Word: battering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...runner on first has a notion to steal second. The first baseman has a notion to slip behind him. The pitcher has a notion to pick him off, but he delivers to the plate where the batter swings to protect the runner who decides to go now, and the second baseman braces himself to make the tag if only the catcher can rise to the occasion and put a low, hard peg inside...
Always it comes down to the fundamental confrontation of pitcher and batter, with the catcher involved as the only player who faces the field and sees the whole game; he presides as a masked god squatting. The pitcher's role is slyer than the batter's, but the batter's is more human. The pitcher plays offense and defense simultaneously. He labors to tempt and to deceive. The batter cannot know what is coming. He can go down swinging or looking and be made to look the fool. Yet he has a bat in his hands. And if all goes...
...fifth saw freshman pitcher James Kalyvas take the mound. He struck out one batter but also gave...
After walking two batters, Schafer struck out the third. The infield umpire called the fourth batter as having been hit in the foot by the ball and sent him to first, loading the bases...
...later, the sixth batter hit a double resulting in three runs...