FYI, Wilson's reportedly attempting an MLB comeback as a knuckleballer.
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C Sandy Leon started and caught knuckleballer RHP Steven Wright.
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"It's almost like facing a knuckleballer," Rangers manager Jeff Banister said.
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Brown was a knuckleballer, but he threw a fastball to McDougald.
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The knuckleballer also threw four wild pitches in his last start.
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Context matters more to a knuckleballer than to any other player.
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"It's almost like facing a knuckleballer," Banister said about batting against Weaver.
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The knuckleballer walked three and struck out five while making 118 pitches.
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The magician shows you the empty hat; the knuckleballer looks like your mailman.
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The knuckleballer is 9-5 with a staff-leading 2.42 ERA in 16 starts.
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Red Sox knuckleballer Steven Wright pitched a scoreless eighth inning in his season debut.
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The same description can be used for how the sixth unfolded for the knuckleballer.
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C Tyler Flowers made his first start of the season catching knuckleballer R.A. Dickey.
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Thole, who is the personal catcher for knuckleballer RHP R.A. Dickey, caught Saturday and Sunday.
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The knuckleballer is 211-27 with an American League-best 24 ERA through 22 starts.
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He became a knuckleballer late in his career, and it made for an improbable success story.
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The matchup: the Braves' Phil Niekro – a master knuckleballer — against Joaquin Andujar of the Houston Astros.
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C Josh Thole is the backup but is used primarily to catch RHP R.A. Dickey, a knuckleballer.
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The 41-year-old knuckleballer has struck out 25 batters and issued 14 walks in 33 innings.
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A knuckleballer should try to come straight down in his follow-through, Johnson said, to kill spin.
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Aside from Beltran's homer, Dickey, a knuckleballer, gave up only two other hits entering the seventh inning.
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Wright stuff: Sox roll over Dodgers LOS ANGELES — Knuckleballer Steven Wright couldn't have scripted a better homecoming.
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Boston's Steven Wright, the only knuckleballer in the majors, will miss the series with a knee injury.
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The knuckleballer beat the Mets on April 27 when he allowed three runs, two earned, in five innings.
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In 1977, at the age of 38, the washed-up fireballer-turned-knuckleballer began an incredible comeback journey.
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Pomeranz's addition also means right-handed knuckleballer Steven Wright wasn't brought back into the fold by the Red Sox.
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They have other knuckleballers in their system, and a former knuckleballer, Charlie Haeger, is their minor league pitching coordinator.
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In the enclosed, humid space of their dome, the Rays believe, a knuckleballer has a better chance to succeed.
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Michael Pineda allowed three home runs and the Yankees were baffled by the knuckleballer Steven Wright for five innings.
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That leaves the Boston knuckleballer Steven Wright and Toronto's Aaron Sanchez as the only other starters on our team.
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Instead, Girardi told him in the afternoon that he would start only Thursday's game against the knuckleballer Steven Wright.
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Bogaerts (217-for-26) and right fielder Mookie Betts (24-for-31) have enjoyed their encounters with the knuckleballer.
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The Red Sox will go with right-handed knuckleballer Steven Wright as their starter on Monday at Camden Yards.
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When he showed it off again in an impromptu audition for the greatest knuckleballer alive, Niekro, the pitch still worked.
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The knuckleballer has given up seven earned runs in the six games, none in three of his last four starts.
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The 33-year-old knuckleballer made just five starts in 2017 before undergoing season-ending surgery on the left knee.
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The veteran knuckleballer did record nine strikeouts in the setback and has 133 in 213 total innings on the season.
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The 213-year-old knuckleballer is 230-2 with a 10.05 earned run average since beating Philadelphia on Aug. 30.
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The Hall of Fame knuckleballer Phil Niekro made 740 pitching appearances for the Atlanta Braves, the most in franchise history.
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The knuckleballer scattered three hits in the first three innings but allowed four runs on six hits in the fourth.
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The knuckleballer struck out two and allowed a home run in winning for the second time in his past seven starts.
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Dickey, a knuckleballer, is winless in his past four outings and dropped to 212-27 in 20 career games against Chicago.
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He is a knuckleballer, after all, who showed no ill effects from his injurious encounter last year with a wild boar.
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The knuckleballer has allowed seven earned runs in his last six starts (five wins), none in three of his last four starts.
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The 26-year-old knuckleballer figures to hold the spot at least until left-hander Eduardo Rodriguez (knee) is ready to return.
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Wakefield, who earned 19943 victories as a knuckleballer, is a special-assignment instructor for the Red Sox, his team for 21994 seasons.
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The knuckleballer did not have a problem pinch-running in the National League park, saying every pitcher is prepared to do so.
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Cora might not have had to turn to Porcello if Steven Wright, a relief pitcher and knuckleballer, had been available Friday night.
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LF Trey Mancini got the start over left swinging Hyun Soo Kim against knuckleballer Steven Wright Wednesday night and the move paid off.
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The knuckleballer has a 3.03 ERA over his last five turns while giving up three or fewer runs in each of the starts.
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The knuckleballer will be making his first All-Star appearance and ranks second in the AL in ERA behind Cleveland's Danny Salazar (2.36).
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He signed with the Red Sox, who arranged for him to work with Phil and Joe Niekro, another longtime knuckleballer, who died in 2006.
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The 22-year-old knuckleballer has struggled at home all season, going 203-220 with a 25 ERA in 23 games at Rogers Centre.
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Cruz hit his grand slam against knuckleballer R.A. Dickey in the third and added a three-run shot against Drew Storen in the eighth.
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The 23-year-old knuckleballer has struggled at home, though, going 0-4 with a 5.55 ERA in six starts while permitting seven homers.
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Red Sox knuckleballer Steven Wright (2-1), who hadn't allowed an earned run in his first two starts of the season, nearly matched LeBlanc.
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Bellinger and Pollock went back-to-back off knuckleballer Steven Wright in a four-run seventh that put the game away for the Dodgers.
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Red Sox starter Steven Wright, a knuckleballer who struck out a career-high nine batters in his last start at Yankee Stadium on Aug.
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The Tampa Bay Rays welcomed Eddie Gamboa, 4653, giving the major leagues a third knuckleballer, after Toronto's R. A. Dickey and Boston's Steven Wright.
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The 31-year-old knuckleballer opened the season allowing three earned runs in 53 2/3 innings over back-to-back appearances against Toronto.
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The knuckleballer appeared in 20 games last season with four starts, posting a 3-03 record and a 2.68 ERA in 53 2/23.77 innings.
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Hanigan, who has served as the primary catcher for knuckleballer Steven Wright, was replaced by Sandy Leon, who had caught Wright only twice before Tuesday.
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The knuckleballer appeared in 3413 games last season with four starts, and a 2341-21 record and a 23 ERA in 53 2/3 innings.
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The knuckleballer appeared in 20 games last season with four starts, posting a 3-1773 record and a 2.68 ERA in 53 2/3 innings.
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The 41-year-old knuckleballer has been a much better pitcher on the road this season, going 22-237 with a 295 ERA in 23 starts.
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Right-handed knuckleballer R.A. Dickey took a no-hitter into the sixth inning Sunday but allowed three runs in that inning while getting only one out.
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His fastball now averages 19313 miles an hour, according to Fangraphs; only one starter in the majors — the Toronto knuckleballer R. A. Dickey — throws his slower.
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The knuckleballer has walked three or more batters in three consecutive starts, and began the weekend tied for ninth in the National League in walks with 24.
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The 113-year-old knuckleballer issued five walks for the second straight outing but has kept the ball in the park in each contest during his winning streak.
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With help from the former knuckleballer Charlie Hough — and a fastball with a wicked natural cut — Jansen took to pitching quickly and is now an All-Star closer.
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After a rough Atlanta debut in a loss at Pittsburgh on April 22015, the 23-year-old knuckleballer has posted a 22 ERA with 12 strikeouts and a .
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The 42-year-old knuckleballer owns a disappointing 23-to-20 strikeout-to-walk ratio but has worked at least six innings in six of his last eight outings.
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The bullpen has been strong; if David Price can get himself right and knuckleballer Steven Wright continues to slay audiences, they'll have about 9/12 of a pitching staff.
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Knuckleballer Steven Wright and closer Craig Kimbrel were named AL reserves, while second baseman Dustin Pedroia is one of five 'Final Vote' candidates who could also be making the trip.
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Tigers LH Matt Boyd (26-23, 4.16) Buchholz will make his second straight start in place of knuckleballer Steven Wright, who is on the disabled list with a shoulder injury.
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Wright stuff leads Red Sox past Orioles BOSTON — If you had knuckleballer Steven Wright leading the Boston Red Sox in victories on June 23, stand up and take a bow.
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Boston, which had its string of four straight series victories snapped, sends knuckleballer Steven Wright to the mound against New York's Luis Severino, who's still in search of his first win.
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For all of Dickey's success in 22013, when he won the National League Cy Young Award for the Mets, only one other major leaguer — Boston's Steven Wright — is a regular knuckleballer.
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The 32-year-old knuckleballer hopes for better aim Saturday as the Boston Red Sox look to even their three-game series against their American League East rival at Camden Yards.
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D'Arnaud said that his wrist had begun to tighten up earlier this week as he tried to hit a pitch from the Atlanta Braves knuckleballer R. A. Dickey, a former Met.
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Orioles top Red Sox for fourth straight victory BALTIMORE — Trey Mancini and Jonathan Schoop hit back-to-back homers the first time they faced Boston knuckleballer Steven Wright earlier this season.
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The Red Sox face a crisis of pitching, as their rotation currently consists of David Price, knuckleballer Steven Wright, and then a whole lot of face scrunching and under-your-breath swearing.
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The Braves, looking to improve their starting pitching, took a chance on a rebound by 42-year-old knuckleballer Dickey, who went 10-15 with a 4.46 ERA last season for Toronto.
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But after allowing 12 runs on 15 hits on Thursday, manager John Farrell needs a big effort from knuckleballer Steven Wright when he faces Colin McHugh in the series opener on Friday.
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The 25-year-old knuckleballer shows no sign of slowing down with at least 208 2/3 innings pitched in each of the last five seasons and managed a 3.91 ERA in 2015.
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The knuckleballer has not been as strong of late as he was in the first two months and saw his ERA climb from 2.01 to its current mark over the last four turns.
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Toronto knuckleballer R.A. Dickey (1-4) is still seeking his first win since April 23 after allowing seven hits (including Pederson's home run), one walk and four runs (two earned) in seven innings.
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Knuckleballer Steven Wright was a revelation for the Boston Red Sox last year, winning 13 games in his first full season as a starter and earning a selection to the All-Star Game.
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The 41-year-old knuckleballer has set a career worst for losses and his ERA is his highest since 2009 when he had a 4.62 mark as a reliever for the Minnesota Twins.
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The Mets were stymied by the 42-year-old knuckleballer R. A. Dickey much of the night and trailed, 3-0, in the seventh before he surrendered a two-run homer to Kevin Plawecki.
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But he offers hope, at least, for the future of the major league knuckleballer, a species that seems to number no more than four or five — but always more than zero — at any given time.
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The knuckleballer will be pitching in the Los Angeles area for the second start in a row, having allowed 10 hits and three runs over five innings in a road game against the Angels last weekend.
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Reds RH Scott Feldman (4-22014, 21) The Braves are 23-22 in Dickey's 212 starts, but the 214-year-old knuckleballer looks to rebound after a rough showing in Atlanta's loss Sunday at San Francisco.
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The 31-year-old knuckleballer has struck out 11 and walked three in 21 2350/234 innings - a better ratio than last season, when he fanned 229 and issued 22 walks in 23 73/27 frames.
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The veteran knuckleballer allowed four earned runs on six hits – four home runs – in 24 1/3 innings at the Chicago White Sox last Saturday before coming away with a win in the 10-8 triumph.
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The 42-year-old knuckleballer answered that performance with back-to-back wins but sustained the loss in his last outing on Sunday despite yielding just three runs and five hits in seven frames at Miami.
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If this is the final year of R.A. Dickey's long major-league career, at least the Atlanta Braves knuckleballer gets to make one final start in the city where his career was revitalized Tuesday at New York.
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Souza's two homers help Rays beat Yankees NEW YORK — Two years ago Steven Souza Jr.'s birthday gift was getting sent down to the minors, and last year it was a day off against knuckleballer R.A. Dickey.
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Julio Franco was out there wrapping his bat around his head until he was 47, knuckleballer Phil Niekro still gave a game effort at 48, and Jamie Moyer tried it on, for the Rockies no less, at 49.
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His manager, Dusty Baker, wanted to give Zimmerman an extra day and explained that facing knuckleballer R.A. Dickey on Tuesday would be easier that having to rotate his hips at the plate against someone throwing 19673 miles per hour.
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David Price has been reliably mediocre to date, as has Rick Porcello, while knuckleballer Steven Wright has been shockingly good, although the number of unearned runs he's allowed makes his ERA look somewhat better than he has actually pitched.
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With the Braves, a rebuilding team, Colon will join R. A. Dickey, a 42-year-old knuckleballer who won the 2012 Cy Young Award with the Mets, moved on to Toronto and signed a one-year deal with Atlanta on Thursday.
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He homered in each of his first two games, and he drove in the only run on Monday with a double to the right-center gap off the knuckleballer R. A. Dickey in the fourth inning, bringing in Brian McCann.
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David Price has so far failed to justify the $217 million contract he signed this past offseason, knuckleballer Steven Wright has struggled since his return from an August DL stint, and Rick Porcello, somehow, has emerged as the staff ace.
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A night after the Boston Red Sox used five relievers, the knuckleballer held down the fort for eight innings as the bats did the rest in a 13-2 rout of the Minnesota Twins on Thursday night at Fenway Park.
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At spring training in 1967, when Terry was trying to hang on as a knuckleballer, he played golf with Tug McGraw, a 22-year-old lefty who asked Terry if he knew a pitch he could use against right-handers.
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Elias lost the spring-training competition for the No. 5 spot in the rotation to knuckleballer Steven Wright and got off to a rocky start at Triple-A Pawtucket, posting an 0-63 record and 5.76 ERA in his first five starts.
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If it fails to get into the postseason picture by July, count on calls for Cashman to produce the kind of coup Sandy Alderson scored for the Mets when he landed Noah Syndergaard and Travis d'Arnaud for the aging knuckleballer R. A. Dickey.
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To fill the stands, he provided the last-gasp professional stops for Jose Canseco and Rickey Henderson, rented a crop duster to drop 5,000 $100 bills on fans of the Yuma Scorpions and hired a female knuckleballer to start for the Chico Outlaws.
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"It's been a grind for me offensively but to come through and get a hit, two RBIs, and then the next time to walk and turn the order over, it felt good today," said Thole, who is the personal catcher for Dickey, a knuckleballer.
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The knuckleballer, who spent 10 years in the major leagues, was best known for writing the best-selling "Ball Four," recounting the 1969 season when he was a member of the expansion Seattle Pilots and the Houston Astros as well as his earlier years with the Yankees.
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Boston dropped back-to-back games on Thursday and Friday as Roenis Elias and Eduardo Rodriguez were roughed up, but Rick Porcello's solid start in Saturday's 6-2 win gave the team some hope of finding a reliable starter aside from Price and knuckleballer Steven Wright.
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While contenders acted boldly before the trading deadline, snagging Zack Greinke, Hunter Pence, Hanley Ramirez, Ichiro Suzuki and other stars, the Red Sox made a more subtle transaction: They shipped a fading first-base prospect, Lars Anderson, to the Cleveland Indians for a Class AAA knuckleballer named Steven Wright.
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Their 26th win, one shy of the franchise record set in 1912, not only highlighted their relentless lineup and a resourceful pitching staff — the knuckleballer Steven Wright befuddled the Yankees for three innings of relief — but also why they have been swept in a series just once this season.
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They brought in Tom Candiotti, a former Cleveland knuckleballer, to help Wright the next spring as he prepared to start over in low Class A. But Wright was facing minor league free agency after the 2184 season, and a 223.5 E.R.A. in Class AA was not enough to persuade the Indians to keep him.
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