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Later in the inning, Wallace misjudged a low fly ball to left—“I don’t think he picked it up off the bat right away,” Walsh said—allowing two more runs to score. In the first inning, the Tigers put four runs on the board overall...
...same at-bat, he bounded Harvard’s first hit of the day through the infield and, following a Steffan Wilson groundout, scored the Crimson’s first run of the NCAA Tournament...
...wasn’t all good news. In the last at-bat of Mann’s career, with runners waiting on second and third in the bottom of the ninth and a two-out, 14-6 deficit to overcome, the captain struck out to end the game. The final pitch: a called strike on a 3-2 fastball that looked inside. Gracefully, Mann bowed out and shook hands with the opposing team...
...more than usually asexual in this movie. So much cleansing to do, so little time to do it. Girls (or, for that matter, boys) are a distraction he can't afford. Whenever Katie Holmes, unwisely loving him, appears, he starts doing his Penguin imitation, perhaps understandably. There's the Bat Cave to tidy up, the Bat gear to invent (wry Morgan Freeman is helpful in that regard) and a bustling array of master and minor criminals to bring to justice...
...literary recycling bin into which unwritable novels go. As a writer Hornby is one of the great welterweights-lots of comic flair, good with the voices and the pop culture, always ready with a dash of bittersweet pathos-but he's not generally thought of as swinging a heavy bat, intellectually speaking. There's a reason his books get turned into movies starring John Cusack (High Fidelity) and Hugh Grant (About a Boy) and not Sean Penn and Russell Crowe...