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He has an 0.47 ERA in four career World Series appearances and the steely nerve to take the mound on one day’s rest for the last three outs of this fall’s clinching Game 5.

Herbert was always the one Manley wanted on the mound at the end of a game because of his competitive grit.

Jurado waved at a mound of mementos around her dining room table gifted by volunteers and voters — scrapbooks, posters, artwork, photo collages — mixed in among thank-you cards that need to be mailed out.

A young man climbed on to the mound of rubble.

He said Valenzuela was known and honored for the person that he was on the mound, but also for so much more.