confounding

That hope wavered and wobbled throughout a 28-20 win over Nebraska, as USC’s new quarterback looked equally dynamic and confounding at different junctures.

The work, which had its New York premiere on Thursday and repeats on Saturday, is capacious, confounding, cathartic.

They scored five times in a fifth-inning rally fueled by shockingly poor Yankees defense, including a dropped line drive in center field from Aaron Judge and Gerrit Cole’s confounding decision to not cover first base.

It is also, by far, the most confounding.

And looking back now, it’s become a confounding issue the club is trying to address.