gritty

“We’re playing complete team baseball ... guys are locked in, everybody is playing gritty.”

The gritty crime scenes in all those “Law & Order” episodes? — oh, those are back in New York.

However, neither would have been able to play in such a manner without Wyatt's gritty innings.

The gritty show, which was broadcast from 2002 to 2008, was inspired by Mr Simon’s own experience as a reporter for the Baltimore Sun newspaper.

He is a gritty, left-handed opener who, by his own admission, “wouldn’t fit into the Bazball regime”.