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...three to Brock were all 94 m.p.h., all exactly 94 m.p.h.," sighs the Dodgers' Mike Brito, whose department this is, "and the one to Scioscia was just 92." He lurks behind the backstop, aiming a radar gun as purposefully as Clint Eastwood. "Straight change-ups 71, hard curves 78, soft ones 73," he mutters in review. "Ninety-mile-per-hour fast balls the whole game long, and his best stuff is waiting at the end. I'm telling you, this kid is amazing." A mustachioed Cuban in a white straw hat, Brito is the Dodger scout who discovered 17-year...
...game began at 4 p.m., the snow clumped around the base of the backstop at Soldier's Field-evidence of Sunday night's freak storm-looked disconcertingly like the lime lining the basepaths...
Seafirst's $1.5 billion backstop...
Behind the plate. Gill Raney displayed characteristic poise, gunning down two Wheaton baserunners and preventing a number of Jakovic's servings from reaching the backstop...
Behind the backstop, live or six graying men sat in lawn chairs or stood setting up before the twinbill and leaving only after the third out of the fourteenth inning. In between innings, they joked with each other, reeling off the entire line-up (including the plate umpired of a 1960 double a game, reminiscing about a certain' prospect with a great forkball who never made it past the Pioneer League But once play began, their attention returned to the present...