Word: mounds
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BASEBALL GOT WHAT IT DIDN'T DEserve. Namely, baseball. A season that began with 48-year-old Pedro Borbon Sr. wheezing and falling off the mound as a replacement pitcher ended with a glorious World Series in which 27-year-old Pedro Borbon Jr. was warming up in the ninth inning for the world champion Atlanta Braves. A season that at first seemed too short because of its 144-game schedule provided fans with too many memories. Forget the owners, forget the union activists, forget the Baseball Network, whatever that was. Remember that the game, if left alone long enough...
THERE WERE NO DEMONSTRATIONS outside, no fans inside when a small, unassuming man took the mound in Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium last Wednesday night. In preparation for the World Series, Greg Maddux was throwing live batting practice to some of his Atlanta Braves teammates, and they each walked away smiling, shaking their heads. They couldn't hit him, either. "Watching him pitch,'' said manager Bobby Cox, as he stood behind the batting cage, "just turns...
Three-time National League Cy Young award winner Greg Maddux will take the mound for Atlanta tonight as the Braves try to close out the World Series. Atlanta edged Cleveland 5-2 Wednesday night to take a 3-1 lead in the best of seven series. To win tonight, Maddux will have to beat Orel Hershiser, the Cleveland ace who, until he lost 3-2 to Maddux in the first game of the Series, had a perfect 7-0 post season record. Key for Cleveland: offensive production from someone else besides centerfielder Kenny Lofton. Despite leading the American league...
Perez, wearing a multicolored beret and matching vest, a black T-shirt and jeans, hugged his Lawyer before leaving jail. He said he wants to pitch this week, and Expos general manager Kevin Malone said Perez could be on the mound as early as Thursday in Montreal against Cincinnati...
With the exception of the Princeton weekend--which were 11-0 and 6-2 blowouts--Cupp breezed through the Ivy League as well, as did Brown. Brown was another solid presence on the mound, going 11-4 with a 2.10 ERA in 106-and-two-thirds innings...