Word: balle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After a visit from manager Dick Williams, Culp delivered a meatball to Don Wert who knocked it sharply to right field. Rookie right fielder Joe LaHoud bobbled the ball, two runs scored and the flag sagged...
...Kaline lined to Carl Yastrzemski who, naturally, caught the ball and threw crisply to third base in a vain attempt to double off McAuliffe. It was a good throw, but Dalton Jones couldn't find the handle, and the ball skittered away, letting McAuliffe score. Before the horrible inning was over, Willie Horton got a wind-blown double to center, Freehan another scratch single both off the hapless Culp--and Oyler a run-scoring single off reliever Lee Stange...
...second half began with freshman Hal Clark's first scoring try, which Daly converted into a five point play, and John Fouts finally finished the scoring for the day when he ran the ball over from the 15 yard line on an assist by Sione...
...eighth inning of yesterday's humiliation at Fenway Park, Tiger shortstop Ray Oyler struck in vain at a Sparky Lyle slant. It was his third such failure, so Sox catcher Elston Howard whipped the ball in the general direction of Dalton Jones and third base, as custom dictates. Unfortunately, Jones was busy in the short-stop hole, retrieving the bat which had flown from the fanning Oyler's hands. Howard's throw flew unchallenged into Carl Yastrzemski's pasture where it died on the soggy grass. Yaz started in, stopped, wagged his head both in shame and disgust, and elected...
...first the symbolic reality of the pennant was enough for the 30,000 faithful. The appropriate dignataries said the appropriate things, Commissioner Eckert made some awards to the most fulfilled of the Red Sox dreamers, a Vietnam veteran threw out the first ball to Howard, who caught...