Pena paid the pitcher a mound visit but stuck with him, and Deduno struck out Angel Pagan swinging after falling behind 2-0.
Instead, the son of a man who died in the attacks put the ball on the pitcher's mound.
Others think the sport itself needs to change to attract more attention, possibly by moving back the pitcher's mound so the game can have more offense.
It ran out of gas on the way to Indianapolis, fell from the sky and struck the backstop of a baseball field before slamming nose first into the pitcher's mound.
A. Dickey had been on a pitcher's mound in New York, Mets fans showered him with affection in September after he became the team's first 20-game winner in more than two decades.
Lee, amazingly, was chosen by the Red Sox to throw out the first pitch, despite wearing a Derek Jeter jersey and Yankees cap in the sacred confines of Fenway Park--atop the pitcher's mound no less.
And as long as there are fairground grandstands on summer nights, as long as there are small-town ballparks with stages where the pitcher's mound should be, the singers will get to keep delivering the goods.
When Hall of Fame baseball pitcher Randy Johnson took the mound during his prime, he was known as The Walking Infirmary.
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Especially, notes sports marketing specialist Bob Dorfman of Baker Street Advertising in San Francisco, when the attraction of a manager extends no further than the occasional stroll to the mound to yank his pitcher.
Owners tinker with the pitching mound (the higher the mound, the bigger the advantage to the pitcher), the weight of the ball and the ballpark dimensions.
Will a major-league pitcher eventually ride a people mover from the bullpen to the mound?
On the mound for the Red Sox was starter and ace pitcher, Pedro Martinez, protecting a 5--2 lead.
As unhittable as he was in the regular season, the pitcher admitted to being "nervous" when he took the mound at Yankee Stadium to protect a 2-0 Seattle lead in the 9th inning of Game 1 of the championship series.
Aug. 22, 1968 Chicago White Sox pitcher Tommy John throws a pitch over the head of Detroit's Dick McAuliffe, who charges the mound.
Happ's injury was the latest to a pitcher struck by a batted ball, and Major League Baseball has discussed ways to protect hurlers on the mound.
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