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Shortly after Boston Red Sox closer Jonathan Papelbon delivered his signature slider to strike out Seth Smith of the Colorado Rockies for the final out of the World Series last night, Harvard’s Red Sox faithful poured out of every crevice of the campus to join in on the festivities happening in the Square. With the Harvard Band leading the way, Sox fans cheered their second World Series title in four years, proudly chanting the names of their icons and providing perhaps the loudest rendition of Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline?...
Fastball, fastball, slider. He threw early strikes, swinging strikes, and then nipped at the corners until then—there—broke the tight inside slider that left six Tigers knock-kneed and confounded. Five of Cole’s strikeout victims walked away after called third strikes...
Other kids experimented with a slider, which usually just meant they were throwing sidearm, or imagined they could throw a splitter if they could...just...fit their fingers around the ball, or proclaimed “Yo, did you see the movement on that knuckleball!” And there were plenty of curveball dilettantes...
...They staked me out to two runs and I’ve got to hold them at zero for two innings.” Ratliff took care of the rest. The BC junior yielded two runs in the first when Harvard senior Lance Salsgiver pounded a hanging slider off the Green Monster in left. After that, Ratliff breezed through the Crimson lineup, which again missed RBI leader Josh Klimkiewicz due to an elbow injury. Ratliff retired four of the next six batters he faced on strikeouts and allowed only two hits and one walk for the rest of the game...
...That sidearm guy [Dietz] is pretty good-- his slider moved about two feet, sophomore Matt Vance said. “Then it started getting dark and we had trouble seeing the ball. He was more tricky than the pitcher we faced in the first game...