Word: innings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...don’t think I really got those Saturday Night Live jokes about Red Sox fans and their rabid hatred for the Yankees until my first seventh inning at Fenway. The team’s playoff ambitions were already dashed, but as the game dragged on and concessionaires pulled the taps on bleacher beer, the faces around me began to harden with purpose. Native Bostonians in every corner of the stadium—from toddlers just learning to mispronounce the Boston “r” to die-hard 40-somethings escaping their wives—pulled together...
...what happened? Hudson was hit hard in both of his starting outings. Ted Lilly was horrendous. Billy Koch gave up three runs in the ninth inning in Game Five’s heartbreaking 5-4 defeat at home...
...five game series against a Minnesota team stacked with lefties. This year, the A’s will make sure their best have two chances to pitch. Hudson’s been phenomenal all year long. And in his one performance against Boston, he threw a nine-inning, two-hit, one-walk shutout...
...most notable exploits as a “participatory journalist,” Plimpton pitched part of an inning of the 1959 All-Star exhibition game, giving up a home run to Frank Thomas, but getting Willie Mays...
Whitton’s 10th-inning game-winning homer against Princeton was the last of many such hits throughout her career. She graduates as the school’s all-time leader in home runs and among the leaders in average and RBI. Her junior season, when she topped the nation in RBI per game and led Harvard to its best win percentage ever, set a new standard for offensive excellence...