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Three Strikes: History in the unmaking edition

By Jayson Stark

Thursday, October 1, 2009

When history is made in baseball, half the planet is there to chronicle it. But when history is unmade, well, apparently that's Three Strikes' niche. So on with this blog … STRIKE ONE -- TAKE THE OVER DEPT. Little did Pedro Martinez know that when he took the mound in Philadelphia on Wednesday, there was much, much more than the Phillies' NL East clincher riding on it. Martinez The fate of all starting pitchers in the '00s was riding on it. Huh? How's that? Well, as loyal reader ...

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