My job was to get to first base so we could try and score a run.

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The pure Bella doesn't even get to first base.

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To begin with, though, the industry needs to get past first base by proving there is a market for such devices.

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He wants to see his first baseman get on base however possible, Girardi said, and he believes Teixeira has the discipline to keep his power swing intact despite poking balls the other way from time to time.

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He set the first seven batters down in order, and the Mets didn't get anyone to third base until the sixth inning, when Justin Turner singled with Wright on first and one out.

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He got 18 groundball outs, and the Orioles didn't get a runner past first base until Nick Markakis took second on Adam Jones' bouncer to third in the ninth.

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On the HP, Windows 8 proved so buggy at first that I couldn't even get back to the Start Screen home base for the system after opening apps and the computer froze up frequently.

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