"We pulled this up and said 'Oh, I think we're onto something, '" says Adam Sharp, Twitter's head of government news and social innovation.

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"There probably is ... zero risk of any of these pesticides in the food supply, " said Adam Sharp, director of governmental relations for the American Farm Bureau Federation.

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When Wood and co-presenters Adam Ferrara and Tanner Foust got a letter from the sharp-tongued Clarkson - who has said American focus groups "just don't get" the programme - they were understandably nervous.

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After Adam Lind had the first of his two doubles, Colby Rasmus hit a sharp liner that Curtis Granderson, playing right field for the first time in his big league career, got spun around on and Lind scored.

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