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...think by the time Matt Brunnig finishes his four year career here, he’ll be a well-known New England name,” Walsh says. “He’s got a nasty slider, and he’s a strike thrower. His size is deceiving, and with innings his velocity, 85-plus with either arm, will climb...
...might take more than strikes to repeat last year’s stellar performance. But hopefully, a Brunnig slider or a Morgalis two-seamer will be enough...
Hordon threw in the bullpen with assistant coach Gary Donovan during the top of the second, and whatever they worked on seemed to settle Hordon down. The righty retired eight of the next eleven batters to keep the Crimson in the game until the fifth, complementing his fastball and slider with an unorthodox slow curveball that kept the normally-explosive Rice batters guessing...
...With four pitches?fastball, curve, slider and splitter?that he can throw for strikes, Ishii has quickly gained the respect of some of the game's Elite hitters. "I got one pitch I felt I could hit, and I popped it up," 2000 National League batting champ Todd Helton of the Colorado Rockies told the Denver Post after striking out twice in the Dodgers' 9-2 win April 6. "Other than that, he made me look like a child...
...Crimson was never more blessed to have San Salvador back than in its series finale against Brown. San Salvador ignited Harvard’s rally from a seven-run deficit, then guessed right on a slider from Brown reliever Dan Spring in the bottom of the ninth to win the game...