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...ended at 12:33 a.m., they were still one short. "What the hell," said Cincinnati Third Baseman Pete Rose, later voted the Series' most valuable player, "it had to be the greatest World Series game in history." Indeed, aside from Fred Lynn's numbing collision with the centerfield wall after barely missing a long Ken Griffey fly, at least three Red Sox feats outdid Hollywood. There were Pinch Hitter Bernie Carbo's eighth-inning, three-run homer that tied the game; Rightfielder Dwight Evans' game-saving catch of a Joe Morgan drive in the eleventh...
...That was the moment when Reds Pinch Hitter Ed Armbrister bunted, hesitated as he started toward first, and then collided with Red Sox Catcher Carlton Fisk just as Fisk was trying to field the ball. Fisk pushed Armbrister aside, then threw the ball over second base into centerfield. Was his error caused by interference? If so, Armbrister was out and the runner would return to first. If not, the Reds had two men on base and nobody...
...pitcher Rawly Eastwick. Armbrister laid down a bunt in front of home plate, but when Red Sox catcher Carlton Fisk tried to make a throw to second to get Geronimo, he ran into Armbrister. As a result, Fisk's throw went over shortstop Rick Burleson's head and into centerfield. A heated argument between Sox manager Darrell Johnson and home plate umpire Barnett ensued, but the appeal did not succeed...
...almost went ahead in the tenth when Yastrzemski hit a ball deep to centerfield with Denny Doyle on first. Reds centerfielder Geronimo caught up to it, though, and the Red Sox were blanked in the rest of the inning...
...Sandy Koufax, Stengel adjusted. He signed on at $75 a month with the Kankakee, Ill., club and immediately became the clown prince of the bush leagues. Running to his position, the outfielder liked to practice sliding into home plate en route. "There was a lunatic asylum across from the centerfield fence," he remembered. "My manager used to point there and say, 'It's only a matter of time, Stengel.' " But Casey had a farther destination...