1.   A year ago, USC pitcher Scott Henderson spent more time charting pitches in the dugout than throwing them off a mound.

2.   Gossage has pitched in four playoffs, three World Series and nine All-Star Games and thrown championship-clinching pitches six times.

3.   He can throw any pitch any time he wants.

4.   He has been hit by a pitch four times this season when no one else on the team has been hit more than once.

5.   I was sorely mistaken after watching him pitch a few times, realizing there was another level there.

6.   Sheffield also has been hit by pitches six times.

7.   The Anaheim Angels were hit by pitches five times in the three-game series against the Mariners last weekend.

8.   Armed police came onto the pitch three times.

9.   But Dutch club Ajax has been known to replace its pitch five times a season.

10.   Richard Hidalgo has been hit by a pitch seven times, which leads the league.