But it is a hard pitch to sell with a firm that is publicly unrepentant about its past.

However, Wainwright never had any sting on hard pitches.

His hardest pitch was the third one he threw, a 94-m.p.h. fastball to Green.

On a 3-2 count, though, Henderson swung at a high and hard pitch to end the inning.

He finished the last hard pitch in darkness.

And he climbs the hardest pitches he can find, too.

During one game, the opposing pitcher threw a hard pitch into the face of the batter.

The weather on the day was dry and the hard pitch suited the visitors.

He felt a little vertiginous, as if climbing a hard pitch or maybe the Chrysler Building up the street.

Zimmerman had stiffened as he saw the high hard pitch coming.