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Pressure-pumped Reggie Jackson supplied it, and why not? On Stanley's fourth pitch to Jackson--and the seventh and last of his brief relief stint--the Yankee slugger took a fastball out over the plate and sent it air-mail express to the centerfield bleachers--5-2 now, and climbing...
...Brohamer sent Baker to the showers after five innings of near-perfect work. With John Hiller on the mound for Detroit, Jason Thompson nearly killed the rally by gunning pinch-runner Frank Duffy at the plate with one out, but Mr. Remy coolly stroked his game-winning single to centerfield moments later...
With Willie Randolph at first, Hobson fielded a Thurman Munson sizzler and misfired the ball into centerfield in his haste to turn the double play. Remy then let a Reggie Jackson dribbler squirt through his legs, and the aggressive-running Bombers had tallied twice to close the gap to 6-3. But Jackson was cut down trying to stretch the Remy error into a double, and reliever Bob Stanley fanned Chris Chambliss to quash the rebellion...
...fans were getting on his back. Taking too much time. Looking confused. Scratching himself on the mound. In a flurry of hungry impatience, the drug-addled bleacherpeople tossed paper cups and programs into centerfield, where Freddy Lynn dutifully picked them...
Butch Hobson provided the only run for the Sox with a long shot over the centerfield fence in the fifth, his eighth homer of the year. John Mayberry tied it in the sixth with a sacrifice fly that scored Bob Bailor...