When Young's career began, pitchers delivered the baseball underhand and fouls were not counted as strikes.

When Hank Aaron said that pitchers should not be eligible for the MVP, Clemens responded: " I wish he were still playing.

When Bavasi let Ryan leave after a 16 – 14 record in the 1979 season, Bavasi remarked he only needed to replace Ryan with two 8 – 7 pitchers, adding, " I think my plumber could do that.

When originally developed, the knuckleball was used by a number of pitchers as simply one pitch in their repertoire, usually as part of changing speeds from their fastball.

When Fingers reached the major leagues, the role of relief pitchers was limited, as starting pitchers rarely left games while holding a lead ; but as team offense increased following the 1968 season, and especially with the American League's introduction of the designated hitter in 1973, managers became more willing to replace starters in the late innings with a lead in order to forestall any late rallies by opponents.

When this happens, pitchers will occasionally be able to record four strikeouts in one half-inning.

When the Milwaukee Brewers moved from the American League to the NL in 1998, the Brewers no longer used the DH on a regular basis ; thus, as also usually happens when a minor-league pitcher joins an NL team, their pitchers needed to take batting practice.

When he retired he also ranked third in major league history in career games pitched ( 1, 002 ), and he remains third in wins in relief ( 115 ) and innings pitched in relief ( 1, 556⅔ ); his 1, 502 strikeouts place him behind only Hoyt Wilhelm among pitchers who primarily pitched in relief.

When Dwight Gooden was placed on the disabled list in early July, the Mets begin actively looking for a veteran starting pitcher via trade rather than promote from within into the open rotation slot with young pitchers such as Aguilera, Kevin Tapani, and David West rumored as trade bait.

When a tenth-inning bench-clearing fight ended, three Mets players were out of the game and they were forced to spend the rest of the game with a pitcher in the outfield and two pitchers in the batting lineup.

When one of the pitchers, Jesse Orosco, drew a walk in the fourteenth inning, Johnson followed with a three-run home run which led to a Mets win.

When the pitch was outlawed in 1920, MLB did recognise that some professional pitchers had nearly built their careers on using the spitball.

When Commodore Macdonough, the distinguished commander of the flotilla on Lake Champlain, visited Lansingburgh, April 8, 1815, on his way to New York, be was welcomed by a large concourse of citizens, headed by a committee, who presented to him a pair of handsome pitchers and a dozen goblets.

When 1985 started, the Red Sox were overstocked on starting pitchers, including a young Roger Clemens, so Ojeda was relegated to the bullpen.

When I show up he will know you are a good wife to have told him about it ''.

When the Know-nothings get control, it will read, All men are created equal except Negroes and foreigners and Catholics.

When the reactionary response is thus bolstered by an intellectual defense, the characteristics of that defense are explicable only in terms of the basic attitudes of unanalyzed reaction.

When combined with the metaphysical notion that pure forms of this universe are best appreciated when least embodied in a material substratum, it becomes clear that while earth will be dross on a scale of material-formal ratios, celestial bodies will be of a subtle, quickened, ethereal existence, in whose embodiment pure form will be the dominant component and matter will be absent or remain subsidiary.

She used to tell me, `` When I stand there and look at the flag blowing this way and that way, I have the wonderful, safe feeling that Americans are protected no matter which way the wind blows ''.

When we consider the disorganized state of the world community, and the legacy of predispositions adversely directed against all who are identified as Jews, it is obvious that the struggle for the minds and muscles of men needs to be prosecuted with increasing vigor and skill.

When these fields are surveyed together, important patterns of relationship emerge indicating a vast community of reciprocal influence, a continuity of thought and expression including many traditions, primarily literary, religious, and philosophical, but frequently including contact with the fine arts and even, to some extent, with science.

When different colors are used, she is just as likely to color trees purple, hair green, etc..

When finally the two bedraggled men reach their friend's home, Voltaire's fears are once again aroused.

`` When are you to leave ''??

When the roof blocks are all in place, the final rows of wall blocks are mortared into position.

When the aid operations are reorganized the Peace Corps should remain a semi-autonomous, functional unit.

When the budget goes to trustees for approval it is the president's budget, to which his faith and credit are committed ; ;

When they have 4 to 6 leaves and are thrifty little plants, it's time to set them out where they are to remain.

When aircraft are no longer helpless on airfields, they are no longer vulnerable to Aj.

When more than two figures are separated by subtraction symbols the subtraction must be carried out from the left to right if the result is to be correct.

When they're on, the top edges are planed even with the sheer batten.

When painting, Mason's physical eyes are half-closed, while his mind's eye is wide open, and this circumstance accounts in part for the impression he wishes to convey.

When improvements are recommended in working conditions -- such as lighting, rest rooms, eating facilities, air-conditioning -- do you try to set a measure of their effectiveness on productivity??

When sufficiently accurate and complete measurements are available, it will be possible to set limits on the thermal and electrical characteristics of the surface and subsurface materials of the moon.

When some thirteen records of newly and recently born individuals are collated, little or no correlation between length and distribution can be detected.

When three dice are tossed repeatedly, what is the probability that the number of aces is 0 ( or 1, or 2, or 3 )??

When fame came it changed Sandburg only slightly.

When that was broken up after the First World War, its name was changed once more.

When such a reference is found, an actual address is assigned and the availability table is changed so that the assigned index word or switch is no longer available for later assignment.

When Salieri retired from the stage, he recognized that artistic styles had changed and he felt that he no longer had the creative capacity to adapt or the emotional desire to continue.

When AA was ported to the English Electric KDF9 computer, the character set was changed to ISO and that compiler has been recovered from an old paper tape by the Edinburgh Computer History Project and is available online, as is a high-quality scan of the original Edinburgh version of the Atlas Autocode manual.

( When the award name was changed in 1954, Capp also retroactively received a Reuben statuette.

When the name was changed to Inprise, many thought Borland had gone out of business.

When Louis XIV learnt of the disaster he recalled Marshal Vendôme from northern Italy to take command in Flanders ; but it would be weeks before the command changed hands.

When his quest to keep the team in Milwaukee finally failed after the 1965 season, he changed the group's name to Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, Inc., after the minor league baseball team he grew up watching, and devoted himself to returning Major League Baseball to Milwaukee.

When the conservative party was beaten by the opposition party in the general election, it changed its form again to follow the party members ' demand for reforms.

When the programme went fully networked on 6 March 1961, broadcast days changed to Monday and Wednesday.

When they decided to broadcast the programme, national transmission was changed from Wednesday and Friday at 19: 00 to Monday and Wednesday at 19: 30 and the programme became fully networked under this new arrangement from episode 25 on Monday 6 March 1961.

When the oak plantations matured in the mid-19th century, the masts were no longer required because shipping had changed.

When the keyboard processor detects that a key has changed state, it sends a signal to the CPU indicating the scan code of the key and its new state.

When David was finally released to the country, France had changed.

When matter ( ordinary material particles ) is changed into energy ( such as energy of motion, or into radiation ), the mass of the system does not change through the transformation process.

When Euripides's plays are sequenced in time, they also reveal that his outlook might have changed, providing a " spiritual biography " along these lines:

When Estonia was invaded and occupied by the Soviet Union in World War II, the status of the Estonian language changed to the first of two official languages ( Russian being the other one ).

When Charles finally did propose marriage to Amanda later in 1979, the circumstances were tragically changed, and she refused him.

When a woman remarried, she may have changed her name and the names of her children ; only her name ; or changed no names.

When the border between Spain and Gibraltar was eventually closed by the Spanish dictator in 1969, the newspaper changed its ownership and begun to be published in English.

When Walpole admitted to his authorship in the second edition, its originally favourable reception by literary reviewers changed into rejection.

When the art academy in Amsterdam became part of the higher professional education system in 1968 and was given the status of an Academy for Fine Arts and Design, the name was changed to the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in honour of Rietveld.