Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brian Foley grounder, shortstop Tony DiCesare went for the force at second, but B.J. Flynn beat DiCesare's throw. The runners advanced on a wild pitch, then scored an out later on a single to left...
...despite touching up pitch Gerri Rubin for 13 hits, Maine couldn't manage to defeat the Crimson. Rubin picked up her sixth victory of the season after a bit of a workout--she threw 98 pitches over the course of the ballgame...
Musselman rarely got behind on the count. "I got my first pitch in for a strike about 80 percent of the time," he said. "That was the whole key to the game. I just got right on top of them right away...
...Before the Palm Sunday vote, political observers had given the Christian Democrats little chance for a strong showing, certainly not for a majority in the Assembly. That judgment was based on a feeling that Duarte's government somehow had run out of steam. Popular expectations were at a fever pitch last October, when the President held a historic first meeting with leaders of the left-wing Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.) and its political arm, the Democratic Revolutionary Front (F.D.R.), to discuss ways of ending the war. A second meeting in November led nowhere. The chief reason: Duarte...
...born with his twin, Ben. The agreement: Willie will have "what the world calls brains"; Ben will "get out of this cave first." He will play Abel to Willie's Cain, and also be a deadly left-handed hitter, deadly that when, years later, he slams a teammate's pitch into a dark summer night on a date, he hits Clare Bishop in the forehead and she goes into a coma...