Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were doing things Coach mentions all the time, making adjustments," Larocque said. "[Mattern] had been starting everybody off with fastballs, so I was gearing up for one on the first pitch...
Carey scored twice more, off a wild pitch in the fifth and off Huling's RBI single in the seventh, for the 6-0 final...
...With the bases loaded and one out, all I wanted to do was put the ball in the outfield," Larocque said. "[Quaker reliever John Dolan] left a pitch up and I gave it a good shot. At least it was good enough to get all of the runs...
...They were the first to discover that a long, narrow wing shape was the ideal architecture of flight. They figured out how to move the vehicle freely, not just across land, but up and down on a cushion of air. They built a forward elevator to control the pitch of their craft as it nosed up and down. They fashioned a pair of twin rudders in back to control its tendency to yaw from side to side. They devised a pulley system that warped the shape of the wings in midflight to turn the plane and to stop it from...
...years, astronomers had noted that light from the nebulae was redder than it should be. The most likely cause of this so-called red shifting was motion away from the observer. (The same sort of thing happens with sound: a police car's siren seems to drop in pitch abruptly as the car races past a listener...