http://tomferda.com Sportswriter Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:48:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://tomferda.com/mlb/great-hitting-pitchers-in-mlb/ http://tomferda.com/mlb/great-hitting-pitchers-in-mlb/#comments Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:38:05 +0000 Tom Ferda http://tomferda.com/?p=83 Previously published in Baseball Digest Daily on July 15, 2008. It's the bottom of the 6th inning with two outs and a man on base for the Arizona Diamondbacks who trail the visiting Houston Astros 7-5. The raucous crowd of Diamondback fans at Chase Field rise to their feet as the pinch hitter digs in, awaiting the delivery. The pitcher Dave Borkowski, confident, rears back and fires the ball, challenging the hitter. The ball is greeted with a solid crack of the bat and the crowd erupts as the ball sails into the right field seats for a two-run pinch hit homer to tie the game. In a matter of seconds, one pitch, one crack of the bat. . . and two runs on the board for the Diamondbacks. Unusual? This time it was.]]> http://tomferda.com/mlb/great-hitting-pitchers-in-mlb/feed/ 0