Word: hitless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tuesday morning he said to my niece, Callie, who is 15 months old: ?"They just may win it in your lifetime." Pedro ? that's Martinez, of course ? had, the evening previous, pitched six hitless innings against the Cleveland Indians to cap (as they say in baseball) a near-miraculous comeback and lift the Red Sox into the American League Championship Series against the reviled Yankees. Scott tickled Callie under the chin and said, ?"They just may win it in your lifetime." They both giggled. Scott was making sport. He thought he was being funny...
...second game, Harvard sophomore ace Chelsea Thoke (7-7) was brilliant, holding the Minutewomen hitless until the bottom of the fifth inning when UMass touched her for two runs...
...second game, Harvard sophomore ace Chelsea Thoke (7-7) was brilliant, holding the Minutewomen hitless until the bottom of the fifth inning when UMass touched her for two runs...
Three of the Crimson's regular weekend arms got some exrcise, and all were predictably sharp. Senior Garett Vail threw 1.1 hitless innings and sophomore John Bitwell faced and retired six batters, striking...
When the Chicago Cubs and Chicago White Sox last played in a game that meant something, Teddy Roosevelt was President and SOS had just been adopted as the universal distress signal. Most sportswriters thought the White Sox, known as the Hitless Wonders, needed to send out just such a call against the Cubs, who had won a record 116 games behind the poetic double-play relay of Tinker to Evers to Chance. But funny things happen in baseball, and the Southsiders won the fourth World Series ever played, four games...