Iwakuma is leading the American League in WHIP and ranks fifth in baseball on the pitching WAR charts - compared with the four pitchers above him, Clay Buchholz, Matt Harvey, Clayton Kershaw and Cliff Lee, he is by far the least recognizable.
"Four-minute men" spring up to pitch war bonds while the reels are changed in movie theaters; a gold-star flag hangs from the window of a house to announce that a son has been killed overseas; patriotic citizens collect peach pits to be used as carbon sources in gas masks.
The precedent being set, then, is one of presidential weakness, not high-minded constitutionalism: Going to Congress is entirely optional, and it's what presidents do when they're pitching wars that they themselves don't fully believe in, and need to rebuild credibility squandered by their own fumbling and failed alliance management.
It all went back to that 11 pitch war with Carpenter, it set the tone for the Cards third, and got to the Dodgers ace, no doubt.
Now Mr. Chirac is pitching his war on smoking as the main pillar of a five-year, $580 million campaign against cancer.
Visually stunning and filled with interesting stylistic flourishes, Shiny Entertainment's real-time strategy sim pitches warring wizards against each other in an exotic fantasy landscape.
By 2006, they left behind warring witches for the equally strange battleground of Drum's Not Dead, pitched as a war between the fictional forces representing creativity (Drum) and anxiety (Mt Heart Attack).
The story they pitched was the war of a contemporary Gandhi against corruption.
In defending the English lyric - mainly by reanimating it - Thomas knew that its structures had been pitched into the war's vortex.
Men who came to power as freedom fighters have all too often pulled power to themselves in one-party states – only to be overthrown in violent military coups, and frequently pitched into civil war.
