Word: bullpens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...avant-garde clothes," Pinky says, "avantgarde and expensive, but we use lots of discipline in the men's things." Examples: silk shirts with small collars, suede as lively as dyed denim and a baseball jacket made of tweed and leather that no pitcher would risk leaving in the bullpen...
...George will strike a blow for women's lib and hire the first female manager. Jane Fonda's been wondering how to get herself and the anti-nukes back in the headlines. Tom Hayden coaching at first, Dr. Benjamin Spock at third, and Harvard's George Wald in the bullpen telling the receivers about the little children of El Salvador...
...Brian Kingman, 2-0, 0.82; Matt Keogh, 3-0, 0.33. So far this year, Oakland's relief pitchers are the most underemployed crew in baseball. In the first 16 games, they worked a grand total of 7⅔ innings. Says Righthander Jeff Jones of life in the bullpen: "We eat a lot of sunflower seeds...
...emergence of Smerczynski as the bullpen ace. The fireballer picked up his first win with a strong performance in the opener, whiffing Paul Kupcha in the seventh with probably the best fastball thrown all day. His one mistake, a change-up which number two hitter Steve Flacco pelted for a single, was erased when Vinnie Martelli gunned down Flacco as the Quaker tried to steal second...
Indeed, the Dodgers may have the best young pitcher in baseball in Fernando Valenzuela, 20. He had already mastered the arcane art of throwing a screwball when the Dodgers called him up from the Mexican League to prop up a bullpen crumbling under injuries. Valenzuela pitched ten times, often with the game on the line, and did not give up a single earned run in 17.2 innings. Now a starter, he shut out the Astros on opening day last week, allowing them only five hits...