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Article: MAKING THE PITCH: SNELL DOMINATES PIRATES STARTER GOES EIGHT SOLID INNINGS.(Sports)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- June 3, 2007
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Byline: TONY JACKSON
Staff Writer
PITTSBURGH -- Of all the pitches Ian Snell threw at the Dodgers on Saturday night, all the first-pitch fastballs for strikes, all the diving curveballs and all the big out pitches he seemed to come up with at so many crucial junctures, the Pittsburgh right-hander's best delivery of the evening might have come in the Pirates' dugout.
That was where, during the bottom of the seventh inning, he talked pitching coach Jim Colborn, who raised the possibility of lifting him, into letting him go one more inning.
"I told him no way," Snell said. "I was throwing as good as I had all year, and I wanted to stay in ...