Word: pitcher
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Lopez chopped a grounder back to pitcher David Aardsma, who threw home to force out Hendricks. Senior second baseman Faiz Shakir popped up to end the threat...
...Wolf of the Financial Times moderated the annual update on the world economy, with a cast of analysts from China, Japan, the U.S., Britain and Germany. For those convinced that a strong recovery in the U.S. is already under way, Stephen Roach, chief economist of Morgan Stanley, had a pitcher of cold water ready, pointing out that no economy had ever been able to maintain a buoyant recovery from a recession while running such an enormous deficit on the current account, and while household and corporate balance sheets are overloaded with historically-high levels of debt. The most frightening thing...
...parent clubs, meanwhile, only trade prospects for players. Sometimes the prospects turn out to be good players on these “minor league” teams. Tony Armas Jr. is a quality pitcher for Montreal. But once Armas’ contract is up, you know he will jump at the chance of actually playing for a “real” major league team...
...within--and George W. Bush knows how to buck up a country. Last week, after getting intelligence that set off a second high alert, Bush ignored the advice of his Secret Service and traveled to Yankee Stadium for the first home game of the World Series. Alone on the pitcher's mound, not an agent in sight, with thousands rooting for him, he took his own sweet time and delivered a clean strike...
Apparently, though, this didn’t phase the D-Backs entering the series. As Arizona pitcher Curt Schilling said of the Yankees’ mystique and aura, “those are the names of dancers at a night club, [not something we should be concerned about].” The D-Backs went on to decisively win the first two games of the series behind the arms of Schilling and Randy Johnson...