Word: pitcher
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...about the numbers, and Bonds has the kind of inflated stats that usually cause Eliot Spitzer to convene a grand jury. Last season the Giants left fielder hit a record 73 home runs; this year, he led Major Leagues in batting average. Most amazingly were the number of times pitchers declined to throw to him at all; he walked nearly 200 times, including 68 intentional walks, a complete admission of defeat where the pitcher drops even the pretense of throwing something Bonds might be able to hit. Those walk numbers are the highest in the history of the game...
...untimely death of Cards’ pitcher Darryl Kile will forever be honored by his teammate’s surge into the post-season...
There are so many other teams to like. Minnesota is the best story in baseball; their own owner wanted them to lose last year and they barely dodged contraction. St. Louis is playing out of its mind in memory of fallen pitcher Darryl Kile. Oakland won 100 games after losing Giambi and not adding much payroll. Bonds has playoff ghosts to shake, and even the people who like the Braves the least realize they should have won more than one puny world championship over the last decade. And the Angels are the saviors of baseball...
...former sportswriter for the Washington Post, Leavy represents Koufax's career vividly, from the time he was first scouted by the Dodgers ("The hair on my arms rose," Al Campanis reported) through those five years in the 1960s when he may have been the greatest pitcher ever--so dominating, said slugger Willie Stargell, that hitting against him was like "trying to drink coffee with a fork." In his last season Koufax won 27 games yet chose to retire at the age of 30, his left arm so ravaged by then that he was living on cortisone...
...owners' representatives had been hunkered down for days, didn't impress players either. "I'm very grateful and appreciative that the commissioner of baseball feels that 48 hours before another work stoppage, it's important enough for him to leave Milwaukee and go to New York," New York Mets pitcher Al Leiter said. Of course, Selig the commissioner has never been popular with players; his claim that 25 of 30 teams are operating at a financial loss, a favorite argument against increasing salaries, leaves most of them underwhelmed...