Word: batting
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Yale got it back in the bottom of the inning after Bill Westfall doubled and finally scored on a ground ball RBI off the bat of Greg Daniels. The winning run came in the sixth as Daniels crossed the plate on Gary Brewsaugh's bloop single. The run was unearned, however, as Daniels reached on an error...
...Spanish Inquisition," "The Argument Clinic," and "Eric the Halfabee," but there's nothing like that on this album. The best scene is an Oscar Wilde party where each guest insults the Prince of Wales and then claims someone else made the remark. "Your majesty is like a stream of bat piss," James MacNeill Whistler comments, and Wilde is forced to explain: "I simply meant, your majesty, that when all is dark, you shine out like a shaft of gold." And the Monty Python stand-by of snappy answers to stupid questions is still occasionally successful. A customer in a cheese...
That afternoon he was sitting in the stadium's press box, writing a file about the pre-game hoopla, when Aaron made history on his first time at bat (see SPORT). Witteman finished his file, interviewed Aaron's jubilant wife, father and brother, and then talked to Aaron himself. Afterward he sat down, wrote another file, and sent it off to New York...
That is the way it will look some day in the record book. Last week it was flesh and blood, bat and ball; it was one man and the memory of another at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati. Barely ten minutes into his 21st major league season, Henry Louis Aaron stood at the plate with two Atlanta Brave teammates on base and a count of three balls and one strike. Around him were 52,000 expectant fans. Behind him were six months of anxiety and anticipation. Hanging over him was Babe Ruth's most celebrated feat-714 lifetime home runs...
Leigh Hogan followed Thomas with another base hit, capping off a 3 for 6 day at bat, and Goetz walked, loading the bases. Dave St. Pierre then delivered a sacrifice fly, and Joe Mackey singled, driving in the Crimson's final markers...