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Last week, in the late innings of a close game, with a runner on third and the count full, I stepped back into the batter??€™s box and stared straight ahead at the pitcher. My fingers flexed nervously around the handle of the bat and my stomach churned over the words of a lonely, scary thought: it’s all riding on you. I swallowed once and then once more, and for a second I felt like a real athlete again. But then the pitch came in underhand, and very, very slow, and the spirit...
...coming off his second summer in the Cape Cod League, was a weekend starter during his first two seasons with the Crimson. But he began struggling at the tail end of last season and—counting his outing on Saturday, when he failed to retire a batter??€”he has just three appearances this year...
Three months after he was struck, Lopez began to swing a bat. He practiced with the team and amazingly had played in three games by year’s end. But in the batter??€™s box, the freshman was confused by what he was seeing—and not seeing...