Word: strike-out
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After five innings, Metzler had nine strike-out, and with a four-run lead, he looked invincible. But the Harvard batters nicked him for two runs in the sixth, and in the seventh they nearly stole the game away...
...Gibson broke the World Series strike-out record by whiffing 17 batters as he carried the St. Louis Cardinals past Denny McLain and the Detroit Tigers 4-0 in the first game of the 1968 series...
...certainly deadly in Saturday's match with the Army, although he almost was mastered at his own game. For eight innings Del Rossi and Cadet sophomore Barry DeBolt hurled competing shut outs. For awhile it appeared that the most interesting contest was going to be the strike-out duel, which DeBolt eventually...
...again, off again, on again. Francis Powers has been reinstated in the baseball hall of fame and the good graces of the CIA. Twenty months ago, Powers was billed as the strike-out king; landing alive and intact among gentle Russian captors, he had failed to use the suicide needle so generously provided...
...Fastballing Dodger Pitcher Sandy Koufax, 25, who once struck out 18 batters in a single game, proved it was no fluke. Koufax fanned seven Phillies, raised his season strike-out total to 269, breaking Christy Mathewson's 58-year-old National League record. Koufax has now disposed of 952 batters in 948 innings-best strikeout record in history. > After one brief season in retirement, former Yankee Manager Casey Stengel, 71, agreed to get back in uniform for one more year and exercise his gravel-voiced strategy from one more big-league dugout. Beginning next spring, Stengel will manage...