To make room on the 40-man roster, New York designated righty Cody Eppley for assignment.
To even the playing field, right-handed grown-ups had to bat lefty and left-handed adults went righty.
The most famous player who batted righty and threw lefty was Hall of Famer Rickey Henderson.
Federer versus Nadal always offered contrast: Offense versus defense, righty versus lefty, pace versus spin.
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But his ERA has been on the rise, and it seems the young righty is beginning to tire.
Louis Cardinals righty Shelby Miller has emerged as an early favorite for the National League Rookie of the Year.
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Mayberry, starting against a righty instead of the left-handed hitting Laynce Nix, finished 2 for 4 with three RBIs.
But if it only relates to observation, why wouldn't every left-handed thrower with right-handed friends and family bat righty?
Evert was a righty with a baseline game anchored by her two-handed backhand.
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The righty missed nearly two months in the middle of the season because of a strained back muscle near his shoulder.
The 26-year-old righty walked two against a team that entered with 142 bases on balls 25 more than any other team.
Oddly, at the presser, Girardi said he decided against the move because Detroit manager Jim Leyland would have switched to righty Joaquin Benoit.
"All righty, then, " we said to one another, with false bravado.
The most comparable pitcher to Sale is probably Jack McDowell, the 180-pound righty who won the American League Cy Young Award for the White Sox in 1993.
With the Yanks down 3-0 in the American League Championship Series and facing elimination Wednesday, A-Rod was not in the starting lineup against righty Max Scherzer before the game was eventually rained out.
Strasburg, the hard-throwing righty, tossed seven shutout innings.
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Cano earned MVP honors, Erick Aybar added an RBI double to back winner Samuel Deduno, and the demonstrative Dominican righty threw his arms into the air in delight after watching a run-saving defensive gem by center fielder Alejandro De Aza in a tough fifth.
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