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...Santos got ahead in the count starting in the fifth," Binkowski said. "And he started throwing his slider for strikes. He was throwing it in the fourth, but it didn't have much bite and I think he was nervous, it being Fenway...
Though Jamieson made it a moot point by striking out shortstop Steve Dankof on a slider down and away to end the inning, it was a move symbolic of what Harvard did right all weekend--sweating the details...
...Jamieson crossed up a Bulldog order accustomed to the hard-throwing arms of Garett Vail and Ben Crockett by using a mix of offspeed stuff, including a very workable slider, to allow just three earned runs on nine hits. Jamieson struck out nine and walked...
...Though Jamieson made it a moot point by striking out shortstop Steve Dankof on a slider down and away to end the inning, it was a move symbolic of what Harvard did right all weekend--sweating the details...
...head of the reporter who'd gone peeking into his locker. What kind of a modern athlete would fail to do that? As for "andro," whatever else it does, it can't help a player's timing, his hand-eye coordination, his ability to discern a slider from a splitter. But even if andro improved his power by an unlikely, oh, 5%, then instead of 70 home runs, McGwire this year would have hit... maybe 67. Take 5% off a 450-ft. missile, and you've got a 427.5-ft. missile--long enough to clear any fence save center field...