Betts: BMOC - Slater’s success all about adjustments

“Making adjustments is nothing new to Missouri State right-handed pitcher Owen Slater.

Pitching for the Ontario Blue Jays and Junior National Team in high school put him in positions that forced him to grow as a player.

But no adjustment has been as big as the one he had to make during the transition to college baseball.

“On the field, the speed of the game, the level of preparation and the expectations were all higher than anything I’d experienced before,” Slater said.”

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Whicker: Deaths of Mazeroski, Face reminder of Pirates’ rich history, Skenes, Griffin offer hope for return to glory

“There is still October baseball in Pittsburgh. It usually lasts one day.

On Oct. 13, a troupe of Pirate fans, of various ages, gather at the site of Forbes Field and call up the radio broadcast of World Series Game 7, 1960, with Chuck Thompson and Jim Quinlan at the microphone. They observe the seventh inning stretch. They visualize the desperate pitchers of the Pirates and Yankees, trying to get somebody, anybody out. At the end, Bill Mazeroski hits the home run, like he always does, and everybody goes home happy. The rest of the month is devoted to watching others play. The Pirates themselves haven’t lost a World Series game since 1979. “

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