Word: catchers
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...brighten the opening two games in Kansas City, both in the field and at bat. Though outpitched twice, St. Louis won 3-1 and 4-2. In the second game, poor Charlie Leibrandt would have thrown a three-hitter to level the Series for the Royals if only Catcher Jim Sundberg or First Baseman Steve Balboni had overtaken a foul pop-up just beside the dugout. The spitting image of Archie Bunker's meathead son-in-law, Balboni wears a particular expression of impending disaster...
Wilson appears in an anti-drug commercial on TV. So does Cardinal Catcher Darrell Porter, who used to know twin demons, drugs and alcohol. Plainly, trouble visits the middle of the country too. The family of baseball, which like every other family has had its share of troubles during the past year but is working desperately to solve them, did as much advertising at this World Series as some breweries. Most of the jailed Royals and confessed Cardinals have been dispersed, but the third game opened pointedly with Immunized Witness Lonnie Smith in the batter's box facing his former...
...squeeze, and they knew it was coming, so they pitched out,” Vance said. “I threw my bat out there, and the catcher came out of his crouch early...
After reserve catcher Andrew Casey and Wallace singled to start off the inning, Brown reached third on a two-run error by Bulldog third baseman Matt Stone. Vance, the leadoff hitter, followed with an infield single to drive in Brown and cut Yale’s lead...
...Herrmann] was throwing gas today,” the catcher said of Herrmann’s two-hit, complete-game shutout. “That first pitch he threw was one of the hardest balls I’ve ever caught...