Word: shortstops
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...Maybe the Yankee ghosts finally got through security. Rivera mowed the D-Backs down in the top of the 10th. Then Kim, pitching in his third inning, got two easy outs to start the bottom half. Up stepped shortstop Derek Jeter. The Kalamazoo Clipper, who was hitting all of .067 for the series, fell behind 0-2. He got the count up to 3-2, fouled a couple of pitches off and then took a Kim delivery to the short porch in right field. He rounded the bases at 12:04 a.m. with the second and decisive homer. Double shots...
...Stan Musial, Dave Winfield & Carl Yastrzemski... Pete Rose owns the 11th- and 15-longest playing streaks in major league history (745; 678). The sum of those streaks still falls 1,209 games short of Ripken's mark... Ripken holds the major league record for home runs hit by a shortstop, with 345... 5,045 players were put on the disabled list from the time Ripken started his consecutive games streak to the time he first went on the DL in April 1999... Ripken was named the Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year...
...almost as if he has a tennis racket in his hands," says John Moses, Seattle's first-base coach. "I'm gonna lob this one?and it's a blooper over the shortstop's head. I'm gonna ace this one?and it's a liner down the right field line. He's toying with guys, and there's nothing they can do about...
...Crimson offense-which hit for a league-worst .258 average last year-was rejuvenated in 2001. Junior third baseman Nick Carter emerged as one of the finest all-around hitters in New England, leading the team in almost every offensive category. Shortstop Mark Mager was again a hit machine, batting .343 on the year. Senior Joe Llanes and sophomore Brian Lentz both scored and knocked in at least 20 runs apiece, while junior outfielder Javy Lopez bounced back from a devastating freshman-year eye injury...
...tape recorder, hoping I had gotten the crumb of a quote to separate my story from a rival's? Did I want to sit in an office, orchestrating a section from my desk, waiting for my minions to bring their "big scoops" about the contract negotiations for a new shortstop...