In the bottom of the eighteenth inning, Clemens came to bat again, indicating that he would be pitching in the nineteenth inning, if it came to that.

The discouraging theme of 2007 would continue as solid pitching was not backed up with offense.

Only Winfield and fellow outfielder George Hendrick cracked the 20-homer barrier, and the pitching staff was filled with a group of unknowns and youngsters, few of whom would enjoy much success at the major league level.

The 2006 Padres would attribute their success largely to the team's pitching staff.

The greatest horseshoe pitching legend emanating from the clay courts of Dimondale tells how Fred Smith Jr. would have his brother Norman place his chin atop an opposing stake while Fred would proceed to pitch ringers that would clang just inches below Norman's smiling face.

On June 25, 2004, Watkins and Thomas announced that they were pitching a reality television show where contestants would compete for a chance to record a single and perform in concert with the two of them.

The Los Angeles Dodgers offered Fingers a signing bonus of $ 20, 000, but because they had a solid pitching staff, that included Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale, were already winning pennants, and their farm system appeared to be full of talented players, he felt he would not make it the major leagues for years.

In the playoffs, after the operation on his ankle, Schilling wrote " K ALS " ( short for " strike out ALS ") on his shoe, knowing that the cameras would be focusing on his foot numerous times while he was pitching.

However that same season Mays, pitching then for the Yankees, played in a World Series that others later would accuse him of helping to throw, bringing back still-lingering memories of the Black Sox scandal from just two years prior.

The Cubs had agreed upon a deal to send Santo to the California Angels ; the ballclub would have received in return two young pitchers: Andy Hassler, who went on to have a middling career as a reliever / spot starter, and Bruce Heinbechner, a very highly-regarded left-handed pitching prospect.

It would be his first and only pitching appearance in Yankee Stadium, having spent the majority of his career in the National League before the inception of interleague play.

In the past, a reliever pitching three innings one game would be unavailable to pitch the next game.

With Phil pitching a no-hitter in 1973, the Niekros would have been the first brothers to pitch Major League no-hitters.

( The Forsch brothers would eventually become the first, and the only ones as of 2012, to have that distinction, Bob pitching two, in 1978 and 1983, and Ken in 1979.

He also said he knew Nickelodeon would not want a series about human characters because everybody else was pitching shows about animals.

The fans would do this to show that the opposing team is " chicken " for not pitching right to the Giants players.

In London especially, the aged ale would take on a tart note from a secondary fermentation with brettanomyces yeast which was present either in the pitching yeast or in the wooden equipment.

Recovery would take a year or more ; furthermore, a return to major league pitching after a second Tommy John operation ( Gagné's first was in 1997 ) is nearly unprecedented, having since been achieved by another Dodger reliever, the Taiwanese left-hander Hong-Chih Kuo.

The spots comedically portrayed him taking batting practice ( swinging ineptly at balls from a pitching machine ) in his hope that he would break Roger Maris ' then-single-season record for home runs.

However, under modern scoring rules, Miller would get the win, being the " pitcher of record " when he left the game, and Radbourn would have been credited with a save, for ( ironically enough ) closing the game and " pitching effectively for three or more innings ".

The progression of the catcher positioning himself closer to the plate would lead to changes in pitching deliveries that would revolutionize the sport.

Shea, the chairman of Mayor Wagner's Baseball Committee, will be joined on the dais by Warren Spahn, the southpaw pitching ace of the Milwaukee Braves ; ;

Squeezed out of the front of the hand with the thumb and first and second fingers, it keeps deceptively low after pitching and can accordingly be very difficult to play.

It is unlikely that any gnōmōn could be read accurately on the pitching deck of a small vessel at night.

To distinguish between the two horizontal axes, rotation around the wheel hub will be called spinning, and rotation around the gimbal axis will be called pitching.

The pitching matchup turned out to be a sideline, as the Giants won the first game of the World Series by 11 – 7 over the Rangers, backed by Freddy Sanchez's three doubles, setting a World Series record for being the first player to hit three consecutive doubles in their first three at bats.

** The MCC makes an ultimately controversial decision to alter the lbw rule so a batsman can be lbw to a ball pitching outside off stump.

This sketch can be helpful in " pitching " the idea to a prospective producer, director or composer.

These images, combined with the recorded flight time history, can be used to obtain critical aerodynamic parameters such as lift, drag, static and dynamic stability, flow characteristics, and pitching moment coefficients.

Passed balls and wild pitches are considered to be part of the act of pitching rather than fielding.

There tends to be a higher incidence of passed balls when a knuckleballer is pitching.

And, it means that the image can be quickly found which is important when looking at birds or game animals that move rapidly, or by a seaman on the deck of a pitching boat.

With Major League Baseball moving from the four-man pitching rotation of McLain's era to five-man rotations, and with the increased reliance on relief pitchers, some observers opine that there may not be another 30-game winner as the game is played today.

Song pitching can be done on a songwriter's behalf by their publisher or independently using tip sheets like RowFax, the MusicRow publication, and SongQuarters.

A pitching tool may also be used at this early stage ; which is a wedge-shaped chisel with a broad, flat edge.

Despite pitching his ideas regarding the movie, the voice of Solid Snake, David Hayter, will not be writing the final script, appearing in the movie or directing the film.

On the downside, the blade pitching mechanism is complex and generally heavy, and some sort of wind-direction sensor needs to be added in order to pitch the blades properly.

The game is considered by many to be the most dominant pitching performance in the history of baseball.

This change has been brought about by strict adherence to pitch counts as a basis for removing a pitcher, even though he may appear to be pitching well, and new pitching philosophies in general.

* BB — Base on balls ( also called a " walk "): times pitching four balls, allowing the batter to take first base

* BK — Balk: number of times pitcher commits an illegal pitching action while in contact with the pitching rubber as judged by umpire, resulting in baserunners advancing one base

* FIP — Fielding independent pitching: a metric, scaled to resemble an ERA, that focuses on events within the pitcher's control — home runs, walks, and strikeouts

* IP — Innings pitched: number of outs recorded while pitching divided by three

* L — Loss: number of games where pitcher was pitching while the opposing team took the lead, never lost the lead, and went on to win

* W — Win: number of games where pitcher was pitching while his team took the lead and went on to win, also the starter needs to pitch at least 5 innings of work ( also related: winning percentage )

However, the pitching staff — a strong point for the team in 1995 — was beset by injuries: Bill Swift, who went 9 – 3 in 1995, started just three games, and the staff ERA ballooned to 5. 60.

In addition, the pitching staff posted a 4. 66 ERA — the best in team history — and starters Jason Jennings, Aaron Cook, and Jeff Francis had good seasons.

It came after the umpire allegedly told Hank that he was ready to call the game due to darkness, because the ump — former Yankee pitching star of the 1920s Murderers Row team, George Pipgras, supposedly said " Sorry Hank, but I'm gonna have to call the game.

Until June 1, 2012, no pitcher in Mets history had thrown a no-hitter, and the franchise's hurlers had gone 8, 019 games without pitching one — longer than any other Major League franchise.

* Stable — the historical building had a hayloft on the first floor and a pitching door at the front.

( Gossage, for example, was moved to the starting rotation after a first few seasons in relief — and he got clobbered despite pitching 17 complete games and was then moved back to the bullpen to stay.

The pain and infection was unbearable, and now Oh faced the prospect of pitching two more games — on back-to-back days — for the championship.

However, he did not fare as well pitching in Game 2 of the ALCS against Cleveland, surrendering nine hits — two of them home runs — and five earned runs in just 4 innings.

On January 5, 2009, Time published another article about MEK and reported: " Despite its position on the U. S. terrorist list since 1997, and reports by former members of abusive and cultlike practices at Ashraf, the MEK has gathered support from some surprising places abroad — especially since the U. S. invasion — by pitching itself as a viable opposition to the mullahs in Tehran.

The pitching team is likely to change pitch selection and defensive alignment to make one of the more common double plays — the ones involving infield ground balls — more likely.