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This year the stumbling started at the All-Star break, when the Red Sox were 57-26. In a decline fueled by injuries, they since then have played below .500 ball. In early July, Shortstop Rick Burleson hurt his ankle and missed 18 games, twelve of which the team lost. The Sox doyen. Carl Yastrzemski. injured his nagging back, then his shoulder, then his wrist. Pepper-Pot Second Baseman Jerry Remy fractured his wrist last month, and is still playing with it taped. Dwight Evans was hit by a pitch and gets dizzy chasing fly balls. Add to that Catcher...
...their best scoring opportunity in the first. Burleson led off with a single and Remy beat out a bunt, but Rozema struck out Rice, Carl Yastrzemski grounded out, and the Tigers were rolling...
...Rick Burleson got the Sox going in the third with a single and a stolen base. He then scored as 39-year-old Carl Yastrzemski popped a single into left-center with...
Dwight Evans singled in the fifth and moved to second on a Burleson sacrifice. Evans then came home on a Remy single. The same threesome teamed up in the seventh to bring Evans home again for a 3-0 lead before the Scott-sparked, eighth-inning breaker...
Bobby, frozen in his follow-up, watched the scene get madder and madder, with believing awe. His teammates swarmed him, they banged him and they laughed insanely: Fisk, Burleson, Scott, Yastrzemski, Rice...Lee and Zimmer hugged each other in ecstasy, 14-year-old girls kissing Bobby wetly, yelping fans tried to do everything but get inside of his skin...