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After 13 major-league seasons, stints with eight different teams and a series of injuries that threatened to destroy his career, Rich Hill understands the cruelness of baseball better than most. He once called himself “a role model for failure”—a journeyman who rose from the scrap heap of the industry to emerge as a star in his mid-30’s.
So perhaps that experience prepared Hill to handle the events of Wednesday night, when he pitched the game of his life and came away with nothing to show for it. Hill threw nine no-hit…