Baseball

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Across
  1. 1. A fastball that is pitched diagonally
  2. 6. Walked out to Metallica’s “Enter Sandman”
  3. 12. MLB pitcher who had a surgery named after him
  4. 13. Cheated their way to a World Series title in 2017
  5. 14. A now widely abandoned pitch
  6. 16. 3 time Cy Young winner during the 2010s
  7. 19. The NPB championship series
  8. 23. Original name of the San Francisco Giants
  9. 24. Who the Los Angeles Dodgers were named after
  10. 25. A 4-run home run
  11. 26. World oldest actively used major league level ballpark
  12. 27. Walked out to Ozzy Osbourne’s “Crazy Train”
  13. 28. earliest pitch type
  14. 30. Newest NPB ballpark
  15. 31. World’s biggest Yankees fan
Down
  1. 2. Japanese superstar who paved way for future Japanese MLB all-stars
  2. 3. 1969 New York Mets team moniker
  3. 4. Only pitcher to blow up a bird
  4. 5. Your favorite player’s favorite player
  5. 7. 1919 Chicago White Sox scandal name
  6. 8. Slowest pitch type
  7. 9. Canada’s first MLB team
  8. 10. Oldest NPB ballpark
  9. 11. pitch type notoriously hard to hit
  10. 15. An illegal bat type that is lighter and involves drilling a hole
  11. 16. A fastball that is pitched by placing the index and middle fingers closer together on one side of the ball
  12. 17. The Left Arm of God
  13. 18. Second oldest MLB ballpark
  14. 20. A baseball strategy that focuses on OBP over SLG
  15. 21. Steroid user on the San Francisco Giants who cheated his way to breaking the MLB home run record
  16. 22. Two-way phenom
  17. 29. World’s largest ballpark