Word: pitcherful
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...wants to convince me that Sudoku is the caviar of puzzles, an ideal mind expander, opening a world of numerical possibilities with a minimum of means. All right. I acknowledge the game's elegance. And, heaven knows, I'm a number freak. Attach a few of them to a pitcher's or batter's record, and I'm off in Rotisserie or SABRmetrics dreamland. Ahh, slugging percentage! Oooh, WHIP (walks plus hits divided by innings pitched)! Those numbers have meaning, personality, clout. They lend biographical nuance and historical comparison to the game of baseball...
...Times puzzles, puzzlemakers and puzzle solvers. Creadon is a master of the suave segue-as when Okrent observes that "Using Reagle on Tuesday is like using Barry Bonds in Little League," and the film cuts to a clip of Bonds getting struck out by Mussina, leading to the star pitcher's segment...
...said. “We’ve been waiting to go back-to-back for four years now.” The year wasn’t perfect, of course. Brunnig’s ERA finally settled at 5.88, for one. But for a pitcher whose potential originated in part due to a curiosity—whose career has been more frustratingly inconsistent than anything—he put it together in his senior year like never before. “I’m real proud of him,” Castellanos said. “He?...
...crown to crosstown Boston College, in a thorough 10-2 title-game loss at Fenway Park. In Game 1 against Dartmouth, Haviland was his normal, sparkling self, twirling ten innings of six-hit ball in a 2-1 extra-inning win, a performance that may well have secured Ivy Pitcher of the Year honors for the sophomore. He boasted a microscopic 0.73 ERA in five regular-season Ivy decisions. But losses in games two and three forced a decisive finale in Hanover. After squandering several leads, the Crimson ran off the final 14 runs in a 23-9 triumph behind...
...play commenced midway through the spring and included a tense doubleheader against Ivy League champion Princeton. The Harvard pitching staff allowed only two runs and the Crimson earned a split against the Tigers. In the first game, sophomore Shelly Madick pitched a complete-game shutout, out-pitching Ivy League Pitcher of the Year Erin Snyder. “That was an unbelievable game,” co-captin Michele McAteer said. “Princeton was a really strong team and we were really determined to beat them. We came out strong and it was a flawless game; we really...