Word: mounded
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...life. The loss did not dampen Shepard's love for baseball. On his return to the U.S. in 1945, he earned a spot with the then Washington Senators, pitching batting practice and exhibition games--boosting the morale of fellow veteran-amputees. But one August afternoon, he took the mound against the Boston Red Sox, becoming the first man with an artificial leg ever to pitch in a major league game. Shepard struck out his first batter and held his own for more than five innings, giving up only three hits. It would be his only major league appearance...
...They're maybe the greatest corporate citizen this community ever had," says Al Hrabosky, a local celebrity whose biography is a testament to the omnipresence of A-B in St. Louis lives. Known as the "Mad Hungarian" for his antics on the mound, Hrabosky was a star relief pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals back when the Busch family owned the storied ball club. (The two-year-old downtown ballpark is still known as Busch Stadium, though Busch sold the club in 1995.) "A-B brought me to this city, where I married a St. Louis girl, settled down...
...third homer of her rookie season. Bock led off the following inning with a blast to center field, her sixth round-tripper this year.Harvard led 2-0 into the bottom of the third, when Princeton caught up with a two-out, two-run homer. Sophomore Dana Roberts took the mound for the first five innings. Facing 20 batters, she struck out three and allowed three runs off five hits. Sophomore reliever Margaux Black gave up two hits against the two batters she faced in the sixth. Madick came in for the final three outs, striking out two.Starting off the season...
...mound Princeton’s ace is senior Kristen Schaus (4.21ERA) who has pitched 148 innings this season with 173 strikeouts. Against Harvard though, back on March 30, the hurler went just 3 1/3 innings giving up five hits and two runs. The Tigers use two other pitchers, Michelle Tolfa (3. 64) and Lettire (3.25). As a staff the Princeton pitchers have...
...Freshman Zach Hofeld took the mound in relief and got Berardo out of the fifth inning jam. In the sixth, he gave up a solo homer to slugger Frank Pesanello, but the freshman went otherwise unscathed...