Word: bunting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Davis had three hits, including the game-winner off reliever Scott Garrelts (9-5) and drove in four runs. The Reds loaded the bases in the eighth on Dave Concepcion's single, a walk to Bo Diaz and a bunt single by Ron Oester...
Until Strawberry's clout, the closest either team had come to scoring was during the Met seventh, when a Ray Knight single and a Rafael Santana double left men at second and third with one out. Darling missed a suicide squeeze bunt and pinch-runner Howard Johnson was tagged out at home. Darling popped up to end the inning...
...still drunk," Catcher Gary Carter calls out a reminder. "Let's get the double play," barks Third Baseman Ray Knight. Joey Amalfitano, the Dodger coach at third base, wigwags some semaphore to Scioscia, who flicks his helmet to signal message received. Gooden looks at Knight and mouths, "Squeeze bunt?" Knight looks at Amalfitano and says, "Too obvious." At first base, Keith Hernandez gives thought to visiting Gooden, but reconsiders. "What am I going to tell him? Bear down?" Bearing down, Gooden makes Scioscia foul out to Carter on the first delivery, a fourth fast ball...
Dartmouth scored on a squeeze bunt in the top of the eighth, and then gunned down Harvard's Mary MacKinnon at the place in the bottom of the mining to clinch the victory...
...eigth, a Pakalnis walk, a Vallone single, a Tony DiCesare bunt and a McAndrews sacrifice fly narrowed the margin to one, setting the stage for Vallone's and Vierra's ninth-inning heroics...