Word: bunt
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These Yankees didn't even make it to the top of most SportsCenter highlights. After all, what would you show them doing? Executing a perfect rundown? Shifting the right way in the outfield? Laying down a really neat bunt...
That was the glad nerve Ruth palpated. When he showed up with his superfluity of power, the apparently effortless capacity to render moot all the niggling fine points of the contest, the game was instantly changed. The bunt, the stolen base, the Baltimore chop were back-burnered for decades. Ruth's brash Yankees went to the 1923 World Series against the New York Giants, the classiest tacticians of their day. The series went to six games, but the Babe poled three into the right-field seats, and the Yankee dynasty had begun. Heywood Broun spoke for millions of delighted fans...
Junior rightfielder Andrew Huling led of theinning with a bunt single, and reached second on athrowing error. Then Ralph--the defending IvyLeague Player of the Year--went to the oppositefield with his ninth home run on the season givingthe Crimson a 4-2 lead...
Harvard wasted no time in regaining itsthree-run advantage. In the bottom half of theframe, sophomore Jessie Amberg drew a leadoff walkand moved to second on a sacrifice bunt byLaSovage...
...remained a one-run contest until Harvardblew it open in the fifth with five runs on fivehits. Amberg started the affair with a lead-offdouble into the left centerfield gasp, and LaSovagefollowed with a slap-bunt single to short.Franzese's sacrifice bunt up the first-base lineadvanced the runners and brought Abeles to theplate...