Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...m.p.h. (3 m.p.h. faster than Bob Feller's and 7 m.p.h. faster than Sandy Koufax's), Ryan's influence on a game isn't surprising. Nor is his record. He has struck out more batters (383) in a single season than anyone in baseball history, pitched as many no-hitters (3) as Feller, and has thrown four one-hitters, six two-hitters and 14 three-hitters. This year, after two seasons as a 20-game winner, Ryan is setting a 30-win pace with eight victories and only two defeats while flourishing...
...presence on stage is as disturbing to us as it is to his family, though our distance keeps our horror, unlike theirs, from turning into hatred. Beckhard is not always at home with Rabe's more poetic passages; but his performance is riveting when he rises to a fever pitch of outrage, denouncing the cruelty he sees and hating himself for listening to voices not his own, or when he subsides into a hurt, despairing sarcasm that admits the futility of his denunciations...
...first game. Harvard came up against one of the hottest pitchers in the east this season in Beattie. Beattie, who beat Penn earlier in the season, dueled Holt pitch for pitch until the fifth inning, when his teammates staked him to a two run lead that he held the rest...
...second came on a 2-2 delivery to Northeastern's Don Modugno in the bottom of the sixth. With one out and a runner on first. Modugno emashed Driscoll's pitch over the left field lence to stake the Huskies to an insurmountable 3-0 lead...
...inning later Marni made a second error, Joe Sciolla reached first and things looked rosy for the Crimson nine when Leon Goetz was hit by a pitch while trying to bunt, placing runners of, first and second with nobody out. But once again Walker responded to the pressure, and quelled Harvard's hopes by first inducing a force-out at third then striking out Barry Cronin on a called third strike, and finally getting Sandy Milley on a grounder...