Word: strikeout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other Princeton pitchers -- Graham Marcott and Steve Cushman have been brilliant at times and awful at times. Cushman threw an eight-strikeout shutout against Maine but was clobbered in his next outing...
...pitches in his repertoire, but by his effectiveness, particularly in "clutch" situations. Sandy has no peer in this department today; it is unlikely that there has ever been anyone to match him on that score. Nor is it fair to state that Koufax gets his "kicks out of setting strikeout records," any more than it would be fair to say Joe Louis got his kicks out of knocking opponents down. Marichal is a fine pitcher, but Koufax is a living legend...
...best one, the fastball. For one thing, it is too much like work. ("Has major-league fastball," read a plaintive note in the first scouting report the Giants received on Juan's pitching, "but wants to throw curves all the time.") For another, the fastball is essentially a strikeout pitch. Sandy Koufax may get his kicks out of setting strikeout records, but Marichal would rather save his arm. "It takes at least three pitches to strike a man out," he says matter-of-factly. "It only takes one for a ground ball." In his first two games this year...
...hits off Cushmore, but Princeton's output was particularly embarrassing in view of their 13-8 pasting of Brown the day before. The two hits--a line shot into right by Cushmore and a bunt by Biondi--came consecutively in the third, but McCandlish retired the side on a strikeout and a popup...
...sacri fice, steal third, and come home on a fly ball.") But just the night before, the Dodgers had won their twelfth straight game, as Sandy Koufax shut out Cincinnati on two hits, 5-0, running his own season's record to 25-8 and recording his 369th strikeout-a major league record. Now it was Don Drysdale's turn, and Don quickly made it 13 in a row, throwing only 89 pitches, blanking the Milwaukee Braves on three hits, 4-0 for his 23rd victory of the year...