Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...league game, Boston Rookie Carl Yastrzemski sliced an outside fast ball into leftfield for a single. Next game against the Los Angeles Angels, he drove in two runs, hit a single and a booming 374-ft. triple. Said battered Angel Pitcher Jerry Casale: "He hit the single off a pitch right in on his fists. The triple came off a high fast ball. We gotta find out how to work this...
Last season, at Minneapolis in the American Association, he batted .339, was voted the league's top rookie. Grouses a rival American Association manager: "We tried to pitch him in every way possible: up and down, in and out. We jammed him, and we threw him slow breaking stuff. He still killed...
...Crimson broke the tie in the sixth as Dave Morse singled, went to second on a wild pitch, and came home on Bernstein's looping single to right...
...Boone, but then walked both Drummey and Rodgers Morse singled to load the bases and the stage was set for Martin. The varsity captain smacked a long drive down the left field line--but it was foul by a foot. When Martin grounded out on the next pitch the game was over...
...Francisco, Giant Pitcher Mike McCormick, who boasted the best earned-run average in the National League last season, threw one pitch to the Pittsburgh Pirates' Bill Virdon, watched it sail over the fence for a home run. McCormick headed for the showers one out later, the losing pitcher...