Word: buntings
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...incredible breakthrough. But the Flock is blind to the bright future Jonathan has opened to knowledge and perfect flight. They cast him out. Alone now, Jonathan improves his flying-night navigation, slow rolls, loops, the gull bunt. Eventually two radiant gulls who can fly precise formation with him appear and take him to what he (and the reader) at first thinks is heaven...
...stage was then set for the bottom half of the ninth. Home run threat Tenace drew a lead off walk and was soon replaced by pinch-runner Odom. Ted Kubiak popped up tempting to advance the runner with a bunt. Pinch hitter Dave Duncan drilled a single down the left field line, and Odom streaked to third. On a low pitch shortstop Bert Campaneris popped up behind first base. Joe Morgan called off first baseman Tony Ferez, pulled in the ball, and threw a sizzler to catcher Johnny Bench, who tagged out the sliding Odom...
...best alive, the Cardinals' Lou Brock, who at the time had 21 straight stolen bases to his credit. Brock did not make it 22. Against the Dodgers, Bench picked a runner off second base, cut down another at third, and then, after vacuuming a perfectly executed bunt, rocketed a throw to first to end the inning...
...outcome of the series was decided in the game against UConn the next day. The Huskies scored first on a triple by John Ihlenberg and a sacrifice bunt. They took advantage of Crimson fielding mistakes to score two runs in both the sixth and seventh innings, but after that Mike O'Malley held them scoreless for 8 2/3 innings before Ihlenberg hit a three-run homer in the 16th inning...
Cornell nearly blew the game open in its first time at bat. A walk and an infield error on a sacrifice bunt put men on first and second with one out and Boettcher made up for his error with a run-producing single. But after walking the next batter to fill the bases. Brayton got out of the inning with a strike out and a grounder to second...