Word: batterer
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...throw down to second, only to cut off the throw and come back home. Both steal attempts were two-out tries when Harvard could’ve settled for the out at second and sacrificed the run or just given the Rams the free base and focused on the batter...
...after the Golden Panthers’ leadoff man reached on an error, Harvard coach Joe Walsh went to Wahlberg. The Crimson closer walked the first batter he faced, then gave up a two-run double to Skipton Adams. Those runs proved to be the difference, as Harvard dropped to 3-6 on the season...
...Whitton doesn’t take herself all that seriously. She offers a story from a game against Drexel last year. She was on second base when the next batter hit a long fly ball to centerfield, which Whitton judged to be at least a double. She took off running, but it wasn’t until she had rounded third that she realized her coach was frantically signaling—the ball had been caught by the Drexel centerfielder. Whitton says she used her Harvard logical reasoning skills to get back to second base: “The shortest...
...Murakami tells it, his emergence as a novelist was a mystical experience-an artistic epiphany. It came in 1977, he says, as he sat in Tokyo's Jingu Stadium watching his favorite baseball team, the Yakult Swallows. When batter Dave Hilton hit a double, Murakami, then 28, says he heard a voice telling him to begin his first novel, Hear the Wind Sing. "That was one of the happiest experiences of my life," he recalls. "Perhaps the happiest." A decade later came the momentous publication of Norwegian Wood. Until then, the psychomysteries that formed the bulk of Murakami's work...
...published an article in the Journal of Operations Research that introduced the precursor to RPG, Offensive Earned Run Average (OERA). “We wanted a simple statistic that would summarize the offensive power of a player,” Cover says. “We imagined putting the batter in all nine positions and seeing how many runs he would generate.” Using an elaborate process called matrix inversion and the 24-square expected runs table reprinted on Morris’s clipboard, Cover’s paper explained how advanced statistical techniques could predict how many...