Word: catchers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Brewer Centerfielder Gorman Thomas set a similarly down-home tone for Milwaukee when he solemnly called the World Series "the Grand Ole Opry of baseball," a middle-of-the-country jamboree. It started out as a tale of two catchers. Ted Simmons, whom Cardinal Manager Whitey Herzog had bravely traded to Milwaukee in 1980, homered in each of the first two games that the teams split in St. Louis. Darrell Porter, Herzog's former catcher at Kansas City whom he had signed to a fiveyear, $3.5 million contract as a free agent, had the decisive hit in Game...
...Louis scored its fifth run in the seventh when Lonnie Smith tripled and scored on an errant throw by Ganther. And the Cards scored their final run in the ninth' on a catcher's interference call, a double by Dane lorg and two walks...
...hits. But California Manager Gene Mauch made the most of them by letting his stronger batters hit away, even several times with a 3-0 count, and having his weaker batters lay the ball down. In fact, the last two batters in the Angel lineup, shortstop Tim Foli and catcher Bob Boone, drove in three of California's four runs...
...Pete Vukovich then threw one of the night's several errant pitches at Angel second baseman Bobby Grich, hitting him on the thigh Grich took first loading the bases for shortstop Tim Foli. Usually not a dangerous hitter. Foli managed to line a short single to left, scoring Eynn Catcher Bob Boone laid down a fine squeeze bunt, bringing DeCinces in. Vukovich escaped without further damage by getting left fielder Brian Downing to pop up, stranding two California runners...
Whiteyball means leading the majors, with the exception of the Rickey Henderson A's, in stolen bases, successfully employing the squeeze play almost two dozen times, and always sending the man home from third it also means third string catcher Glenn Brummer stealing home with two outs in the bottom of the twelfth and speedy Tommy Herr scoring from second on an infield...