Word: hurler
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...from Tampa, ruin this fairy-dusted vacation that I am enjoying with the wife and kids.? I confess to one further meanspirited reflection ?Aw, hell,? I said to Dave. ?Let me know when Contreras proves he?s an MLB pitcher, and not just another 44-year-old Cuban tournament hurler.? But then I was back to being my sunny, Disney-spirited self. ?Besides,? I concluded, ?who won the Super Bowl...
...citizens, old enough to have bumped into a retired Babe Ruth on the street wearing his (Ruth's, that is) signature camel's-hair coat and cap. But in the autobiographical chapter "Early Innings," Angell allows us to glimpse the moment when he, a control-challenged junior-high screwball hurler, gave up his big-league dreams and "took up smoking and irony in self-defense." He must have outgrown the irony too--otherwise how could he describe with such tender eloquence a forgettable player, onetime New York Mets shortstop Tony Fernandez, taking batting practice, "laying each bunt down like...
...leadoff runner on again in the fourth off Wheeler when Josh Discipio singled. The Harvard hurler got Flynn and Morgan to fly out and Lentz gunned down Discipio trying to steal second base...
...former all-Texas high school hurler once said he thought pitching was easier than hitting. Now he leads the team in ERA (2.43) and opponents’ batting average (.273), along with all of the triple crown categories...
Mike Morgalis, a sophomore transfer from Notre Dame, will look to anchor the 2003 staff. Before the season began, Morgalis was projected to be the Crimson’s most consistent and talented hurler...