Word: als
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...line shot into the rightfield bleachers in the first inning was his fifth homer in just 26 at-bats against Boston starter Bruce Hurst, a two-time loser in the playoffs. His homer also tied the AL playoffs record set by Kansas City's George Brett...
...success story was painfully familiar Sunday to the Boston Red Sox. The 4-1 victory was Oakland's fourth straight in the best-of-seven AL playoffs and the 10th home win in a row over Boston...
Mark McGwire, one of five A's with five or more hits in the series, drove in Canseco with an eighthinning single as the A's added two insurance runs. Don Baylor, playing for a third straight different team AL pennant winner, followed with a sacrifice fly and a weary Eckersley replaced Rick Honeycutt in the ninth to get his record-setting fourth series save...
...record. Next day, in the semi- final, she set a new world record of 21.56; less than two hours later, she obliterated it in the final with a time of 21.34 seconds. When she saw her time, Florence kneeled on the track in ecstasy. Then her husband and coach Al Joyner ran onto the field, took her in his arms and joyfully twirled her around. "Getting down in the starting blocks and hearing the cheers gave me a lot of energy," she said later. "I gave it all I had going home." But Flo- Jo's feats were not over...
...Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in the Gaza Strip last week, wounded Palestinian protesters jammed the emergency room. After unsuccessful surgery, Abdulatif, 26, fingered the yellowing gauze wrapped around his left leg. Still lodged deep in his left thigh was a plastic bullet, Israel's latest ammunition against the ten-month-old intifadeh (uprising) by Palestinians in the occupied territories. Abdulatif pulled aside the bandage to reveal a reddish silver dollar-size hole in his flesh. Explained a nurse: "There is no difference between plastic and real bullets. They both enter the body and destroy...