Word: broken-bat
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When Jose Canseco laced a broken-bat single into left to score Luis Alicea for the go-ahead and division-winning run, the roar was deafening but only about a minute long. I suppose that is something, since people even stopped gulping down their beer at that moment...
...slugger hit a little broken-bat flare into right that dropped in for a run-scoring single. Don Baylor and Tony Armas (who raised his average 40 points with his four-hit performance) follwed with back-to-back doubles to put the Sox up 5-0 and send Viola to the showers...
...fifth, Smith stretched a single to a double on Amos Otis's throw and Rose sacrificed him to third. Otis scored later on Bake McBride's broken-bat single. The fourth run came in the sixth inning after Bowa doubled off the left field screen and then scored on Boone's base...
...Cleveland for three runs in the first inning. Rich Coggins walked and Paul Blair promptly doubled off the wall in deep left center to chase him home. After Bobby Grich lofted a sacrifice fly to rightfielder Dwight Evans to send Blair to third, Powell delivered his first hit, a broken-bat blooper to center, to score Blair...
After watching the Giants' once commanding lead cut to one slim game, Manager Charlie Fox seemed all but spooked. "How in God's name could they be so lucky?" he exclaimed. "They win with broken-bat hits, handle hits, bunts just barely out of reach, hits off the end of the bat, balls that hit the rim of the Astroturf carpet and hop funny. But luck has got to come back to us now. It's impossible for things to continue going the way they have for them." Not necessarily. The Dodgers of late have been making...