Word: inning
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Remember how in sandlot baseball games sometimes nobody on your team could hit the ball, and you'd be behind by, say, 16 runs in the final inning? And yet, if you were the last kid to strike out, you were considered the one who lost the game? Well, that's how Jack Kemp felt after last Wednesday night's debate against Vice President Al Gore...
...coming through with a number of big hits. Catcher Javy Lopez also stepped up throughout the series, leading the Braves in RBIs. Even the pitchers got into the act. Tom Glavine, one of the game's best hitting pitchers, delivered a crushing a three-run triple in the first inning of last night's game...
...handling disputes with the Baltimore Orioles. After his sloppy handling of the Roberto Alomar spitting incident, he needed to quickly and decisively rule on the latest controversy, a Baltimore protest of a catch by a 12-year old fan that turned a probable out into a game-tying eighth-inning home run in a game the Yankees later won. Budig and baseball's executive council overruled a five-page written request from Orioles owner Peter Angelos that the play be ruled an out and the game be replayed from the eighth inning with the Orioles ahead 4-3. Back...
...Life, Hall establishes connections to these older books--the volume's first poem, "The Night of the Day," continues the story of his 1988 book The One Day, while the second, "The Thirteenth Inning," takes up the Schwitters premise. But the bulk of the book, and the bulk of what Hall read Tuesday, is the title poem, a long agglomeration of short, free-form, highly autobiographical segments. This is "confessional poetry" carried to an extreme--Hall writes exactly what has happened to him, from age 4 to last year, including precise names, dates and locations. The language is not much...
Richardson had her opportunity in the third inning of the gold-medal game between the U.S. and China. With a runner on first in a scoreless game, she lifted a fly ball deep down the right-field line. As it sailed toward the foul pole, the exuberant 5-ft. 5-in. shortstop crouched low on the base path (so the home-plate umpire could see better, she later explained), then leaped in the air as the ball was ruled fair. The Chinese team disputed the call for 10 minutes, to no avail, and the homer provided the winning...