Locally, of course, such idiomatic use is less common than where English is the mother tongue and baseball is the great pastime.
ISRAEL PITCHER Benjamin Wanger pitched a gutsy seventh inning yesterday and struck out the side in the eighth as the blue-and-white beat Great Britain 7-4 to improve its record to a perfect 4-0 at the European Baseball Championship in Germany. (photo credit: MARGO SUGARMAN)ByBARRY NEWMAN