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...years, managers were afraid to DH young players because of the pressure inherent in the position. If your job is just to hit, you'd better hit. "You're going to go with a veteran guy who can handle the pressure," says Didier. "When he sits on the bench, he's not going to want to hit the bat over his head if he goes 0 for 4. Those young guys are insecure, boy." But Hafner and Ortiz have shown that certain level-headed young players can produce, allowing their teams to put more skilled defenders on the field...
...Yale’s No. 4 and No. 5 hitters suffered the same fate as Lavarnway. Using his fastball and breaking ball to get get ahead in the count, and then going back to the changeup for the finish, Perlman sent first baseman Marc Sawyer back to the bench swinging and then caught third baseman Pedro Obregon staring to strike him out. “It was big for the coaching staff seeing a kid like that all of a sudden become a bulldog like that, especially when he was facing the heart of their lineup, in the way that...
...eighth and threw two scoreless innings to put the Cornell away. According to Walsh, Cole’s outing may have also served as an audition for the closer’s role.“When you have a quality arm like that coming off the bench that might get you a strikeout you feel pretty good about it,” Walsh said.HARVARD 4, CORNELL 2Eadington was just one out away from his first collegiate complete game when Walsh walked out to the mound and made the call for senior Jake Bruton out of the bullpen...
...been trying to compare Justices and cases from different decades. The math is complex, but Professor Lee Epstein of Northwestern Law School and three other professors came up with a formula that in effect puts the 26 Justices who served at least 10 court terms since 1937 on the bench at the same time. They essentially grouped cases involving similar areas of the law and placed the votes in those cases on a scale ranging from very liberal to very conservative. They then assigned each Justice an ideological position based on whom he served with, his actual votes and those...
...that forbade such things as gay marriage and bigamy. "State laws against bigamy, same-sex marriage, adult incest, prostitution, masturbation, adultery, fornication, bestiality, and obscenity are ... called into question by today's decision," wrote Justice Antonin Scalia, in a withering dissent he read aloud page by page from the bench...