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...scene was madness. The Cincinnati Reds. The LAST pitch. Zimmer stood fixed, staring stonily from the dugout, a Grand Teutonic field marshal in double-knits. Bill Lee was doing some yoga stretches in the bullpen, singing Hindu chants from the Bhagavad Gita. The lights from downtown Boston flickered off past right field in the glare of ballpark floodlights, the green monster stood impassive...
...Stanley matched McClure's performance out of the Boston bullpen, but to no avail...
...limitations, the '78 Phils have the horses to win the Eastern crown for the third straight year. They have the best fielding third baseman in the game, a Polish sausage who clouts 130 RBIs a season in left field, a superlative shortstop, the '77 Cy Young winner, a good bullpen and several other bonafide stars. And then some...
...Rawly Eastwick of the St.,Louis Cardinals, who had an off year in 1977 but was the League's top reliever for the Reds in 1976. Since the American League's No. 1 fireman, Cy Young Winner Sparky Lyle, was already in Yankee employ, Steinbrenner's bullpen overkill brought immediate-and pained-reaction. Lyle paused between banquet speeches long enough to scream, "Trade...
What Martin has in mind is to employ the strategy pioneered by Reds' Manager Sparky Anderson: pull his starters after six innings or so in order to feed the talented bullpen. That tactic could save fragile arms, but it will prevent healthy pitchers from going the full nine innings that build stats-and egos. No less an expert than Lyle acknowledges: "Show me a starting pitcher who doesn't like to finish what he starts. They...