Word: bullpen
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...eighth inning with one out and the Sox behind 4 to 2, Ted lined a perfect fast ball over the right field bullpen...
...that came only to say goodbye to their Ted, Williams hit near homers in his two previous trips to the plate. In the third inning, he belted a high fly to deep center, 20 feet short of the wall; in the fifth, Baltimore rightfielder Al Pilarcik backed against the bullpen fence to grab another Williams...
...while a succession of anxious managers concocted bizarre schemes to improve his accuracy. They tried pitching him only 15 ft. from the plate, gradually lengthening the distance, only to discover that Dalkowski's wildness increased in direct ratio to the distance. A wooden target was erected in the bullpen; Dalkowski missed it completely on his first few pitches, then hit it square, smashed it to splinters and ended the experiment. "One night during a game," recalls Steve. "I threw three hard ones over the catcher's head. Each ball went through the wire screen. Next night...
...eighth, fanning three men in the ninth. In the fourth game, he set down the White Sox without a hit in the eighth and ninth, was credited with the 5-4 win. By the sixth game Lawrence Sherry was so eager to pitch that he swaggered in from the bullpen in the fourth inning with unconcealed, cocky cheer. He shut out the White Sox the rest of the way, won the 9-3 game that gave the World Series to the Dodgers...
...record at St. Paul in July when the Dodgers took a chance by bringing him up. But Rookie Sherry developed confidence under the pressure of the Dodgers' hard drive for the pennant, compiled a 7-2 record in the National League. "When I come in from the bullpen," he said, "nothing bothers...