Word: buntings
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...games over Cincinnati, only two games over the incredible Los Angeles Dodgers, who won their sixth straight in typical Dodger fashion; trailing the Milwaukee Braves 6-1, they fought back to tie the score, won the game in the 11th inning when Shortstop Maury Wills beat out a bunt, stole his third base of the game (and 88th of the season), and scored on Lou Johnson's two-out single...
...games-14 games ahead of his pace three years ago, when he broke Ty Cobb's 47-year-old big-league record by stealing 104 bases. Sighs Mets Manager Casey Stengel: "Those Dodgers are a running club. They hit and run. They run and hit. They bunt. They steal. They take chances." And they...
Crimson pitcher Jim McCandlish, thinking he had detected the beginning of a fad, ventured another bunt. He was right. The catcher hit him in the back with the ball and the bases were loaded. Houston then grounded sharply to the left side of the infield. The Holy Cross shortstop made a diving catch but had no play as Neville crossed the plate...
Harvard scored once more in the fifth when Hootstein singled and went to second on Falcone's bunt as the Holy Cross catcher, trying to get the lead runner, threw the ball into center field. Gary Miller sacrificed the runners to second and third, and Hootstein came home on Neville's ground ball...
...gave up two singles in both the seventh and eighth innings, but escaped both times. The Crusaders' Bill Sexton and Jim Gravel led off the ninth with identical singles into left, but as a mob of three Harvard pitchers began to warm up, Kevin Foster popped up a bunt attempt to McCandlish. Pinch hitter Earl Kirmser then grounded an instant double play ball to third: add Houston and stir. And the game was over...