Word: bunting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inning later Marni made a second error, Joe Sciolla reached first and things looked rosy for the Crimson nine when Leon Goetz was hit by a pitch while trying to bunt, placing runners of, first and second with nobody out. But once again Walker responded to the pressure, and quelled Harvard's hopes by first inducing a force-out at third then striking out Barry Cronin on a called third strike, and finally getting Sandy Milley on a grounder...
...Yale batter lays down what he hopes will be a bunt instead the ball drops on home plate and lazily begins to roll backwards Catcher Bill Cote grabs it, convinced it is foul and jokingly tags out the Yale who is tearing down from third base...
...dashes nonchalantly down to first base, tagging out the unsuspecting Bulldog he finds there, and then steps on the bag. The batter who laid down the bunt heard round the world...
...first game, the A's showed how a club with the second lowest team batting average in the A.L. could win the pennant for a third consecutive year. Oakland got only six hits, but scored on a home run, a suicide squeeze bunt and a throwing error by the Dodgers. Game No. 2 gave the Dodgers a chance to recover, and Los Angeles Rightfielder Joe Ferguson provided the power with a two-run homer. When Finley tried to fight back with Herb Washington, the inexperienced sprinter whom he hired this year as unofficial designated runner, Dodger Relief Ace Mike...
...lefthander Bill Lee and Yankee ace Doc Medich dueled brilliantly for nine and a half innings. But in the Yankee half of the tenth, Alomar led off with a walk. Substitute shortstop Fred Stanley followed with a perfect sacrifice bunt that got Alomar to second...