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Article: ANOTHER LOWE POINT RIGHT-HANDER BATTERED AS ARIZONA'S BATISTA DOMINATES DODGERS ARIZONA 8, DODGERS 0.(Sports)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- July 20, 2006
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Byline: TONY JACKSON Staff Writer
PHOENIX -- The Dodgers have shown a maddening inability this season to hit good pitchers. On Wednesday night, they showed a maddening inability to hit a mediocre one.
And it wasn't the first time.
Miguel Batista is a twice-published author and poet, a philanthropist and the man who donated the money used to construct the first baseball field on Native American tribal land in Arizona. In his spare time, he also works as a big-league pitcher, a savvy, veteran right-hander who never has been an All-Star and never won a dozen games in a season but has been good enough that he still is in the majors more than a ...