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BOSTON RED SOX: With players like Fred Lynn, Jim Rice, Dennis Eckersley, and Rick Burleson just entering their prime, the Red Sox look tough. The Red Sox will go as far as catcher Carlton Fisk's fragile throwing arm and the pitching staff can take them. Eckersley's arm hurts, but he should be okay once the season opens, and look for Mike Torrez, Chuck Rainey and bullpen ace Skip Lockwood to have good seasons...
...Carlton Fisk said a day before his team moved into a first place tie at the end of 1978's 162nd game. Sitting in limbo, still, it seems with closet injuries looming before the Sox as impending doom. What if Fred Lynn gets hit by a cherry bomb , if Burleson runs into a hungry boa constrictor in Texas? The Yankees always could catch up, the Red Sox could break into a strongend-of-the-season stride, and the O's could die in a plane crash. The American League East is no place for betters...
...season--despite its feeling of one day-at-a-time caution--has the kindest offerings of any in recent history. This is the first season which hasn't taken its toll on Lynn, Hobson, and Burleson--or burned out its pitching staff-before the stretch rolls around. In fact, the team--with the important exception of Fisk--is in its best health ever. The pitching staff has not performed beyond anyone's expectations, but neither have they backed down. New faces like Steve Renko have been struggling for recognition right from February 15, and they have produced better than even...
With Hobson, Burleson and Lynn healthy, the Red Sox are twice as potent. And the Red Sox have recently acquired what they have needed for a year--a new first baseman. Though George Scott recalls memories of golden gloves and home-run rallies, it was apparent last March that Scott's best years had come and gone. He came to spring training in 1978 grossly overweight, and though he lost some pounds this winter, he never got his needle back on true north...
Toby Harrah stole second in the third inning, and went on to third when Burleson bobbled a slowly hit Norris grounder. Bonds whiffed again, though, and the Tribe scare was over...