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After an epic, stock of two pitchers rises

By Mike Hume
ESPN Insider

Thursday, June 11, 2009

It was a truly amazing story -- the rare sort with no villains, only heroes. The kind that left Cooperstown clamoring for mementos. And now its protagonists have a happy ending, if only for the short term. By early afternoon of the second day of Major League Baseball's amateur draft, both Boston College's Mike Belfiore and Texas' Austin Wood, the relievers who combined for 298 pitches in the epic, 25-inning standoff in the NCAA regionals May 30, had been snatched up by the Arizona Diamondba ...

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