41.   Power hitting, genuine speed, a tight breaking pitch on the outside corner.

42.   Savvy pitchers are able to sneak a breaking pitch on the outside corner and get Macfarlane lunging for it.

43.   Sandy Alomar turned on a Kevin Brown breaking pitch and hammered one out of sight.

44.   Showalter uncovers this because location is not needed with breaking pitches so there is no need to nod twice.

45.   Spencer is very patient at the plate and is not lunging at the breaking pitches that pitches dangle down and away.

46.   The bruised ribs were more damaging than any breaking pitch he has seen.

47.   The high-altitude atmosphere, he insists, adversely affects breaking pitches.

48.   Then they will take their positions in the bottom of the first, and Cal will let Wade know when the breaking pitches are coming.

49.   Then came the breaking pitch that nicked him on the knee.

50.   Throughout the week, pitching coach Al Nipper had stressed to Clemens that he had to return to his breaking pitch, and so he did.