31.   Harold Baines, as a good a ninth-inning hitter as there is, simply crushed a Sasaki pitch.

32.   He is not susceptible to the same pattern of pitching once he falls behind in the count, as many hitters are.

33.   He needs more from a sound system, especially when the major hitters are the likes of Pavarotti, Domingo and Carreras.

34.   He might have been due for an off night, but the Red Sox hitters were not.

35.   His fellow big hitters were impressed.

36.   Hitters are more sensitive than ever about being brushed back or struck by a pitch.

37.   Hitters have been the same since I came up.

38.   However, given another shot at building their cases for salary arbitration, Dodger hitters were shut out for seven innings in the rematch.

39.   How good a hitter is Teixeira?

40.   Hitters are bigger and stronger, parks are smaller and expansion has diluted the pitching.