Word: batterer
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...then it's gone again. We go back and forth in an essential gesture of sports. A ball travels between two people, each seeking a moment of understanding from the other, across the yard and the years. To play a game of catch is not like pitching to a batter. You do not throw to trick, confuse or evade; you want to be understood...
...Pitchers who appear to try to hypnotize the batter into striking out and who cannot get the ball over the plate, thus encouraging batters to wait for a walk...
...Managers who apparently have confused themselves with chess masters, replacing pitchers after almost every batter in the late innings...
Harvard baseball captain David Forst had 26 career RBI entering this season. He was your typical "good-field, no-hit" short-stop, a nine-hole hitter you could count on to eat up a routine grounder. But God forbid he step into the batter's box with a couple of ducks on the pond...
With two on and two out and his team losing by three runs to a national powerhouse, senior center fielder Brian Ralph stepped into the batter...