They need outs and innings from Pettitte and, oh, by the way, they need him to defend the home front against the strike machine named Cliff Lee.
Aggregate goals were 2-2. 1, 1, 1 – Regular season goals scored by three of the Timbers' four-headed strike machine consisting of Jose Valencia, Frederic Piquionne, Maximiliano Urruti and Ryan Johnson, the latter of whom had nine.
In theory, it's the same swing every time, which can make him a ball-striking machine when he's on.
Carbs gets a tip-and-run single next ball, he's suddenly a strike-turning machine.
Girardi called Colon a "strike-throwing machine," though as the spring progresses, the Yankees will undoubtedly be monitoring the quality of those strikes.
Normally a strike-throwing machine, he walked two batters in the first inning alone, matching his high in his previous 12 starts.
That made Roth 8-0 with a 1.33 earned run average over his career in the N.C.A.A. tournament, and 4-0 with a 1.34 E.R.A. in the C.W.S. "He is a strike-throwing machine," Kent State Coach Scott Stricklin said of Roth, a Los Angeles Angels draftee.
But because she is not a member of the L.P.G.A., Shin, a 5-foot-1 ball-striking machine, was known mostly to golf insiders and aficionados.
Christophe watched Thys pedal away and then carried his stricken machine 10km to a forge at Sainte-Marie-de-Campan.
Trailing Woods by two strokes was a large group at 69 headed by the Australian ball-striking machine Robert Allenby, Hunter Mahan, Vijay Singh of Fiji, David Toms and the long-hitting Álvaro Quirós of Spain.
