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The Atlanta Braves Take Care of Business Against Nats

Found August 12, 2009 on Tomahawk Take:
PLAYERS: Andre Ethier
TEAMS: Atlanta Braves,  Los Angeles Dodgers

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When home plate umpire Eric Cooper, historically a pitcher sympathizer, declared that his arm pump was not intended to signal a strike to Andre Ethier, but rather ball four, he may as well have been pulling the string on the death bell to the Atlanta Braves’ season.  You could feel the wind from the collective [...]
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