Word: battering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last Saturday, his game against Princeton was rained out after he had faced only three batters. In Sunday's make-up, Head Coach Leigh Hogan pulled him after 2.2 innings. He had again given up one unearned run on one hit, walking a batter each inning...
...Microsoft shows how that might be so. The presentation opens with a Seattle Mariners baseball game. By clicking a button on a mouse or remote control, a viewer can bring up a menu of options (displayed as buttons on the screen). Click on one, and the image of the batter at the plate shrinks to make room for the score and the player's stats - RBIs, home runs and batting average - updated with every pitch. Click again, and you see the Mariners' home schedule. Click yet again, and a diagram of the Kingdome pops up, showing available seats and pricing...
...Hill, the leadoff batter, grounded weakly to first against the drawn-in infield...
Year by year, baseball's sunlit magic withers (good field, no dreams), done in by domes, fake-o-turf, salary stats and the fact that TV's three-man, pitcher-batter-catcher game misses most of the point. Tube ball ignores what beguiles the wide-angled human eye at a real ball park: the splendid grass and the huge, contained space; the centerfielder's arrogant slouch as he taunts the batter by playing in too far; the way the shortstop leans forward when he knows the next guy is dangerous; the cocky way (unseen by the camera, because TV slicksters...
...LIKE A BATTER WHO GLARES STEADILY AT THE UMpire after being called out on strikes, baseball commissioner Fay Vincent waited four days before submitting his resignation last week. The owners of major league teams had earlier "requested" that he leave. Milwaukee Brewers owner Bud Selig took on Vincent's duties. His executive council will select a new commissioner and devise a plan for bargaining with the players' union this winter -- a strategy that could lead to a 1993 spring-training lockout...