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...good stuff and do not have to worry about pacing themselves for nine innings. All told, five pitchers worked for the American League, seven for the National League. In 30 innings, they gave up only 17 hits, walked only two batters, and fanned a record 30, including among their strikeout victims some of the most fearsome sluggers in baseball. Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays each came up to bat as pinch hitters and each looked at a called third strike. Pittsburgh's Roberto Clemente, eight-year batting average, .328, wrote his name into the All-Star record book...
Sophomore pitching phenom Ray Peters hurled another solid game, whiffing 13 for a season-high in the strikeout department. But the real surprise was that he got his batting support from the bottom of the order...
...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...