Word: clutching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Strike three. Christ-a tie ball game. It really got Bobby's bile up when the high-paid hitters couln't hit homeruns during clutch situations. They're pulling in hundreds of thousands of dollars to play a game and he had to leave home and sweat away eight hours a day at meaningless work. By the time he would get home he'd be too tired to do anything but drink beer and watch a ball game, a captive audience. There were so many useless people in America -- he was grinding his teeth now -- ball players...
...Commission, it's a gypsie cab. A hundred newspaper headlines fire the peculiar sort of panic that only the truly paranoid feel. The visions of being driven to some out-of-the-way alley, held up and perhaps shot by this mysterious driver, flash by in an instant. You clutch your wallet, tell him no thanks, you'll wait for the bus, and watch him smile the rueful smile of an honest man. The drunks coming out of the bar snicker at your blind fear, and nod at the cabbie, who walks away shaking his head...
Home runs by Cecil Cooper and Charlie Moore, combined with Bob McClure's clutch relief pitching, powered the Milwaukee Brewers to a 6-4 win over the Red Sox at Milwaukee last night...
Championship teams, it is said, are those which come through in the clutch, which win the belly games, which remain cool and perform their appointed duties in the toughest of circumstances. And while it may not yet be the time to start talking championship for the 1978 Harvard tennis team, the Crimson netmen demonstrated that they are a pretty classy bunch by gutting out a 6-3 victory in an exceedingly close match on Columbia's home courts yesterday afternoon...
...third, an error by the Huskies' third baseman, a stolen base and a fielder's choice put Santos-Buch on third with two outs. A clutch Paul Halas single then plated him with the Crimson's second...