Word: pitching
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Lumpy's claim to fame is his ability to get hit by the pitcher every time he is up to bat, and he's determinded to block every pitch that comes his way if that's what it takes to get to the majors...
Furst's perfect-pitch re-creation begins with a fatally flawed protagonist: Andre Szara, 40, Pravda reporter in Europe and occasional Soviet spy, whose life goals have been reduced to a desire to outlast Stalin's purges. As the novel opens in 1937, Szara, a Russified Polish Jew, is caught in the midst of a blood feud in the Soviet secret services between his NKVD friends, mostly Jewish intellectuals, and Stalin's Georgian thugs. The fear that dominates Szara's nomadic life is palpable: a typically chilling passage is about his return to Russia aboard a Soviet freighter with...
Dawson advanced to third on a grounder by Heidi Meinz, and scored on a wild pitch, decreasing the deficit to five. The Crimson could not come-back, however, losing...
...Richard Neal, recently returned from the Persian Gulf, didn't exactly throw a strike--but he did please the fans when he tossed the first pitch of the 80th season at Fenway Park...
After Neal's pitch, the game slid downhill for the Red Sox as the Indians built an early 6-0 lead...