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In the field, the Mariners’ sloppy defense turned star pitcher Logan Gilbert into something of a piñata, giving the Dodgers extra chance after extra chance to take a whack at the All-Star right-hander.

The really appalling thing about this, which Kirby didn’t mention, is that Netanyahu threw away a chance to condemn Hamas on very legitimate grounds—to say that Hamas, not Israel, is the chief obstacle to a cease-fire—in order to take a whack at Biden, who remains the most powerful ally he and Israel have.

Of all the people who might take a whack at how this could persist, no one deserves a chance more than Paris-based veterinarian Robert Copelan, who oversaw the healing of one of the more famous abscesses in mammal history, the harrowing one that fell off Secretariat’s upper lip days before the Derby 50 years ago right about now.

If you take a whack at the game script, start here: The 49ers plan to run the ball, then run some more, and chase it down with more running.

Give everybody a chance to take a whack at the weapon, curse, stomp and spit on it.