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Breese looked good in the first half, leaping high on four occasions to either bat away or snare enemy shots. But the junior goaltender--who seemed nervous, and understandably so, all afternoon--lost his footing in the opening minutes of the third quarter to let the Indians get on the scoreboard...
...huge spitting-stinking cripple eases his way down the stairs to the Kenmore Square subway, propped up by a cane and a Louisville Slugger. "It's Dal Maxvill's bat--the one he got the hit with." he says. "I got it from the Cardinal clubhouse...
...most artful burglar since Maury Wills decided to go straight. Lean, whippet-fast, a master of getting the jump on a pitcher, Brock has stolen no fewer than 189 bases in the last three years, and reform never entered his head last week. Four times he came to bat, four times he singled; twice he stole second, and once he went all the way from first to third on a hit to leftfield. All that scampering around produced two runs, and the ball game...
...Blast and the Brush. Which, since he is Yaz, is just what he did. Stepping up to bat in the fourth inning he cracked a fastball into the rightfield bleachers, then blasted another even deeper into the stands with two on in the seventh, and followed that with a line drive sin gle in the eighth. Total RBIs: four. One would have been enough. On the mound now was Boston's other ace, Jim Lonborg, fully rested and feeling mean. Always the possessor of a smoking fastball, Lonborg had only a so-so record until the spring when Pitching...
...spinning back from the plate; two pitches later Brock popped out to short. That set the pattern. Unable to dig in against Lonborg's low, fast stuff, one after another of the Cards went down-three, then six, nine, twelve. As the tension mounted, 24 Cardinals came to bat, and not one got a hit. At last, with two out in the eighth, St. Louis' Julian Javier looped a hanging slider into leftfield for a double. Lonborg threw his hands to his face. "It was utter agony," he said later. "I really thought I had it." What...