1.   And then came the pitch.

2.   Another Fassero mistake pitch came against Gomez in the fourth inning.

3.   Before this at-bat, in the sixth inning, Spencer told himself to stay back and wait for the pitch to come to him.

4.   A pitch came in.

5.   After getting a call from a telemarketer, Lowell Nelson noticed the pitch came from a jail inmate telephone.

6.   But Helling told Palmer what pitches were coming.

7.   But the pitches came so fast that many of them would flinch and jump back.

8.   Hermanson threw a breaking ball with two strikes and Irabu tumbled onto his back although the pitch never came close to hitting him.

9.   Here comes the pitch ...I see into the night.

10.   His pitch comes at a time of shifting national attitudes toward immigrants, particularly those from Mexico.