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Taking the mound for the Crimson, and hopefully not planning to walk the first six batters she faces, is sophomore Nancy Boutilier, a member of an entirely right-handed pitching staff. Former women's lacrosse goalie, Boutilier, a first-year softballer, intends to finesse the Engineer batswomen with her change...
But where? And the problem with platooning (playing the left-handed hitting Remy against right-handed pitchers and the right-handed Stapleton against south-paws), besides the fact that both--especially Remy--will not like it, is that Stapleton hit better (.330) against righties than he did against lefties.
NEW YORK YANKEES: The Yankees acquired a right-handed power hitter in Bob Watson, a new catcher in Rick Cerone and a new centerfielder in Ruppert Jones, but this team is getting old. And the pitching staff may be in trouble if Ed Figueroa or Luis Tiant don't give...
Winger Sara Fischer played a scrappy game, but she failed to sneak the puck past the Northeastern netminder. Coach Rita Harder said after the game she thinks moving Fischer--a right-handed player--from left to right wing "made her feel a little more at home."
But Weaver does not win games fighting with umpires. He wins with his own distinctive style of managing. He does not believe inflexibly in the sacrifice bunt, the hit-and-run or, for that matter, the supposedly hallowed rule that left-handed hitters hit better against right-handed pitchers, and...