Kevin Cash will make the first playoff start of his career tonight, and his nerves will pale compared with the first time he crouched behind home plate and saw Tim Wakefield standing on the mound. That sight, through a catcher's mask, can look like something out of a Hitchcock movie. (Full article: 631 words)

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