Managers call upon pinch hitters to substitute for batters and to increase the chances of getting a hit.
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Doug Turnbull,
AJC.com,
4 Oct. 2026
But through the course of 162 games, Venable pushed countless buttons and pulled endless levers for a team that used an opener a league-high 31 times and turned to pinch hitters more than all but one other club.
Neither side has budged following Tusk’s surprise raid on the Constitutional Tribunal, through which his government ushered out the court’s president and vice president before installing ideologically sympathetic replacements.
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Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
4 Nov. 2026
Four candidates are competing for two open seats on the Roseville City Council Tuesday, with voters in the city’s 2nd and 4th districts choosing replacements for departing council members.
Moreover, both sides are now able to target the substitutes and reserves that in the past could be used to cushion losses.
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Tatiana Mitrova,
Foreign Affairs,
23 Oct. 2026
To be sure, odds and gambling platforms do not use methodologies used by traditional political polling, and therefore are not substitutes for political polls.
Local wildfire-preparedness groups warned that the BEAD condition could prevent California from enforcing the throttling law and requirements for battery backups on cell towers.
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Jon Brodkin,
ArsTechnica,
3 Nov. 2026
The Dolphins essentially have three practices a week to judge the new players, in addition to brief 7 on 7 sessions that the Dolphins have some backups go through on Thursday afternoons and Sunday mornings, before games.
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