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Match the hitter with at-bat music

By Jim Wilkie
ESPN.com

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Besides featuring all Seattle Mariners in this week's Batter's Hit Box at-bat music matching game, we got a pitcher's perspective on the music batters choose when they come up to the plate. Mariners lefty Ryan Rowland-Smith is a big music fan, and he said occasionally some songs don't quite match a batter's reputation or personality. "Sometimes [the music is] just overdone," Rowland-Smith said. "Some of the guys are trying to be tough guys and have an edgy kind of song. … ...

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