Next time up, Josh said, 'We're going to find out if you can hit a curveball.' I singled.
Cuomo did not go all the way in baseball (he couldn't hit a curveball).
"They can hit a curveball like a lot of college players," Mr. Clyde said.
(Rico Carty ascribed his ability to hit a curveball to the fact that socks tend to be aerodynamically unstable).
Matt Lawton singled, and Piazza hit a curveball over the wall in right-center for a three-run homer.
Deadlines are deadlines, and part of this gig, like playing for the Yankees, is being able to hit a curveball in the spring.
Reliever Satoru Komiyama allowed a sacrifice fly to Kenny Lofton before Tony Graffanino hit a curveball into the gap in left-center field for a two-run double.
That was the moment I became determined to learn how to hit a curveball for fear of ever again feeling like a frozen popsicle, the way I did when I first saw Olson's Zeus-like hammer.
His manager, Rich Donnelly, said Nimmo needed to learn to hit a curveball, like any other 19-year-old drafted out of high school, but Donnelly has threatened Nimmo with sprints if he doesn't stop calling him sir, a reflection of his upbringing.
Indeed, the imagery that peppers Gould's writing is redolent of the sounds and scents of his beloved city, right down to his fanatical support for the New York Yankees and his devotion to the memory of Joe di Maggio (although he admits to being merely 'a 190lb guy who can't hit a curveball').
