Word: centerfield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what happened next. Cuellar walked Leftfielder Willie Stargell on four straight pitches, moving Clemente to second. Then, with a 1-1 count on First Baseman Bob Robertson, Roberto tried to call a time-out to get the sign straight. Too late. Robertson drove the next pitch into the right centerfield mezzanine for a three-run homer. As Robertson crossed the plate, Stargell exclaimed: "Attaway to bunt!" Bunt? Robertson had missed the bunt sign. Final score: Pirates 5, Orioles...
...game on two singles in the seventh, and it stayed tied until the tenth. With one out, Frank Robinson walked, raced from first to third on Merv Rettenmund's single to center, and scored the winning run with a brilliant slide on a shallow fly ball hit to centerfield...
Back in 1969 when Southeast High School of St. Louis finished its baseball season by winning the Illinois Missouri championships. Chris Papagianis was in centerfield and 20 major league scouts were in the stands...
...ball, which strikes an animated Liberty Bell, which lights up along the crack, and the ball then ricochets and conks Phillis on the noggin. Phillis responds by shooting off a cannon while a large colonial flag unfurls from the press box and a fountain of "dancing waters" spouts in centerfield...
Since he joined the Pirates nine years ago, he has always hit what he likes to call "long taters"-a 512-ft. shot over the bleachers in the Los Angeles Dodger Stadium, a 542-ft. blast over the right-centerfield wall in Forbes Field. Trouble is, Willie has never been able to sustain his slugging over an entire season. Periodically slowed by bad knees, both of which have been operated on for bone chips, he is one of the league's most notorious streak hitters. Five years ago, for example, he set some kind of hot-cold record...