All Brent Rooker knew was that it wasn't going to be another slider. He'd already been beaten with that pitch during two at-bats and his mind was made up.
If Wu Sheng-feng, who had already struck out Rooker twice, was going to beat him again, the Taiwanese hurler was going to have to throw something else.
In the seventh inning, the only person who got the best of a determined Rooker was whoever decided to put a roof on Tokyo Dome.
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