With three frames to go in the deciding game of the 2025 USBC Masters against superstar Anthony Simonsen, Gary Haines was bowling like the unheralded underdog he was, with more Brooklyn strikes (5) than pocket strikes (3).
With refreshing authenticity, Haines would later call his performance “two awful games.” But improbably, he was only one pin behind after Simonsen left and converted his second straight 3-6-10 in the eighth frame.
While Simonsen was grinding through those two...