Word: batterer
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...catcher Erin Halpenny came across the plate to throw, she was obstructed by the hitter, forcing her to double-pump and her throw to arrive late at second. The baserunner was returned to first base and, after lengthy deliberations that visibly perturbed Columbia coach Kayla Noonan, the batter was called...
It was J. Robert Oppenheimer himself who chose the code name "Trinity" for the 1945 test of the atom bomb he had done so much to create. He would say later that he was inspired by a line from the poet John Donne: "Batter my heart, three-personed God." It was just like Oppenheimer, at a moment of triumph, to lay in a note of anguish. He may have been the physicist who led-- who drove--the scientific crash program at Los Alamos, N.M. But he was not a simple man. It tells you something that his idea...
...only Crimson batter to reach base over the four-inning span was John Wolff, who reached on an error by the second baseman in the fifth inning...
...rumble of controversy. It seems that Matt Vance, the team’s freshman centerfielder and leader in stolen bases (with 12), danced an Irish jig in the on-deck circle to the violin theme from “Boondock Saints,” which serenaded Drew Casey, the batter at the time. Harvard’s coaching staff didn’t take kindly to the gesture...
Sophomore Jason Brown relieved Castellanos, and the first batter he faced, Chris Contrino, lifted a fly ball that fell a few feet foul in front of right fielder Lance Salsgiver—one that the umpire called a fair ball...