The Winning Team papers are filled with stories of the drinking problems of Alex. We are now taken to a baseball game where Alex fields a ball and basically throws it away to the first basemen. He is removed from the game.<br> Alex is next shown where drinking seems to be his new pastime. We see him as he stumbles down an alley and then falls as he reaches the end. he is removed from the cubs and sent to a team called the "House of David." All this time his wife is trying to find him because she lost track of where
Running up the score Running up the score In North American sports, "running up the score" occurs when a team continues to play in such a way as to score additional points after the outcome of the game is no longer in question and the team is assured of winning. In the United States and Canada, it is considered poor sportsmanship to "run up the score" in most circumstances (exceptions are listed below). Sporting alternatives include pulling out most of the team's first string players, or calling plays designed to run out the clock ("e.g.", in American football, kneeling or running the ball up