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After that, the game was a duel between the pitchers to see who could keep the other team from circling the bases. After allowing a walk in the bottom of the fifth inning, Madick forced a ground out and a fly out before finishing the frame with a strikeout. She only allowed one hit in the sixth and struck out two to keep the score tied...
...also adding some new faces to the staff. The team has high hopes for freshmen Suzi Cominski and Bailey Vertovez, who will pitch out of the bullpen. Vertovez was named twice to both the all-Long Island and all-State teams, and holds the West Islip all-time strikeout record with 973 career strikeouts. “Bailey is better up, she has a good rise-ball, a good curveball and throws the ball in very well too,” Allard says. The squad will need to utilize different pitchers’ specialties in order to make its unconventional...
...year for you to learn about Dinosaurs, their relatives, and the Fountains of Central Italy.Last year, though, the Harvard name got so big that even baseball’s brightest stars began expressing opinions about our humble institution.Shortly after future Hall of Famer Greg Maddux recorded his 3,000th strikeout, current Cooperstown tenant Don Sutton couldn’t help but make a Cambridge comparison. In describing Maddux’s intelligence, Sutton said the hurler was very sharp, but “wiser than he is smart. I don’t know if he could be the president...
...physiological functions. Think hard enough about jumping out of an airplane, and your heart will start to race and your palms to sweat. Other thought-induced changes may be more subtle, and for athletes who rely on fine motor skills, those imperceptible adjustments can mean the difference between a strikeout and a home...
...loud. "There are times," White says, "when a whole team reaches down for something that's even better than winning. I know it sounds impossible." On the subject of impossibilities, consider three hits, 18 men retired in a row and a 1-0 victory that ended on a strikeout. "When I struck Rance Mulliniks out," Leonard says, "it was like I finally was home. Everyone ran out on the field except Mick, and he was the one I was waiting for." In the dugout, the pitcher pressed the ball into his trainer's hand...