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ERRATIC PITCHING.(performance anxiety of baseball players)
It's unnerving when a hurler loses control
JOHN BURKE AND BRUCE RUFFIN called it The Creature, that extreme wildness and hideous lack of control both pitchers fought to overcome.
They know the frustration, the anxiety, the helplessness and the embarrassment of being on the mound and throwing pitches nowhere near home plate, heaving some to the backstop.
Ruffin went through this torture twice and Burke once. They overcame it, to the degree possible. And when they watched Rick Ankiel of the St. Louis Cardinals, they winced. They know what it's like to be in the grip of The Creature.
There are alternate names that convey the fiendish ...
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- Newspaper article from: The Dallas Morning News (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) March 10, 2005 700+ words
...After two scoreless innings, Ankiel collapsed. He had four walks...finishing the third inning. Ankiel never recovered from the shattering...Championship Series against the New York Mets and allowed five walks...three runs in 1 1/3 innings. Ankiel had 25 walks in 24 innings...
- Cardinals' Ankiel won't say if he used HGH.
- Newspaper article from: St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, MO) September 7, 2007 700+ words
...Louis Cardinals right fielder Rick Ankiel and club officials insisted Friday that...always been under a doctor's care," Ankiel said. The New York Daily News reported in its Friday editions that Ankiel had received eight shipments of human...
- Cardinals' Ankiel isn't the first to lose control.(The Dallas Morning News)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Townsend, Brad June 4, 2001 700+ words
...spectacle. No one, including Ankiel, can predict when his pitches...feet in front of the plate. Ankiel is, simply, an immensely...of athletes, including the New York Yankees and Dallas-born golfers...because he is mostly viewing Ankiel's case from the outside...
- Cardinals' Ankiel isn't the first to lose control.
- News wire article from: Dallas Morning News June 4, 2001 700+ words
...spectacle. No one, including Ankiel, can predict when his pitches...feet in front of the plate. Ankiel is, simply, an immensely...of athletes, including the New York Yankees and Dallas-born golfers...because he is mostly viewing Ankiel's case from the outside...
- Cardinals' chairman says Ankiel case `unusual'.
- Newspaper article from: St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, MO) September 8, 2007 700+ words
...legally prescribed property. Ankiel said Friday he would honor a...matter. DeWitt noted that if Ankiel used HGH in 2004, he did so...substances. Records obtained by the New York Daily News showed that Ankiel received eight shipments of...
- Wild things Ankiel, Knoblauch startthe spring where they left off.(Chicago...
- News wire article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Rogers, Phil March 6, 2001 700+ words
JUPITER, Fla._Rick Ankiel went from ascending superstar...it. But the feeling is that Ankiel is doomed until he and his...Cuban missile crisis. The New York Yankees are facing the same...the shadows, where they hope Ankiel will be left alone to overcome...
- Ankiel yanked after wildness in crucial Game 2.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Sanders, Norm October 12, 2000 700+ words
...Cardinals rookie pitcher Rick Ankiel took another bizarre twist Thursday. Ankiel's first pitch in Game 2...sailed over the head over New York leadoff batter Timo Perez...rendition of "Wild Thing." Ankiel, 21, tossed two wild pitches...
- Ankiel yanked after wildness in crucial Game 2.
- News wire article from: Belleville News-Democrat (Belleville, IL) October 13, 2000 700+ words
...Cardinals rookie pitcher Rick Ankiel took another bizarre twist Thursday. Ankiel's first pitch in Game 2...sailed over the head over New York leadoff batter Timo Perez...rendition of "Wild Thing." Ankiel, 21, tossed two wild pitches...
- Wild Ankiel walks 8; he's a sympathy Card.
- News wire article from: South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL) March 18, 2001 700+ words
...Cardinals starter Rick Ankiel said he hoped "to...Tuesday against the New York Mets. He didn't. Ankiel, a 21-year-old...Chuck Knoblauch of the New York Yankees have had it...man" is bothering Ankiel. They expect him to...
- Wild Ankiel walks 8; he's a sympathy Card.(South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
- News wire article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Barnes, Craig March 18, 2001 700+ words
...Cardinals starter Rick Ankiel said he hoped "to...Tuesday against the New York Mets. He didn't. Ankiel, a 21-year-old...Chuck Knoblauch of the New York Yankees have had it...man" is bothering Ankiel. They expect him to...
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