Word: aparicio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Detroit starter Woodie Fryman allowed another run on a double by Luis Aparicio and a single by Yastrzemski in the fifth. Fryman then gave way to reliever Tom Timmerman, who was nicked for a run on Cepeda's eighth-inning single and Yastrzemski's infield hit in the ninth...
...Lute Aparicio has played more baseball games at shortstop than any other human being extant or otherwise. The number of steps he has run on a major league diamond is beyond compilation, if not beyond belief. On Monday night in Detroit he took the step that will be remembered more than any of the other countless millions for after two decades of brilliant fielding, masterful base running and nearly 2,500 career hits. Lattle Luts, the Veaezuelan wonder, fell down...
...curve that hung over the dish for the reborn Carl Yastrzemski. Yaz placed the ball over the dish for the outstretched arm of Mickey Stanley in the cavernous Detroit center field. Harper crossed the plate with the tying run as Yaz steamed into third base. But the coordination of Aparicio had deserted him in this one crucial moment. Little Luis fell down, crawled back to third base with the go-ahead run, to greet the ecstatic, then horrified, yastrzemski. The pennant was AI Kaline's, as he would prove the next...
...this kind of play that makes baseball the game it is, love it or leave it. The fabulous "if only's which pepper baseball lore have seen another swell their ranks. Aparicio's trip will go down with Richardson's catch of McCovey's drive in 1962, with Ralph Terry's Meatball to Mazeroski in 1960, even with the Bobby Thompson shot heard round the world...
...spring, reports will start to trickle back to Boston from Winter Haven; stories of Yaz, and Rico, and Reggie, and some rookie who won't make it. But until then, these who live this game again and again will wonder: "If only Aparicio hadn't fallen down...