Word: baseman
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Carter and Keith Hernandez saw their old selves this season, or at least the last month of it, in the Met apprentice Gregg Jefferies. "He reminds me of me when I was young," sighs first baseman Hernandez, 34. "If he goes one game without a hit, he wants to stick his head in the oven." Scampering up from the minors during the last days of August, wide-eyed, 21 and charitably listed at 5 ft. 10 in., Jefferies showed the team that thought it had everything what had been missing for a while: boyishness and wonder. As Steve...
Thirdbaseman Carney Lansford led off the inning with a single up the middle and on a hit-and-run, second-baseman Tony Phillips grounded a ball towards the hole vacated by Dodger shortstop Alfredo Griffin, who was covering second base. Griffin was forced to backtrack to the ball and Phillips beat out the play for an infield...
McGwire, just 1-for-13 in the Series, swung at a first-pitch fastball and popped it straight up to first baseman Tracy Woodson. Howell finished for a save in the same ballpark where fans constantly booed him last year when he pitched...
...record in the Olympic tournament, losing only to Canada after they had already made it into the medal round. Throughout the Seoul competition, the U.S. had been spurred on by the pitching of Abbott and Ben McDonald and the hot bats of outfielder Ted Wood and first baseman Tino ; Martinez. A Seattle Mariners draft choice, Martinez sealed the final victory with two home runs and four RBIs. Introduced to the Games as a demonstration sport in 1904 and reintroduced in 1984, baseball will at long last become a full-fledged Olympic event in Barcelona...
Oakland's first hit wasn't much to brag about. Luis Polonia opened the fourth with a dribbler to the right side of the mound that Clemens fielded cleanly but then threw wide of first baseman Todd Benzinger. Polonia was credited with a single and was given second on Clemens' error...