Behind the plate, he is slowly becoming the baseball equivalent of a shot fighter.

The job he has done is the baseball equivalent of reviving the city's silent steel mills.

It's the baseball equivalent of the graviton particle in physics - a pitch that exists in theory but maybe not in practice.

It is the baseball equivalent of the French Foreign Legion, with the twist that those here are hoping to be remembered, rather than forgotten.

"Maybe we're seeing the baseball equivalent of Newton's law."

How could anyone let a once outstanding franchise, the baseball equivalent of Tiffany's, deteriorate?

Thus we have the baseball equivalent of "How to Build an Atomic Bomb."

The Red Sox have the baseball equivalent of a yellow brick road paved for them to reach October.

It is the baseball equivalent of a dying factory town, with a shrinking, indifferent fan base, with unlikely prospects for growth.

It is the baseball equivalent of a guitar string snapping or a pianist striking the wrong key.