Word: sluggers
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...American slugger named Karl ("Tuffy") Rhodes may just save the day. The journeyman left-handed hitter with cornrows in his hair and humility in his voice has been lighting up the scoreboard in recent weeks with prodigious home runs. Through Saturday, with three weeks left in the regular season, Rhodes was just three home runs shy of tying the single-season record of 55 set by the legendary Sadaharu Oh in 1964. Japan isn't sure it wants an American to break the mark, but Rhodes seems pumped. "If I get four more in the next 10 games...
...have a history, the San Francisco slugger and me. Years before he began his assault on Mark McGwire?s homerun record, Bonds broke my heart. Back in the early ?90s, he belied his bravado, choked stupendously during key playoff games, and left my beloved Pirates dangling just short of the World Series. Two years in a row I sat watching the hated Atlanta Braves play for the championship, gnashing my teeth and cursing Barry Bonds...
...then I saw something I?d never seen before: A smile play across the slugger?s face as he stood lost in the moment, watching the ball linger over the outfield lights. Something very small inside me loosened, unraveled, and I found myself smiling with him. It?s not love - but it may be acceptance. It?s awfully hard, after all, to fight someone who?s finally found peace...
...Sitting in right field at PacBell Park at the moment Barry Bonds comes up to bat. This is a great summer to cheer on the Giants slugger - just keep your eyes open and your glove at the ready...
...cocked high?is ready for the pitch. This routine is repeated before every pitch. "Some people may think it's strange," says Ichiro, "but if something works, there's no need to change it." It works. Thanks in no small part to Ichiro and despite not having a top slugger in their lineup, the Mariners through June 1 had scored 318 runs, first in the league...