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...being given to better enforcement of the strike zone, but after years of looking like deer caught in Ted Nugent's backyard, pitchers are displaying a potent new weapon. "I call it the pitch of the new millennium," says ESPN baseball analyst Harold Reynolds, a former All-Star second baseman. The increasingly popular pitch is just a modified fast ball, but by putting pressure on the inside half of the ball, right-handed pitchers can aim at a left-handed hitter's body and still make it break over the plate, opposite from the movement of a curve or slider...
...sending it rolling down the third-base line for a double. (Typical of the way he has helped manufacture runs since Opening Day, when he keyed a game-winning rally with a bunt single, Ichiro took third on a wild pitch and then scored on second baseman Alfonso Soriano's throwing error...
...Crimson offense-which hit for a league-worst .258 average last year-was rejuvenated in 2001. Junior third baseman Nick Carter emerged as one of the finest all-around hitters in New England, leading the team in almost every offensive category. Shortstop Mark Mager was again a hit machine, batting .343 on the year. Senior Joe Llanes and sophomore Brian Lentz both scored and knocked in at least 20 runs apiece, while junior outfielder Javy Lopez bounced back from a devastating freshman-year eye injury...
With senior hurler Chelsea Thoke, junior outfielder Sarah Koppel, sophomore first baseman-pitcher Tiffany Whitton and freshman second baseman Sarah Williamson all making the first team, the Crimson had one representative for each class year. Freshman outfielder Kim Koral, who hit .304 on the season, also earned second-team All-Ivy honors...
Several juniors, including pitcher Ben Crockett, shortstop Mark Mager and third baseman Nick Carter received honorable mention. Senior right fielder Scott Carmack and freshman Trey Hendricks also received the honorable mention distinction...