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Article: The Chicago Tribune Phil Rogers Baseball column: Playing numbers.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- June 24, 2007
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Byline: Phil Rogers
Jun. 24--Baseball isn't played with mulligans. If it were, Ozzie Guillen surely would have called for a pitchout on that 0-1 offering to Ryan Theriot in the ninth inning Saturday.
If not a pitchout, the next best option for the White Sox would have been one of those snappy curveballs from Bobby Jenks. That was the last pitch Theriot wanted to have to try to bunt with Angel Pagan speeding down from third base, unprotected.
But Theriot got a fastball and did his job, bunting it back to Jenks for a perfectly executed suicide squeeze. It gave the Cubs a well-played 2-1 victory in fitting fashion.
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