11.   Batters are hitting good pitches as well as the bad.

12.   Conspiracy theorists suspect that the ball has been doctored to make it easier for batters to hit it out of the park.

13.   During one stretch in the early innings, five out of six batters hit balls directly at Lowe.

14.   Every fly ball the Philadelphia batters hit last Thursday night seemed to find Hundley, and he butchered too many of them.

15.   He cited a game in which San Francisco batters hit some slow infield grounders and scored some runs as a result.

16.   He kept the ball down and got batters to hit the ball on the ground.

17.   It enlarges the spot where the batter will achieve maximum speed on the ball, so batters hit better with less sting.

18.   Johnny Oates showed confidence in rookie third baseman Mike Lamb, allowing the left-handed batter to hit against lefty reliever Arthur Rhodes in the eighth inning.

19.   La Russa compares the negotiations to a well-known occurrence in a baseball game when two teams each has a batter hit by a pitch.

20.   No batter could hit him.