61.   Posada struck out, however, taking a pitch over the outside corner.

62.   Savvy pitchers are able to sneak a breaking pitch on the outside corner and get Macfarlane lunging for it.

63.   Set him up with two pretty good fastballs on the outside corner.

64.   Ryan threw a low fastball that brushed the dirt off the outside corner.

65.   Slider on the outside corner.

66.   Smoltz touched the outside corners all day, and that hardly helped.

67.   Split end Andre Johnson sprinted around the outside corners to make catches.

68.   Strawberry was next, and Texas catcher Ivan Rodriguez called for a fastball, shifting his body behind the outside corner as he set his glove for Loaiza.

69.   Spotting his fastball on the inside corner and brushing the outside corner with breaking balls and changeups, Reed confounded the Pirates for eight determined innings.

70.   Taylor tried a fastball to the outside corner, Strawberry fouled it down the left field line and Torre was encouraged.