Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mackey jumped on Dougherty's first pitch and tripled over the rightfielder's head to drive in one run, and Tim Bilodeau followed with a single up the middle to drive in Mackey for the winning...
Walsh has been the team's leading reliever as a sophomore, and yesterday's victory brought his record to 5-1. Walsh has a fastball that tails into righthanded hitters, but his best pitch is a knuckle curve, and yesterday he was throwing it on two out of three pitches...
Mackey, another sophomore, has been Harvard's first pinch hitter all season, but yesterday's triple was his first extra base hit of the season. "When you're a pinch hitter you don't have time to study the pitcher, so I was swinging at the first good pitch Dougherty gave me. It was a fastball, and I guess there was a lot of room behind the rightfielder," Mackey said...
Thomas feels that the most important thing for him as a hitter is "waiting" on the ball and then hitting it to right field if the pitch is on the outside corner. Thomas is a natural "pull" hitter, which means that when he hits the ball his bat is well out in front of his body. This type of swing gives a hitter more power because the center of his weight is transferred to his front foot...
Hitting an outside pitch properly requires what Thomas calls an "inside out" swing, in which the hitter's wrists are in front of the barrel of the bat when contact with the ball is made. The ball is "slapped" to the opposite field, and only a hitter with very strong wrists can do this with power...