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    Pitch By Pitch In Baseball

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    Pitch by pitch: an analysis of pitch counts in the MLB playoffs Introduction As is the case in most sports, playoffs are special. Not only is the atmosphere more intense, but the strategy changes. In baseball, a strategy that must be handled correctly is when to remove a starting pitcher from the game. As mentioned before, playoffs are different. The consequences for ill-timed decisions are magnified. A managerial error in the postseason is not as evident as it would be in the regular season. Leave a pitcher on the mound for too long and things can go south quickly; his stamina runs out, affecting future games, or worse: his long-term health is put at risk. Failure to remove the pitcher may also cause hitters to become more comfortable, or…

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    the first play, ‘The Pretentious Young Ladies’, a stunning performance by P.M. Williams in the role of ‘La Grange’ overshadowed quite wonderful acts of others. The character’s charming behavior had me believe in his quest to romanticize with one of the pretentious young ladies in the play. The projection of his voice was good enough for the audience, but it is in his vocal variety and his articulation, that he shines. Every words were uttered by him quite clearly, and his variations in pitch of…

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    it, beside them. By showing my students that I struggle to get started, or get stuck, or even make spelling or grammar mistakes when I am drafting a paper (gasp), it puts the teacher on a more even playing field with the students, making them feel more comfortable, that taking risks in my classroom is expected. Sharing something one has written can put even the most confident adults in a state of vulnerability. I make sure that I always do what I am asking my students to do, putting me in the…

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    stepped in for a challenge, winning the ball, and clashing knees with my opponent. My knee began to swell and I thought it was just a typical bruise, no big deal. The game continued and I continued to push myself for the team. Moments later, it was my turn to step up for a free kick. As I planted my left leg into the turf, my quad and patellar tendon worked together and pulled in opposite directions, popping my kneecap horizontally right down the middle. I laid there for what seemed like…

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     Musical Notes Can Count Jerri Pineda Abstract— The development of mathematics involves early connections with music and the basic physics of sound. Mathematics is present in the natural occurrence of the ratios and intervals found in music and modern tuning systems. As people age, their hearing becomes dull and require change in the music ratio and interval to hear the same tune as when young. In like manner, the interval increases until a perfect pitch is heard. In this paper we will examine…

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    Pipe Organ Research Paper

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    As a young child, I can recall my grandparents taking me to a local ice cream parlor in Columbus, Indiana called Zaharakos. The ice cream parlor is most famous for it’s old fashioned ice cream and it’s pipe organ. While you were eating ice cream, you could sit and listen to the pipe organ play in the background on a hot, summer day. In the reading about the pipe organ, it mentions that one of the different ways it makes different sounds is through flue or reed pipes. My question would be, what…

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    To begin the Constant Stimuli experiment, the lab recruited three subjects including two undergraduate students from the UCI Psychology department subject pool and the author, to finish the tests. All subjects were randomly distributed for gender but most of them were aged from 19 to 21. The subjects, included the author, can be considered naïve because none of them had done similar experiments before. All subjects were informed by the researcher about the purpose of the experiment and they held…

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    Have you ever wondered what instruments the Greeks had? Well, here is three questions you may ask. How much is the floyera like the flute today? How were the Karamouzis made? And, What is the Daouli? The floyera is a recorder like instrument. Unlike the flute you blow out of the top like a recorder, but it still has all the keys a flute. Yes this is just a fun fact, but the floyera in Greece is also a pastry. This is because it is shaped as the instrument. The main reason why the flute is the…

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    The two types of thresholds used in this experiment are absolute and difference. What is an absolute and difference threshold? Well an absolute threshold is known as “the lowest amount of stimulus a person can detect”(Essentials of Psychology, 2015, p.G-1). . This is the point at which our senses are able to detect something, for example the softest sound you can hear. The difference threshold is known as the “minimal difference in the magnitude of energy needed for people to detect a…

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    Fastball Pitch

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    This is determined by what their best pitch is or how the sequence their pitches to get hitters out. There are three main types of pitches in baseball; the fastball, the curveball, and the change-up. Knowing how pitchers use the pitches or knowing pitchers "out pitch," the pitch they use to get hitters out, can help one determine if a pitcher is an overpowering or off-speed pitcher. The Fastball According to writers for Newsday, the average fastball in the Major Leagues has been constant at 91…

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