Part of the problem was her own nervousness, but Clijsters, the first Belgian to appear in a Grand Slam final, contributed to her unease with a succession of wicked drives, particularly off the forehand wing.
Minutes before the home run, Reed was whacked on the left wrist by a wicked line drive hit by Andruw Jones.
The wicked line drive shocked the 7-year-old pitcher, who quickly raised his glove yet still missed the ball.
He is batting.286 and last night he went hitless, including a wicked line drive that the pitcher, Jeff Nelson, converted into a double play to end the sixth.
Huff seemed in good spirits Sunday morning, joking and laughing in the Cleveland dugout less than 24 hours after a wicked line drive by Alex Rodriguez struck him in the left side of his head.
The Dodgers pulled ahead, 4-3, in the sixth on Adrian Gonzalez's sacrifice fly, which came after the Dodgers loaded the bases on singles by Van Slyke and Pederson and Chase Utley's wicked line drive that went off leaping Angels second baseman Taylor Featherston's glove for a hit.
Serving at 4-1 in the third set, Baker saved one break point on a backhand, backspinning drop shot, then another on a wicked, line-drive volley.
Oh's home runs were usually wicked line drives, not high fly balls, and they sometimes put dents in the outfield seats.
When the story's wicked queen, driven wild with envy, fails to kill her beautiful step-daughter with a corset laced tightly enough to suffocate, she tries another method of murder: "Then, with the art of witchcraft, which she understood, she made a poisoned comb," the story goes.
