Word: bullpens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Supporting the front line is arguably the best bullpen in the business, led by the team's bulwark. Bruce Sutter (9-8, 35 saves, 3 04). Sutter had an abysmal month-long drought in which he was awful, with an ERA over seven Since then, just the sight of him warming up has been enough toquell nascent rallies and give opposing managers nightmares. With a week and a half remaining, Sutter has an outside shot at surpassing John Hiller's mark of 38 saves...
Rounding out the bullpen is an interesting trio: Cincinnati reject Doug Bair (5-3, 8 saves, 2.62), rookie Jeff Lahti (5-3, 3.86), and the aged veteran, the old slowballer himself, 43-year-old Jim Kaat (5-2, 2 saves...
...spectator's spokesman, eloquently mourns the major fallout from the contract and compensation wars." ...(T)he new salaries have vastly increased the distance between the players and the fans." Destroyed was the admittedly silly belief that the guy in the bleachers could be the guy in the bullpen. "The players are [now] businessmen too--businessmen with a vengeance, it seems--and the space between the fan and the player is the same light years span that divides the television star or the famous nightclub singer from his patronized and wholly anonymous audience...
Lefty John Sorich came in from the bullpen and after running the count on Snarsky to 3-1, got him to ground to shortstop. The ball, however, skipped up off the bumpy infield and ricocheted off Tony DiCesare's shoulder and into center field, scoring two more runs, all that Ballerini would need on this...
Navy's staff, on the other hand, has seen plenty of work. Bob Adrion (4-2, 5.58) and Craig Michael (3-2,2.68), the visitors probable starters, are both in mid-season form, and junkballer Craig Gibson has already earned himself a reputation in the Middie bullpen...