1.   He opened the sixth inning with a breaking ball for a called strike to Greg Gagne.

2.   And he prefers chatting about balls and strikes to the fuzzy math of the federal budget.

3.   And with easy, compact motions, Kendall fires strikes to second base.

4.   And then when they won a Super Bowl, what got them started was a deep strike to Antonio Freeman.

5.   Ankiel opened the second inning with three straight called strikes to Jim Leyritz.

6.   A strike to even the count, and the crowd roared.

7.   A two-out third strike to Karros skipped past Piazza for a wild pitch and enabled Karros to take first base.

8.   After a pair of strikeouts, including a called strike to McGwire, native Ron Gant delivered a run-scoring single.

9.   Brown ran it down and threw an off-balance strike to first for the out.

10.   Both sides had repeatedly said they wanted to bring the strike to a quick conclusion.