Word: struck
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...announcer or commentator spouts off on your TV or in your newspaper about a player’s “intangibles,” or calls attention to his grit, scrappiness, or heart as attributes that somehow act to will his team to victory, a blow is struck against the diffusion of quantifiable knowledge that is raising the game to the level of efficiency its fans deserve. It was such a blow that knocked Paul DePodesta ‘95, one of the protagonists in Michael Lewis’s 2003 book “Moneyball...
...Even accounting for the blarney of salesmen who will always make their product precious and scarce so you think you'd better act quickly, this still struck me as a harbinger of... something. New York City's northern suburbs, where I live, are home to women who until recently were waiting for the day they could trade their Ford Expedition for an Excursion, maybe some day an Extravaganza that was even more impossible to park. We may shop at Whole Foods and buy hormone-free milk for the kids, but natural sensitivity and ecological awareness stopped at the garage door...
...Dartmouth hurler Jeff Wilkerson stymied Harvard in the opener, blanking the Crimson over the course of seven innings and forcing a temporary tie atop the standings. Wilkerson allowed eight hits and struck out six in his complete-game shutout, besting opponent Javier Castellanos and Harvard...
Haviland, the Harvard ace, tossed all ten frames in what is supposed to be a seven-inning contest, allowing one earned run over 149 pitches. With a crisp fastball pounding down-and-in and his usual knee-buckling curve, he struck out six while allowing just six hits and three walks...
...thinking a little bit.”Harvard, however, lagged behind from the beginning. The Big Green pushed across four unearned runs on two hits against an uncharacteristically wild Cole, who walked four before being relieved by Jason Brown in the top of the first. The junior submariner then struck out his first batter swinging on the way to 5 2/3 gutsy, bullpen-saving innings.Brown, notably, would give up eight runs, but only three of them earned. “When you get down 8-0, you’re trying to save guys you might need tomorrow...