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...popular, and easy, that enrollment is limited-and athletes and foreign students seem to be preferred. Their most difficult task is putting up with Father Brennan's idiosyncrasy of flipping matchbooks at them during class. Catching them is not easy; he has developed a curve and a slider...
...fast stuff, one after another of the Cards went down-three, then six, nine, twelve. As the tension mounted, 24 Cardinals came to bat, and not one got a hit. At last, with two out in the eighth, St. Louis' Julian Javier looped a hanging slider into leftfield for a double. Lonborg threw his hands to his face. "It was utter agony," he said later. "I really thought I had it." What he had was plenty good enough. Retiring the next four batters, he gave Boston a 5-0 shutout to even everything up, and copped the fourth...
Unfortunately Julian Javier, batting seventh in the line-up witha 281 average, has no appreciation of history. When Lonborg hung a slider in front of him, he promptly slashed it into the left field corner for a double. Unrattled, Lonborg threw down pinch-hitter Bob Tolan to retire the side...
...first inning, fortune threw the home side a slider. The Twins methodically walked and singled for a quick run. Bases were loaded with one out, and one feared for the fragile Santiago. Watching the pitcher carefully, however, one was reassured, not by the pitches he threw--a collection of junk balls without craft--but by his manner...
...nickel curve, and simplistic notions about strategy: if the bases were loaded and the count was 3 and 2, he threw the next pitch low and away. At least nobody ever hit him in a spot like that. Lemon taught him how to throw a sidearm fastball, a slider and a change of pace, and he also taught McGlothlin something about major-league hitters: "They're human, like everybody else...