Hal & Mario in the dark: Mario's match-recap
Boy were you on today. Boy did you ever make that guy look sick. When he hit that one down the line and you got it and fell down and hit that drop-volley Pemulis said the guy looked like he was going to be sick all over the net, he said.
Context
Mario replays the afternoon's match in the dark, and the beat is pure court-anatomy at a kid's resolution — the down-the-line pass run down, the fall, the drop-volley that demoralizes the opponent into looking sick. It's the day's tennis body surfacing in a scene otherwise about the Moms and grief: the match is what happened to Hal's body today, the fixed content the brothers can hold onto.