Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks ago, for instance, in a game with the San Diego Padres, Banks swung at an inside pitch and, as he likes to put it, "Swoosh! Swoooosh! Suh-woooosh!" It was a home run into the leftfield bleachers. With that hit, Banks became the 17th player in baseball history to drive in 1,500 or more runs. Last week Ernie belted the 480th homer of his career (he is tenth on the list of alltime home-run hitters, just ahead of Stan Musial) and a double against the Los Angeles Dodgers to take over the league lead in RBIs...
...runs were made in the third, but in the fourth O'Malley got his base on balls, then scored on Corbett's three base hit to centre field. Corbett then scored on a wild pitch. Highland's reached first on an error by short, got second on Whitemore's safe bunt, went to third on Cook's sacrifice and scored on Scannell's hit which also brought Whittemore in from second...
Park was referring to the fact that Kalinoski, originally stationed in the bullpen, came on in mid-season to pitch 26 innings in three starting appearances, winning every game...
...Kalinoski's pitching strength is his speed and his variety of pitches. "He has a good an assortment of pitches as any college pitcher we've seen in a long time." Park said. Relying on a lively fastball, Kalinoski confuses the batter with a slider, curve, change-up, and a drop ball that he saves as a strikeout pitch...
This season Kalinoski was healthy and the statistics indicate the change. He was the only undefeated pitcher in the EIBL. "The big difference this year was that I could pitch on two legs instead of one," Kalinoski explained...