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Birtwell, who entered the game in relief to start the ninth, had retired the first two batters of the inning on a pop up and a strikeout before allowing the game-winning homer...
...Harvard's success under Walsh has been his pitchers' impressive control. All of Harvard's top pitchers have had terrific strikeout-walk ratios during the Walsh era, and this year is no different...
...does the little things that keep the team going," Thoke said. "She gives you a smile in the huddle, or does silly dugout dances to cheer you up. It's as important as any hit or strikeout...
...STRIKEOUT Doctors had hoped that hormone-replacement therapy--because it increases the elasticity of blood vessels--would help prevent strokes. Not so. The first clinical trial to look at strokes and HRT shows no increase or decrease--at least in postmenopausal women with heart disease. This is the second recent setback for hormone treatments. Three years ago, doctors learned that HRT may not protect against heart disease either...
...like any bench jockey spitting out nicknames and wisecracks. He cultivated this part of his personality as a high school and college player as much as in the Yale frat house. It can even inspire a kind of poetry. Explaining the "magical moment" of Nolan Ryan's 5,000th strikeout--an event Bush cut a vacation short to attend--the Governor elegizes the flashbulbs: "It looked like there were fireflies everywhere...