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...good news. In the last at-bat of Mann’s career—runners waited on second and third in the bottom of the ninth with a two-out, 14-6 deficit to overcome—the captain struck out to end the game. The final pitch: a called strike on a 3-2 fastball that looked inside. Gracefully, Mann bowed out and shook hands with the opposing team...
Only the most elite citizens of North Korea are allowed by the government to use cell phones. But that hasn't stopped Samsung, the South Korean consumer-electronics giant, from looking north for a celebrity to pitch its latest handsets. The company announced last week that it has hired dancer Cho Myung Ae as a model to help sell its Anycall mobile phones, which the Samsung ads claim can be used anywhere in the world--with the possible exception of North Korea, where citizens need government permission to even talk to foreigners. "It's symbolic," says Lee Jeong...
...left five runners on up until that point, so I was definitely looking to keep the inning alive and get a pitch to drive in the gap,” Mann said. “But he hung a curveball to me, right in the wheelhouse, left it up, and I got under it just enough...
...lead off the fifth and that was when I got fired up,” Herrmann said of plunking catcher Matt Goodson with the first pitch. “I got mad at myself, and that kind of helped...
After struggling to find his rhythm early in the first game, Herrmann rediscovered a sweeping breaking ball which kept the Big Red off-balance in the later innings, fanning five in the fifth through ninth frames. Haviland, meanwhile, worked quickly, notably throwing a three-pitch seventh after allowing his second single in the sixth...