Word: strikeout
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...join the Games. The U.S. pitching staff is as impressive as the Braves'. It includes Lisa Fernandez, a four-time All-American at UCLA; Michele Smith, with a college record of 82 wins, 20 losses and an earned-run average of 0.25; and Michele Granger, the all-time NCAA strikeout leader. Besides anchoring the infield, third baseman Kim Maher and first baseman Sheila Cornell are among the top hitters...
...swing on the indoor batting tee for 15 minutes, and then he went over scouting reports on the Indians. Once the game started, he went hitless and drew a walk, but played his position flawlessly. (A shortstop has some special responsibility on every play that's not a strikeout.) And when the 3-hr. 16-min. 8-5 defeat was over, Ripken didn't just dress and go home. He went back out onto the field for one of his postgame autograph sessions, signing for and kibitzing with 2,000 fans. "Cal Ripken personifies everything that is right with baseball...
...green cathedrals of what Annie Savoy in Bull Durham called "the Church of Baseball." The 1994 major league season may have ended for good late Thursday night in Oakland, California, with the sadly appropriate third strike as A's pinch hitter Ernie Young whiffed on a fast ball from strikeout king Randy Johnson of the Seattle Mariners. With that final, futile swing, the national pastime went down for the count as the more than 750 members of the Major League Players Association began their long- dreaded strike, baseball's eighth work stoppage since 1972. Never before have the games been...
...drug-rehab center. In recent years, Show apparently struggled with drugs and emotional problems, in dramatic contrast to his status a decade ago as the winningest pitcher the Padres had ever known; he led his team to their only National League pennant in 1984, and held the club strikeout record. The public may remember him best as the hurler who gave up Pete Rose's record 4,192nd career hit in 1985. In his typically offbeat way, Show simply sat down on the pitcher's mound while the crowd went wild...
...last recollection I will have from this year of baseball: Mitch Williams, another lefty Phillie reliever, punching the air in ecstasy after the same strikeout, in the same stadium, after another Game Six. And it's an ex-Royal, Bill Pecota, that goes down swinging...