61.   The Yankees will try to improve their on-base percentage this season, but Torre will not instruct Jeter to take pitches.

62.   They are taking pitches, showing a willingness to accept walks and create scoring situations.

63.   They take more pitches, look to punch outside pitches to the opposite field, and generally tax the enemy pitchers with their patience.

64.   They cheered again in the third inning, and Butler took a couple pitches, then steered the ball, and flied to shallow left field.

65.   This Sunday, he will take his pitch to St. Charles County, a largely white suburban area that now has more Catholics than the city itself.

66.   Torii Hunter seemed too eager when he did not bother taking a pitch after the walk and popped out to second.

67.   We were taking good pitches.

68.   When I played in San Diego, the National League pitchers were new and I took more pitches.

69.   With one strike, Phillips took a pitch that was wide, barely twitched his bat, but the third-base ump ruled that Phillips went around.

70.   Within the last few years, the fund industry has indeed taken its pitch to television, but its reaction to the medium has so far been mixed.