By Bill Begley
This is how you take control of a division race:
1. Face the team chasing you.
2. Crush that team with a series sweep that sends any momentum the upstarts might have had swirling counter-clockwise toward salary-dumping oblivion.
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By Chuck Miller
With so much emphasis over the past few seasons on pitch counts, not much has been said on which batters force the issue. Which batters make pitchers earn their keep? The following top-five list points to National Leaguers leading the charge:
Most PA, 10+ Pitches, 2009
(through games of 6/1/09)
Player, Team
10+
P/PA
Andre Ethier, LAD
7
4.32
David Eckstein, SD
5
4.00
Carl [...]
