1.   But the right-handed batters did some damage against Leiter Thursday night.

2.   But the bafflement is so complete that Posada said the one thing a batter cannot do is precisely what Jeter recommended.

3.   In the end, Posada said, a batter can do only one thing against Pedro Martinez.

4.   In the baseball lexicon, a hole is a place in the swing where batters do poorly.

5.   Oates makes it a point to know what each of his pitchers and batters have done against the opposition.