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Tyler Kepner Keeps It Close to the Plate

At a summer contest between the Yankees and the Mets, Kepner, The Times’s national baseball columnist, shared his approach to reporting and his love of the game that transcends statistics.

A notebook kept by Tyler Kepner, Times baseball columnist, shows starting pitchers’ game logs.

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At 4:14 p.m. on a Monday in August, fans have not yet gathered inside Yankee Stadium. It is less than three hours before the first pitch is thrown between the Yankees and the Mets.