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Tuesday, however, it will be quite different. For one thing, Fred Stanley and Steve Dillard are not running for anything including the baseball which just skipped off their gloves into centerfield, and for another, even if they were, they'd probably lose...
...left of the centerfield bleachers stands the awesome left-field fence. Rising 37 feet from the ground and standing just 315 feet from home plate, it can transform routine pop-ups into home runs and rising line drives into mere singles. Mostly out of reverence (as opposed to either love or hate), the huge metal structure is nicknamed "The Green Monster." With it have ridden the bright-eyed hopes of right-handed sluggers, the greatest fears of southpaw pitchers, and a good deal of the suspense which comprises the Fenway mystique...
...opened the scoring in the second inning when Rick Burleson's RBI double dropped into short centerfield between three Royals. Rico Petrocelli drove in Jim Rice in the fourth for Boston's second tally...
After relinquishing singles to the first two men up in the inning, Linehan bore down and induced two ground balls. The first one became a fielder's choice and the first out, but the second one, the potential inning-ending double-play ball, was thrown into centerfield...
...Yankees went on to win the game 11-4, but their inaugural moments were a fright. Starting Pitcher Rudy May walked the first Minnesota Twin to face him on four pitches, and then saw his fifth knocked over the left-centerfield fence by Dan Ford for the new stadium's first home run. With that an annoyed patron released a live piglet onto the field. But then Lefthander May, who was born in Coffeyville, Kans., and once went to a psychiatrist to cure his pitching woes, wound up and delivered a high, tight "moving" fastball to the Twins...