91.   The best pitchers have more than one that can fetch that precious strike.

92.   The best hitter of his era facing the best pitcher of the era.

93.   The best pitcher in baseball was nowhere to be found when reporters descended on the Sox clubhouse.

94.   The best pitchers hang curve balls.

95.   The best pitchers in baseball lost games this year.

96.   The best pitcher?

97.   The best pitcher, Pedro Martinez, thinks baseball authorities are out to get him.

98.   The best pitchers get the extra chance.

99.   The Cy Young is supposed to go to the best pitcher in the league, and Johnson leads his American League hilltop counterparts in almost every single significant category.

100.   The classy Hall of Famer many regard as the best pitcher ever to grace a major-league mound should be a treasured resource for the club.