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A change-up pitch that appears to arrive at homeplate so slowly that a batter can make three swings and misses on a single pitch. Whiff-whiff-whiff, three strikes and the batter is out. The reference is to Bugs Bunny, the animated cartoon character, who is depicted employing such a pitch in the cartoon Baseball Bugs.
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The Mendoza Line is baseball jargon for a .200 batting average, the supposed threshold for offensive futility at the Major League level. [1] It derives from light-hitting shortstop Mario Mendoza , who failed to reach .200 five times in his nine big league seasons. [ 2 ]
The baseball field that Tom Hanks famously graced in the 1992 film "A League of Their Own" went up in flames Thursday in Ontario, according to authorities.
Wrigley Field, before the 2005–2006 remodeling, with juniper-filled Batter's Eye section visible.. The batter's eye or batter's eye screen is a solid-colored, usually dark area beyond the center field wall of a baseball stadium, that is the visual backdrop directly in the line of sight of a baseball batter, while facing the pitcher and awaiting a pitch.
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