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Here's The Pitch
2008.03.01
Watch the ball hit the bat.
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Watch the ball hit the bat.
1
Warmup pitch
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Warmup pitch
2
Down the middle
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Down the middle
3
Called strike three!
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Called strike three!
4
Level swing line drive
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Level swing line drive
5
Here's the pitch.
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Here's the pitch.
6
Too low
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Too low
7
Taking one for the team
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Taking one for the team
8
Collision on the way to the plate
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Collision on the way to the plate
9
Big swing and a drive to left
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Big swing and a drive to left
10
Fouled straight back
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Fouled straight back
11
Jammed and a grounder to second
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Jammed and a grounder to second
12
Back up the middle
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Back up the middle
13
Run number twelve for the visitors
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Run number twelve for the visitors
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Ok, here we go, we got a real pressure cooker
going here, two down, nobody on, no score,
bottom of the ninth, there's the wind-up and
there it is, a line shot up the middle, look
at him go. This boy can really fly!
He's rounding first and really turning it on
now, he's not letting up at all, he's gonna
try for second; the ball is bobbled out in center,
and here comes the throw, and what a throw!
He's gonna slide in head first, here he comes, he's out!
No, wait, safe--safe at second base, this kid really
makes things happen out there.
Batter steps up to the plate, here's the pitch--
he's going, and what a jump he's got, he's trying
for third, here's the throw, it's in the dirt--
safe at third! Holy cow, stolen base!
He's taking a pretty big lead out there, almost
daring him to try and pick him off. The pitcher
glance over, winds up, and it's bunted, bunted
down the third base line, the suicide squeeze in on!
Here he comes, squeeze play, it's gonna be close,
here's the throw, there's the play at the plate,
holy cow, I think he's gonna make it!
Paradise by the Dashboard Light, Jim Steinman (popularized by Meat Loaf and Ellen Foley)
I took these shots from the bleachers behind home plate during a baseball game at my daughter's high school.
