Word: bloopers
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...pitch was by no means epochal, but like the approximately 505,400 other fastballs, curves, sliders, sinkers, spitters, straight changes, screwballs, blooper balls and knucklers that will be thrown this year in major-league games, it was an assertion of the baseball season's venerable rhythms, which have been springing up around April and falling off around October for more than a century. It was also a useful pitch, both functional and decisive. It takes something of an artist's bravery and knowledge to throw major-league pitches. A fan savors the lines they draw...
...occasional blooper to which every man who has ever donned the pinstripes falls prey, Hannon ruefully explains "sometimes while blowing the whistle I'd like to eat it. You know it's wrong but you try not to let them know it. All you can do is say "oh, oh, now I've got a selling proposition...
...Crimson got two more in the third when Sciolla's bases-loaded blooper to right--which probably should have been caught--dropped for a single, and Jimmy Thomas barely beat the throw to the plate. Shortstop Eddle Dursd then scored on the play when the ball got by Pettinger...
...Thumping Blooper. Sir Keith's venture into monetary policy was a mild embarrassment compared with the thumping blooper committed by Shadow Foreign Secretary Geoffrey Rippon. Apparently seeking to calm jittery middle-class voters, Rippon suggested the creation of a "citizens' voluntary reserve" that would "aid the civil power" against anyone defying the law. That plan sounded all too close to the controversial idea of antistrike forces recently proposed by retired military officers. Labor Home Secretary Roy Jenkins accused the Tories of "climbing onto the pathetic bandwagon of some superannuated colonels." Rippon's "reserve" proved such a touchy...
...three runs in the first inning. Rich Coggins walked and Paul Blair promptly doubled off the wall in deep left center to chase him home. After Bobby Grich lofted a sacrifice fly to rightfielder Dwight Evans to send Blair to third, Powell delivered his first hit, a broken-bat blooper to center, to score Blair...