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Successful surgery has been performed on Boston Red Sox first baseman Bill Buckner, pitcher Jeff Sellers and first-base coach Walt Hriniak, the club said Thursday...
...Game 6, they were one out away from winningit all, leading 5-3 with two outs in the 10thinning. But the Mets came back to score three runson three straight hits, a wild pitch and an errorby first baseman Bill Buckner...
...when asked how with one swing left in the season he managed to block out a mortal fear of failure. "We fail most of the time." Though the Angels tied the game in the bottom of the ninth and still had the bases loaded with only one out, Third Baseman Doug DeCinces and then Grich faltered in the clutch. After a couple of innings of outfielders' banging walls like cymbals clashing, Henderson's sacrifice fly finally and fittingly won. "I got no place to sleep tonight," Mauch said numbly. "I bet my house that DeCinces would get that...
...little enough nobility left for the loser of the World Series, but this may be the oddest year, where the playoff victims are actually mourned and remembered. Because of a mysterious leg infection, possibly from a spider bite, the Angels were deprived of their best player, Rookie First Baseman Wally Joyner, for the three straight losses. Confounded only by the ump in a nine-inning two-hitter, Nolan Ryan struck out twelve Mets not just with an aching elbow but for four innings on a sprained ankle. "A lot goes into getting you this far," Ryan said, "and so little...
...next public quarrel may be over who is the team's MVP -- regal First Baseman Keith Hernandez or political Catcher Gary Carter -- and whether whoever it is should automatically be the choice of the league. "We know they're good," sighs Cardinal Shortstop Ozzie Smith, "but they act like they have to remind everyone all the time." Carter, Gooden, Hernandez, Darling, Outfielder Darryl Strawberry and Manager Davey Johnson all have memoirs out or on the way. But only now are they coming to their first critical series of the year...