Word: baseman
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...Phillies, who had last won a World Series game in 1915, when Babe Ruth was a pitcher and occasional pinch hitter for the victorious Boston Red Sox, suddenly started to change their opinions of Manager Green. First Baseman Pete Rose reflected on the change in a team he had once routinely cuffed as a Cincinnati Red: "They just never had any discipline around here, and he brought some. Dallas talks loud and he likes to chew people out. He's done a hell of a job, and he should be named manager of the year...
...hitting Third Baseman George Brett (.390 for the season), who had undergone minor surgery for hemorrhoids on the off-day between games, started the homecoming with a towering first-inning home run. But the Phillies tied the game their next turn at bat. Twice again the Royals scratched out a one-run lead; twice again Philadelphia responded in kind. For only the 40th time in 453 World Series games, play went into extra innings. With a full house of noisy fans on their feet for the duration of the tenth inning, the Royals pushed across the winning run at last...
Hatcher is a third baseman-outfielder in the Dodger organization. He split the year between Los Angeles and the club's AAA affiliate in Albuquerque, where he knocked home 32 runs in 34 games while swatting .343. His fielding at third base isn't spectacular, but it's solid. His hustle and timely hitting are spectacular...
...third inning, a walk to Bob Boone, an error charged to KC second baseman Frank White, and a perfectly executed bunt by Rose loaded the bases for Schmidt, who then doubled in the first two runs of the game...
Schmidt, who had smashed a towering two-run homer in the fourth, opened the ninth with a shot that glanced off third baseman George Brett's glove for a single...