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Article: Nats' Lannan Gets It
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- May 19, 2008
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John Lannan says he has never thrown hard, not in high school or
at Siena College, much less in the major leagues. So, he's always
had to hit the mitt, throw it in a teacup, as they say, change
speeds and battle. Without poise, he knows he'd be dead. Baseball
has never been easy, so he's never learned how to act, or think,
like a hot shot.
But something about Lannan makes people get in his corner and get
in your face if you dismiss him as a soft tosser, a pitcher that's
strictly make-do until somebody better comes along. That "something"
is an afternoon like Sunday at Orioles Park when he takes a two-hit
shutout into the eighth inning and beats Baltimore's Jeremy Guthrie,
2-1.
For the fifth ...
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