Word: ace
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...Angeles Dodgers came alive behind rookie pitching ace Fernando Valenzuela to beat the New York Yankees 5-4 last night before an appreciative hometown crowd, cutting the Yankees' World Series lead to two games...
...near freezing temperatures didn't seem to faze the Dodgers, least of all rookie ace Fernando Valenzuela, who held Montreal to three hits in eight and two-third innings and drove in a run on a groundout. Valenzuela fanned six Expos with an accurate screwball and allowed no unintentional walks until the ninth...
...other pro sports action, rain in Montreal postponed the fifth and deciding game of the National League playoffs. The Dogers send ace rookie Fernando Valenzuela to the mound to face the Expos' Ray Burris today. The rainout faces today's winner to travel to New York to face the Yankees tomorrow night without the benefit of a previously scheduled travel date...
President Bok this week began a year-long term as chairman of the board of directors of the American Council on Education (ACE) and as such will become "a leading spokesman for higher education," according to the council's director of public relations. Bok said that as chairman of the council--America's largest coalition of colleges, universities and other higher-education groups--he plans to meet regularly with politicians and federal administrators in an effort to "try and help articulate a set of responsible positions towards the Reagan administration...
Under the lights in New York, Graig Nettles's bases-clearing double in the first inning was all the Yankees needed. Starting pitcher Tommy John and, as usual, relief ace Rich Gossage combined to hold the A's to one run on just six hits...