<|begin_of_text|><|begin_of_text|><|begin_of_text|>CHICAGO: When a team is losing, its closer can be the forgotten man.
But he can�t forget how to save a game. If he did, he wouldn�t be the closer for long. So Chris Perez entered to pitch<wm> against the Cleveland Indians at Progressive Field in 2011.

Then a lot of the time for him was pitching into a wall behind second and third base. You would give the opposing team free passes on two and four, two-binning his pitches and allowing 70 feet or more from first on ground balls, then quickly calling a double to the bases, and to add insult to injury by calling a strike on two pitches that neither are good to look at.


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