Word: catcher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hander breezed into the seventh inning with a 2-0 lead, he had retired 18 consecutive men. Many fans in Fenway Park recalled Don Larson's perfect game for the Yanks in the '56 series. When the dangerous Lou Brock grounded meekly to second, it was easy to imagine catcher Elston Howard leaping Yogi Berra-style into Lonborg's arms...
After Willis replaced Hughes, Petrocelli sent Flood deep to center for his sacrifice fly to score Scott and moved Smith to third. Petrocelli took second on a delayed double steal as Shannon made a diving stop of catcher McCarver's throw to save a run. Elston Howard was then intentionally walked to load the bases, and Lonborg--after hitting a line foul off Jose Tartabull in the on-deck circle--struck out on three pitches...
...charged in--"a million miles an hour," one bleacherite observed--and gunned a strike to catcher Russ Gibson to get the sliding Javier for the third...
...batter insists, the plate umpire will examine the ball-but by then the evidence has dried up or been wiped away by the catcher. In one game at Boston, visiting hitters complained so often that Red Sox pitchers were doctoring the ball that Umpire Hank Soar called for it, examined it carefully, found it clean-and in a gesture of resignation spat on it himself before firing it back to the mound...
...riding an eleven-game hitting streak? Or that Rightfielder Maris, who was considered all washed up by the New York Yankees after he hit .239 in 1965 and .233 in 1966, would be batting .289 and personally have won a dozen games with timely base hits? Or that Catcher Tim McCarver's batting average (.318) would be up almost 50 points over 1966? Or that Second Baseman Julian Javier would already have driven in more runs (43) and hit more homers (11) than he did all last year...