"Bases loaded and our cleanup batter coming to the plate."

When Charlie Hayes, who had a homer among his three hits, is the cleanup batter, the team is not exactly fearsome.

In many ways, the Japanese news media treat him differently, protecting his straight-arrow persona and exalted standing as the Giants' cleanup batter.

He is a reliable cleanup batter who hit 24 homers and drove in 115 runs while playing all 162 games last year.

He is the cleanup batter, the man Boston wants teams to fear as much as they do Ortiz.

The couscous, I thought, was my cleanup batter, a sure winner.

Winfield, the cleanup batter, had sacrificed only once this year, against Milwaukee om Aug. 30.

Their cleanup batter popped up to the catcher.

Hardly anything from their switch-hitting cleanup batter.

"You're gonna let them throw at my cleanup batter?"