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Harvard starter George Lalich got in trouble in the first inning when he walked the first two batter. Holy Cross first baseman Phil O'Neil then hit a grounder to Bill Cobb at third. Cobb made the play at third but overthrew first baseman John Ignacio and Holy Cross had its first run. A single to centerfield made it 2-0 before Lalich pitched...
Cleveland starter Sonny Siebert and reliever Hal Kurtz each hit one Boston batter, and Yastrzemski and Joe Foy were both sent sprawling...
...four-minute mile escaped Baker once again as he edged out teammate Roy Shaw in the time of 4:08.4, but he came back in the two-mile event to batter the stadium record by 6 seconds. Doug Hardin also finished under the old mark, only a second behind Baker...
...stand out there shaking off catcher's sign after sign while tension mounts; no longer will a reliever trudge in from the faraway bullpen like a matador with his warmup jacket slung over his pitching arm (he will now ride in a golf cart); no longer will a batter try to rattle the pitcher by demanding that the umpire examine the ball. What's left to relieve the boredom? The seventh-inning stretch...
...bottom of the sixth the sky had gone gray, as gray as the Twins--but from this sign alone one couldn't tell whose side Nature was on Lonborg was the first batter, and he beat Chance again, this time with a rolling bunt. That was it. One didn't need a psychic model to interpret this key. Fortune was gleefully clubbing us with blatant clues. Adair, Jones and Yastrzemski followed with singles. The score was tied...