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...took over the team in July of last year, he found a talented but badly divided club of disgruntled veterans and confused younger players. "I held more meetings than Henry Kissinger my first month here," Herzog says. His biggest success has been in stabilizing the pitching staff, especially the bullpen. There, Steve Mingori, a 32-year-old reliever who credits acupuncture for the first pain-free season of his career, has the cunning and toughness under pressure of his breed. His righthanded counterpart, Mark Littell, 23, is a flaky rookie known as "Air Head," who has been anything but airy...
...course, only the end of May, and to call this series crucial would be more than boosterism. But the Red Sox have announced that they are trotting Reggie Cleveland out of the bullpen tonight at 7:30 p.m. And, they will throw Rick (two-hitter) Wise at Cy Young award winner Jim Palmer tomorrow. If that does not appeal, how does Looeee vs. Doyle Alexander on Sunday sound...
Once at the ballpark, one must decide where to sit: a) behind the Red Sox bullpen where one can listen to the pearls of wisdom of the verbose relief staff; b) Over the center field wall in spitting and jeering distance of Fred Lynn; c) behind those three blondes in the tight shirts over in the right field corner...
After about twenty minutes, the ground crew sent a cart out to retrieve Carter, and the entire bullpen left the bench to see the fallen Expo for themselves. Carter lay on the flat back of the cart and a towel was wrapped around his face. Twenty-five minutes after arriving in the clubhouse, a Polk Country ambulance took Carter to the local hospital for treatment. "Do I get the siren and all that stuff?" Carter asked the attendants. "Sorry, but no," one attendant replied. Then as the door of the ambulance closed, Carter shouted to an Expo coach, "Hey, save...
...Concussion city," pitcher Mark Bomback said as he walked over to the bullpen. "That's some bitch to hit that wall," another player said. "When he got up it looked like there was blood right here (pointing to his head...