Word: mounds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perhaps no graduating senior will be more sorely missed than left-handed starter Frank Hogan. Hogan, the Ivy League Pitcher of the Year, posted eight wins, including victories over Miami and UCLA, and was a mound workhorse all season. His biting breaking ball left hitters across the nation clueless...
Also, Mets right-hander Paul Wilson, who heard a pop in his pitching shoulder Sunday, was cleared to return to the mound by team physician Dr. David Altchek after an MRI showed no structural damage...
...Brady Anderson in center, Alex Rodriguez at short, Frank Thomas at first, Mike Piazza behind the plate, Jay Buhner in right, Ken Caminiti at third, Craig Biggio at second, Barry Bonds in left and Roger Clemens on the mound. Despite the presence of such stars, we lost our first six games--not counting a tie called for darkness. Actually, it was in an effort to lighten things up that the coaches decided to give our Little Leaguers the names of big leaguers with the corresponding positions, if not quite the talents...
...less strenuous atmosphere," general manager Bob Watson explained. Irabu, whom the Yankees signed to a $12.8 million contract, gave up six runs and four hits in only two innings Saturday in a 9-7 loss to Seattle. He threw just 41 pitches and was booed as he left the mound. By attracting ten and fifteen thousand more fans than average, Irabu has shown George Steinbrenner that he may be worth every penny. But first he's got to find either his confidence or his reputed 100-mile-an-hour fastball...
...Irabu was perfect the first two innings, striking out four. He ran into trouble in the third, giving up a run, and again in the fifth, when he gave up another run and walked two batters to load the bases. That necessitated a conference on the mound that had shortstop Derek Jeter laughing. "Everybody was trying to tell him something," Jeter said. Irabu somehow got the message--and the next batter to ground out. He breezed through the sixth and had two outs with nobody on in the seventh when Torre brought in a reliever so that Irabu could walk...