But that night, as his fearsome slider dived with the same bite as last season, when he never blew a save and the Phillies won the World Series, Lidge inexplicably switched and pumped mostly fastballs to Alex Rodriguez and Jorge Posada, who delivered the run-scoring hits.
"The people of Sevastopol are the most patriotic on the planet," says Dimitry Sinichkin, the leather-jacketed leader of a fearsome Crimean biker gang known as the Night Wolves.
As well as her undeniable "smarts", she has a fearsome ambition, which has driven her through night school, to elocution classes during lunch and up against innumerable glass ceilings.
Toll-By-Day and Toll-By-Night are segregated by a fearsome unseen group, known by their incongruously cheerful sleigh-bell warning sounds as the Jinglers.
Work too many nights, however, and daytime becomes a fearsome land full of piercing noises and blurry movement and all these things - you know, loud, flapping creatures - people, that's it.
It's a collection of match reports and anecdotes - stag-night stuff, usually involving feckless team-mates, fearsome opponents, massive hangovers and blithe exaggeration - held together by a voice.
Of the dark night, and terror of the waves, and the fearsome whirlpool?
As the night wound on there was also a conversation about a fearsome gang known as Los Ponis, and about Uncle Celerino, that sinister character from the countryside who told his stories to one of his nephews, the celebrated Mexican author and photographer Juan Rulfo.
In the end, Fritz, 27, a fearsome fighter, appeared to win out and will probably be on the opening-night roster Friday, when the Islanders visit the Devils.
(Jason Zinoman) 'FIFTY WORDS' Norbert Leo Butz and Elizabeth Marvel bring fearsome commitment and insight to Michael Weller's bruising, blow-by-blow account of one long night in a troubled marriage (2 00).
But whatever happened during the night went unmentioned during the day, the unspeakable acts by their very nature confined to a fearsome silence.
