Word: ace
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Angeles will try to halt the Yankee express with veteran Don Suton in Tuesday night's sixth game. New York will use caatfish Hunter, saving ace Ron Guidry for a poossible seventh game--hoping one isn't needed. Sutton was the third-game loser and Hunter was charged with the loss in Game...
...indeed it was a photo finish. The Sox seemingly had the contest and the pennant wrapped up after touching Yankee ace Ron Guidry for two runs in the first five innings--one on a towering Yaz homer in the second, the other on a Jim Rice single...
Reggie Jackson, who hit the home run that ended the Red Sox' season on Monday, iced the victory with a three-run blast to right-center field off Royal relief ace Al Hrabosky in the eighth...
Herzog then brought in Hrabosky, "the Mad Hungarian," who had been the ace in the K.C. bullpen since being obtained from St. Louis at the start of the season in a trade for last year's Yankee victim, Mark Littell...
...sixth, the Sox gave their starter the requisite insurance run that any shutout ace must have. Shortstop Rick Burlesonstroked a 1-2 fastball past Yankee third baseman Graig Nettles for a leadoff double, and he came home--following a Jerry Remy sacrifice--on MVP shoo-in Jim Rice's single to center...