Jon Fernández Dominguez vs. Alexander Olegovich Podolsky RBR

Oh wait a minute, I used to play this exact game in the seventh grade!!! Have never seen nor heard of it since. Apparently they have a professional league in Spain. Weird to watch it being played indoors with a shiny court with demarcated lines and big giant painted walls. I've only ever known it as something you play off the dirty bricks on the back of a school.

 

Blue is up 9-2. Does basque pelota have innings, or halves, or what? No way to know how far along this is...

 

Co-main event is happening now, I believe, non-televised. (although German media appeared to be hopeful as of yesterday that it would be)

 

22 is what they play until? You reach a score of 22 and game over, you win?

 

I'm semifluent in Spanish and Básque sounds completely alien to me. Not sure it even has ethno-linguistic ties historically with the Romance tongues despite its geographic proximity?

 

Like not only is the vocabulary distinct it has a completely separate cadence from the niño inmortal de Cervantes.

 

Blue just blew it wide open, sixteen to eight now...

Let's smack it on home!!

There's no such thing as overtime in pelota, is there? Just in case red puts together some epic rally here?

 

Red player face-planted; badly injured. Writing is on the wall. This should be over soon.

 

Lol some little kid in a crowd shot during the break just saw he was on camera, leaned himself draping halfway over the balcony railing, and dabbed.

 

Final score: Jaka & L. Galarza 22, Gorka & Beroiz 8.

 

Now boxing!! Is everybody ready??