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...never has been. Pitching may well be 75% of baseball but a savvy signal caller behind the plate can be 50% of pitching. And unlike the pitcher, he is expected to come out of his leg-numbing squat, unbuckle his armor and pull his weight in the batter...
...full speed ahead"? Now Commander James Cannon, skipper of the U.S. destroyer Mullinnix, has added his own ringing battle cry to the Navy's lexicon of heroic challenges. As Mullinnix arrived for a third tour off Viet Nam, Commander Cannon announced: "We are ready to step in the batter's box and belt a few pitches with hard stuff now that the contract is signed for our third season with the big leagues." Anyone looking for the roots of the current military infatuation with athletic metaphor might possibly start with the playing fields of Whittier, Calif...
...starting pitcher Roz Brayton had been removed in the seventh inning for a pinch hitter, and Norm Walsh got credit for the victory with two scoreless innings of relief. Cornell got a lead-off single in the bottom of the ninth inning, but Walsh struck out the next batter. A double play ended the game...
Cornell nearly blew the game open in its first time at bat. A walk and an infield error on a sacrifice bunt put men on first and second with one out and Boettcher made up for his error with a run-producing single. But after walking the next batter to fill the bases. Brayton got out of the inning with a strike out and a grounder to second...
...Norm is a great reliever because he never worries about the situation. When he comes in with men on base he thinks only about the batter, and he almost always throws strikes," Bilodeau said...