Word: contests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...indeed it was a photo finish. The Sox seemingly had the contest and the pennant wrapped up after touching Yankee ace Ron Guidry for two runs in the first five innings--one on a towering Yaz homer in the second, the other on a Jim Rice single...
Down 1-0 in the second after Greg Luzinski's triple was turned into the game's first run with a Mike Schmidt sacrifice fly, Los Angeles popped for four runs in the top half of the third to lead the contest for keeps. Garvey's first blast, a three-run round-tripper down the left-field line, was the big blow in that frame...
...need for four different Philadelphia pitchers and the power with which the Dodgers greeted each one seemed to keynote this contest, and unfortunately for the Phils, may keynote the entire series if they cannot come up with a mound humbler of some sort. Retread Dick Rutheven gets his chance against L.A. lefty Tommy John when the series resume in Philly tomorrow...
Coach Peter Felske's rookie troops should easily handle today's contest. The Crimson whitewashed Wellesley in last year's opener, 8-0, and the racqueteers should dispose of them just as effortlessly this time around...
...things developed from the outset, thought, it looked as though the photo finish would have the Red Sox on top. Although both teams entered the contest with 99-63 records, the Bosox had an eight-game winning streak and a rabid home crowd in their favor...