Word: mph
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...same hitters that had torched a quartet of Crimson hurlers for 18 hits an hour earlier could not handle a steady dose of Hendricks’ 85-87-mph fastballs just below their knees...
During the Spring of 1999, Houston fell in love with a 6’5 fireballer named Josh Beckett. Beckett, the Florida Marlins’ opening day starter this year, threw 96 mph consistently his final two seasons. His senior year, he went 10-1 with a 0.46 ERA and more than two strikeouts per inning. He was the nation’s back-to-back high school player of the year. He was also Hendricks’ teammate...
...vaccinate contacts after an exposure might be more effective in controlling the spread of smallpox than a program aimed at vaccinating millions of Americans prior to an event. Dr. Foege, who was director of the CDC during the time that smallpox was finally eradicated, and J. Michael Lane, MD, MPH, former director of the smallpox eradication program, have stated that aggressive identification and vaccination of contacts was the strategy that ultimately eradicated smallpox as a naturally occurring illness, while mass vaccination had failed to produce such a result...
...slid awkwardly into third base on an attempted steal. Hordon didn’t even get the base—the attempt happened during a timeout—and he didn’t pitch again until NCAAs. There, a still-recovering Hordon relied heavily on a 56-mph eephus pitch that briefly stymied Rice before the Owls broke through against the big righty...
...they did. The Crimson was up against two tough opponents—a determined Yale team that had won three games in a row and an angry Mother Nature that arrived at the Stadium with swirling, 35-mph winds, bringing the wind chill well below the innocuous game-time temperature of 43 degrees...