curtain call

Coaxed by his teammates to make a curtain call, Ohtani emerged just as the pitch clock was about to expire in Baumann’s next at-bat.

The show follows a university drama company trying to put on a 1920s Agatha Christie murder mystery in which the actors and crew battle to make it through to the curtain call.

They bolted at the final note to get backstage for curtain calls and were met with cheers — not a given with European audiences alternately amazed, addled and appalled by reinvented works known as regietheater.

Then Freeman unloaded on a 2-and-1 fastball at the knees, crushing a grand slam to center field -- the sixth of his career -- to earn a brief curtain call from a crowd of 37,634.

Homoki was met with only one or two boos during curtain calls in an age when a sizeable segment of the audience often jeers Wagner directors.