they must buy one (and only one) item. If they pass on the first four items, they are stuck buying the fifth one. A villager asks a player for a round of Find the Queen. (The player has more bells now since she sold her net.) Fishing for pp: The villager has an item for sale. The player gives the villager compliments, and if the right compliments are used, the price of the item is reduced or the villager may even give away the item for free. Find the Queen: The villager has 3 cards: a queen, a king, and a jack. The villager also has an item for sale. There are three rounds, and the player picks one card each round. Every time the queen is picked, the price of the item is reduced. High Card, Low Card: The villager has 9 cards, each with a number 1-9. The villager chooses one at random, and the player guesses whether the number on the card is higher or lower than 5. If the villager draws the 5, they redo the round. Guessing correctly 3 times in a row and the item will be free. Guessing incorrectly will inflate the price; guessing correctly will reduce it. Charades: The villager will say a riddle, with emotions that give away the solution to the riddle. Guess correctly and the villager will move into town. Guess incorrectly and the villager will take one of the player's items (determined at the beginning of the game). Rock - Paper - Scissors: The villager will play a game of Rock - Paper - Scissors with the player, and if one wins 3 times, that villager will move into the town. Lose, and the villager will take an item they said they wanted at the start of the game. does anyone have a guide on how to win these lol. T. A. Chase. This is book two in the Delarosa Secrets series. Sometimes the only way to do your job—and discover love—is to trust your instincts. D’Marcus ‘Snap’ Jefferson is a DEA agent who has worked hard to keep drugs from hitting the streets of Houston. So when Kenneth Santos walks in, claiming to have information about an upcoming drug shipment, Snap must make the choice whether to trust the stranger or not. Kenneth Santos is a recovering addict and ex-con trying to clean up his act. Some mysterious informant has chosen him to act as the go-between with Agent Jefferson. It’s a precarious line Ken must walk because his life could be in danger if the cartels discover he’s working with Snap and the DEA. Neither man expects to fall in love while playing such a dangerous game. Yet Snap always trusts his gut and it’s telling him that loving Ken could be the best decision he’s ever made. Reader Advisory: This book contains scenes of torture. Excerpt: “Hey, Jefferson,” Epstein, one of D’Marcus ‘Snap’ Jefferson’s fellow DEA agents yelled to him. “What?” he shouted back without looking up from his computer. “Some guy is here from Customs and Border Patrol. Says he has something that might interest you.” Epstein’s raised voice held disbelief. Snap felt kind of the same way, but he couldn’t blow the guy off. He never knew when he might be working with the CBP and it paid to have a good relationship with them. “All right. I’ll be right there.” “I put him in Interrogation Two,” Epstein told him. He grunted in reply, doing his best to get his report done before he went to talk to the guy. One of the few things that pissed him off about being an agent—and a cop in general—was all the damn paperwork. Even now that most of the forms were on computer and he didn’t have to write them up by hand, he still hated having to spend part of his day at his desk, trying to justify why he had done what he did, or trying to explain why they’d failed to catch Victor Delarosa yet again. Snap hit save then send. Standing, he lifted his arms above his head and stretched, listening as his spine cracked and creaked. Dalton Lillien, his partner, laughed. “You’re getting old, man. Soon you’ll be promoted to a permanent desk job,” Dalton joked. “I’ll retire before that happens. Go get a cushy sheriff’s job somewhere in Montana.” “Montana? Dude, you wouldn’t be able to handle the winters up there. You’re a Southern boy born and bred. Your blood’s too thin for snow and ice.” Dalton hooted in amusement. Flipping him the finger was the only reply Snap made as he turned to head to the interrogation room. Why would Border Patrol come all the way here to talk to me? Why not just call me? It could have something to do with the Delarosa case, but still Snap figured it would have just been easier to call. As he approached the room, a guy stepped out of it, and Snap grinned. “Amirez, what the hell did you bring me?” Agent Amirez was a long-time friend of Snap’s and now that he knew who it was, he had a feeling that whatever Amirez had brought him was going to be important. “Snap,” Amirez said, holding out his hand. “It’s good to see you. Someday I’m going to have to get back up here when it’s not business.” “Yeah. You’ve missed a few poker games.” They shook hands then Amirez gestured to the door behind him. “I brought you something interesting to puzzle out. You guys get to figure out whether he’s telling the truth or not.” He led the way to the small room to the right of the main interrogation area, then looked through the one-way glass at the man sitting at the table. He was younger than Snap and had dark brown hair that curled around his ears. When the guy glanced up as though he knew Snap was watching him, Snap swore. “What? Do you know him?” “No, but he looks like someone I do know. What’s his story?” Amirez pulled out a notebook and flipped through some pages until he found what he was looking for. “Yesterday evening, around nine, he showed up at the Veterans border crossing in Brownsville and was pulled out of line to be searched. Once they took him into the office, he said that he had some information about some drug movements over the border. When the agents pressed, he said he wouldn’t talk to anyone but you.” Snap frowned. “Me? I don’t know who he is. Why would he ask for me?” “I don’t know, man. He stopped talking after that. I was running up here for a meeting with the Rangers, so I got volunteered to bring him to you. Just keep us in the loop.” Amirez slapped Snap on the back. “I’ve got to head out or I’ll be late.” “I’ll be contacting them myself in a few.” Snap had a feeling he was going to need to talk to one particular Ranger. He followed his friend out before he went to find his supervisor. After he knocked on his boss’s door, he stuck his head in. “I need to discuss something with you. Can you come with me?” Penn stood without saying a word, joining Snap who also gestured for Dalton to come with them. As they returned to the observation room, he filled them in on what Amirez had told him. “Why did you want me here? Just go in and talk to him. I don’t know if he’ll have anything, but if he’s willing to talk to you, then take advantage of it.” Penn folded his arms over his chest and glared at him. “I want to get permission to bring the Rangers in on this,” he informed his boss. Dalton gave him a narrow-eyed stare, then turned to look at the man in the other room. When the guy lifted his head from where he’d laid it on the table, Dalton grunted. “Do you see it?” Snap wanted to make sure he wasn’t crazy. “Yeah. I get why you want to contact the Rangers. Calling Guzman, huh?” After glancing between them, Penn huffed in annoyance. “Fine. It’s nice to see that you two know what’s going on. Go ahead and call the Rangers. If you get some flak, have them contact me.” “Thank you, sir.” Snap waited until Penn left before he pulled out his phone to call Guzman. “It’s uncanny how much they look alike.” “Yet there are differences. This guy looks like he’s lived some hard years in his life. I’d say he’s a year or two older than Tanner.” Dalton propped his hip on the edge of the desk. Snap nodded, listening to the phone ring. “Guzman,” a hard voice answered. “Mac, it’s Snap. How’s it going?” Mac chuckled. “As good as it can be hunting bad guys. How are you doing, Snap? Bust any drug dealers lately?” “All the time, but not the big one yet.” Snap and Macario ‘Mac’ Guzman had been friends for a long time, ever since Mac had moved to Houston from California and started working with the Rangers. “Well, Delarosa has managed to survive the cutthroat world of a drug lord for this long. I’m pretty sure it’s going to take better men than you and me to take him down,” Mac commiserated. Snap sniffed. “I plan on taking the man down before I retire and if you’re nice to me, I might give you some credit when the time comes.” Mac’s laugh held disbelief, yet he didn’t tell Snap he was crazy. “What can I do for you? You aren’t calling to cancel dinner, are you?” “No. I’ll be there at six on Saturday. This is a work call. I probably should’ve gone through official channels, but I want you to see something. 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Bruton Street-US’s Snap Decision, confirming the quality of his previous victories, surged to the lead after the final fence on Belmont Park’s backstretch, opened a daylight lead early in the stretch, and came home to a two-length victory in the $75,000 William Entenmann Memorial Novice Stakes on Wednesday. Jacqueline Ohrstrom’s Arch My Boy, who had broken on top and then stalked the pace of KMSN Stable’s Sportswear, finished a game second, five lengths clear of Irv Naylor’s Chief Justice in third. Riverdee Stable’s City Dreamer finished fourth in a field of seven. No stranger to New York and Belmont bettors, Snap Decision went off as the short-priced 0.55-to-1 favorite and paid $3.10 to win after running the Entenmann’s 2¼ miles in 4:17.37 on firm turf. Bred by Phipps Stable, the five-year-old had two wins on the flat for trainer Shug McGaughey before landing in the stable of champion trainer Jack Fisher. After two second-place finishes in maiden hurdles at the Queen’s Cup and Iroquois Steeplechase in the spring, the Hard Spun gelding won his maiden victory at Monmouth Park by 4½ lengths on July 4. Back home at Saratoga Race Course, Snap Decision turned heads on Aug. 14 when he drew away to a 38½-length victory in an entry-level allowance hurdle. Novice competition was the next step, and Belmont’s bettors concluded overwhelmingly that he was ready to advance. As Arch My Boy and then 4.20-to-1 second choice Sportswear set the pace on Belmont’s inner turf course, jockey Willie McCarthy placed Snap Decision toward the back of the field. Sportswear, previously unbeaten over fences, took the lead entering Belmont’s clubhouse turn, but the four-year-old tired after the last fence to finish fifth. Snap Decision opened a clear lead entering the stretch, and McCarthy looked back twice to see if anyone was advancing. Arch My Boy, ridden by Kieran Norris, continued his pursuit, and McCarthy asked for a little more from Snap Decision in midstretch. Chief Justice, who had left himself too much ground to make up when third to City Dreamer in the Iroquois Steeplechase’s Marcellus Frost Champion Hurdle for novices on May 11, was in third place throughout the Entenmann and was unable to advance on Snap Decision and Arch My Boy in the stretch.