"That pitch has taken away a lot from the hitters and just about everybody is throwing it now."

"You don't have to worry about how many pitches to throw, trying to set someone up for the second time around," he said.

Now pitching coaches watched to see how many pitches a player had thrown over the game.

He walked two, had no strikeouts and threw 81 pitches, 54 for strikes.

"When the first pitch of the season's thrown, you can throw away salaries, it's a baseball game," Baird said after yesterday's 4-2 loss.

He walked five in a row, threw some pitches against the screen, just like last year.

It was entirely deserted and pitch dark save where on the wall opposite the light from a window immediately below her threw its feeble reflection.

The worst pitch Kile threw cost him his only run.

The next pitch, he spun me down, threw it behind me.

One bad pitch and I threw the game away.