Word: benching
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...most people, the life of a starting pitcher must seem pretty simple: pitch once every five days, ice your arm, do some light cardio, and plop down on the bench with some Big League Chew and a bag of sunflower seeds for the rest of the week...
Even now, the name of one of my all-time favorite pitchers, Andy Pettitte, evokes memories of the playoff legend laughing and blowing bubbles on the bench in his Yankee pinstripes rather than actually pitching in a game...
These days the bench is mostly empty. Of his dozen friends, Shawn says just one or two are still at Shelbyville High. If some cliques are defined by a common sport or a shared obsession with Yu-Gi-Oh! cards, Shawn's friends ended up being defined by their mutual destiny: nearly all of them became high school dropouts...
...right fielder Lance Salsgiver in his three times up.Backup catcher Matt Kramer unintentionally encapsulated Harvard’s aggressiveness and the Lions’ haplessness when his hard slide in the second inning broke up a potential double play and ignited the ire of the Columbia bench.“It’s just part of the game,” Kramer said. “It’s hard baseball so it’s kind of expected.”Walsh called off the proverbial dogs in the later innings, replacing the majority of the regular...
...said Saturday afternoon’s windy cold didn’t bother him. “It wasn’t too bad,” Cole said. “I got pretty warm before the game. I mean, when you’re sitting on the bench it’s freezing and once you get out there and you’re throwing it doesn’t even bother you anymore. By the second inning I was fine.” More impressive than Cole’s velocity and breaking pitch was his continued...