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Carew is a fleet runner who legs out a good percentage of his hits each year. His speed provides a sure-fire method of breaking a slump: bunting. In fact, he lays down bunts better than anyone since Phil Rizzuto. Once in spring training he challenged a teammate to toss a sweater onto the infield, then rolled a bunt into its enveloping folds. The sweater was moved; he bunted dead center again. More than a dozen times, first on the third-base line, then the first-base side, he put the ball on target...
...slumping Carew makes plans to bunt even as he drives to the ballpark. His technique is far more effective than the superstitious rites of old. The Yankees' Jake Powell, operating in the '30s on the then widely held belief that finding a hairpin brought base hits, once followed a woman for three miles after noticing that a large bone pin in her hair was loose. When it finally fell, Powell scooped it up, rushed to the park and -confidence restored-tripled his first time up. Al Lopez, who was a National League catcher...
...manager was Billy Martin, now the godfather of Carew's older daughter, Charryse. "I taught him how to steal home," Martin says. "That's all I ever taught him. As for hitting, he knew how to do that all by himself." Martin adds: "And he could bunt .330 if he tried...
Dave Singleton maintained the momentum, tapping a bunt single for his second hit of the day. But the sophomore was thrown out trying to steal, and the rally was crushed...
Baloff walked the first man in the eighth and ran the count to three balls, no strikes on the second hitter. This brought on Rob Alevizos, who delivered a fourth ball, got one out on a sacrifice bunt, then gave up a triple which scored two Eagles...