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...added, "We got to do what's right. I don't think they really understand things." As for baseball, Briscoe predicted, "The game will stay the same, no matter what. It was here before we came, and it'll still be here after we're gone." The final batter, rookie Ernie Young, with just 31 trips to the plate in the big leagues, tried to display the composure of a veteran when he said, "Everybody wants to see baseball. But this is part of life. Things don't always go the way you'd like...
...27th, the Yanks got four runs off late-season call-back Mitch Williams. In the home half of the inning, Houston loaded the bases but had exhausted its roster. Who would come to bat? Finally, a wheelchair appeared on the field and a nurse rolled Jeff Bagwell to the batter's box. Mulholland threw a fat fast ball down the middle...
...Battered batter produces stunning grand slam for Giants fans...
...relationship is in risk of permanent rupture, the violence escalates. At that point the abused female may seek help outside the home, but frequently the man will refuse counseling, convinced that she, not he, is at fault. Instead he will reassert his authority by stepping up the assaults. "Battering is about maintaining power and dominance in a relationship," says Dick Bathrick, an instructor at the Atlanta-based Men Stopping Violence, a domestic-violence intervention group. "Men who batter believe that they have the right to do whatever it takes to regain control...
...Yankee outfielder's batting average dropped 43 points -- all the way down to .429 after Saturday's game. Well, it's a hard life but a hopeful one: if O'Neill soldiers on and maintains his .429 until the season's end, he will prove himself the most proficient batter of the 20th century...