WASHINGTON, June 8 (Reuters) - Stephen Strasburg lived up to his billing in a much-anticipated dominating fellowship debut with the Washington Nationals on Tuesday as the 2009 high point compose preference struck out 14 batters to inform his tandem to a 5-2 victory. In one of the most talked about Major League Baseball debuts in years, the 21-year-old right-hander retired nine of the head 10 Pittsburgh batters he faced in countenance of a set room-only jam at Nationals Park. Strasburg, who mixes a high-velocity fastball with merit off-speed pitches, allowed just four hits and did not promenade a Pittsburgh batter. He gave up a two-run domicile take care of to Delwyn Young in the fourth inning that put the Pirates in front 2-1 before Washington answered in the sixth with two territory runs that put them before for good.
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