11.   Mel Stottlemyre wants to pitch batting practice by midseason.

12.   One of the highlights of spring comes when Pedro pitches live batting practice to his teammates.

13.   One of those is assigning someone else to pitch batting practice when senior outfielder Chris Connally is standing at the plate.

14.   Paul Wilson, who threw in the bullpen on Tuesday, is scheduled to pitch batting practice for the second time on Friday, in Cincinnati.

15.   Pitcher Mike Munoz, on the disabled list with tendinitis in his left elbow, is scheduled to pitch batting practice for the first time tomorrow.

16.   Reliever Darren Hall, on the disabled list since early April with a torn right rotator cuff, threw in the bullpen Tuesday and might pitch batting practice Thursday....

17.   Sunday, the Yankees quickly went to work on Cummings, yet another Seattle starter who might as well have been pitching batting practice to the Yankees.

18.   The fastballs were on the corner, just off the corner and then on the corner again, stifling Piazza and making batting practice seem like pitching practice.

19.   The next step is pitching batting practice, followed by a rehab assignment.

20.   They hired Jeff Latourneau, a knuckleballer from Grafton, Mass., to pitch batting practice.