1.   But it was difficult to remember another game in which so many righthanded batters buckled their knees and froze as curveballs whirred across the plate.

2.   Cormier caught Williams, a righthanded batter, off guard with a fastball that tailed inside, and Williams struck out looking.

3.   DiMaggio was a graceful center fielder, a righthanded batter who rarely struck out.

4.   Except for Lance Berkman, a switch hitter, the regular starting lineup is full of righthanded batters.

5.   He now has the heater, the hard curveball and the foshball, which he says moves in on righthanded batters and away to lefthanded hitters.

6.   One of the pages had a silhouette of a lefthanded batter, the other a righthanded batter.

7.   Righthanded batters looked pathetic against Arizona closer Byung-Hyun Kim.

8.   Those are prodigious pokes for a righthanded batter, and what did Nomar have to show for it?

9.   When he was done there, he joined Saberhagen, taking turns pitching to righthanded batter Darren Lewis and lefties Morgan Burkhart and Scott Hatteberg.