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Slumps humbling even the best of players

By Tim Kurkjian
ESPN The Magazine

Wednesday, May 2, 2007

On a lonely night in a hotel room in Baltimore in April, Royals DH Mike Sweeney, a career .300 hitter, paced the floor wondering when he was going to find his swing. "I was laying in bed at 3:30 in the morning worrying about hitting," he said. "It was pretty bad." It has been that kind of season for many good hitters and pitchers. Just over a month into the season, the Yankees' Mariano Rivera, the greatest closer in history, had fewer saves than Joakim Soria. Cubs left fielder Alfonso Soriano, ...

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