Word: bullpen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...World Series left you breathless. And if you were an older fan, you were so reminded of the passion play between the Milwaukee Braves and New York Yankees in the 1957 and 1958 World Series that you half expected the Yankees' Bullet Bob Turley to come in from the bullpen to face Frank Torre, who was then the Braves' first baseman and not just Yankee manager Joe Torre's older brother...
...number one pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates for most of this year, Denny Neagle. The Yankees, meanwhile, are thin in the starting rotation (manager Joe Torre is considering using a three-man rotation of David Cone, Andy Pettitte, and Jimmy Key) but have perhaps the best bullpen in baseball. All of which you would think would make for a rather mundane, pitcher's duel series that should favor Atlanta. But at least half of the games will be played in New York, where fans tend to enter into the field of play, and anything can happen. Play ball! -->
...only took another half-inning for Bentley to retake the lead, this time for good. With one out, Duffell walked DeMartinis, and with the Falcons' big gun at the plate--19-homer man Mike Hill--Walsh didn't want to take any chances and sent for the bullpen...
With all these games, the whole staff will have to work together to produce Crimson success. Expect to see junior Frank Hogan throwing again this weekend (he came out of the bullpen against UNH); and freshman Quinn Schafer might see a start...
...probably the player they least expected to defect," Fernandez said last week through Carlos Alfonso, the Giants bullpen coach who has been acting as his interpreter. "I am from Holguin, in the country, and nobody from the country had ever defected. Even though I began to think about it in 1993, I never told anyone, including my wife...