Word: cy
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...dozen balls and then wandered over to the fence to sign his name on caps, baseballs and odd pieces of paper. Puckett spends an hour or so a day signing baseball cards mailed to him by fans and sending them back in postpaid envelopes. He was joined by Cy Young Award winner Frank Viola, who pitched a 24-7 season last year. The chain link fence is some eight feet high, so kids tossed their books and balls over the top. After signing, the players threw the objects back over the fence, in one of Viola's favorite spring rituals...
Tuesday night at the Metrodome, TJ started his 690th game. And he won his 287th, 4-2, against 28-year-old 1988 Cy Young Award winner Frank Viola...
...Cy Young...
...will get a $100,000 bonus for winning the Cy Young Award, $100,000 for the MVP Award, $50,000 for the playoff MVP, $75,000 for the World Series MVP and $25,000 for being selected to the All-Star Game...
While less suspenseful, the next game was even harder to swallow. In itself, Hershiser's 6-0 shutout was unsurprising. After topping off his Cy Young season with 59 scoreless innings -- one more than Don Drysdale's eternal streak -- he had blanked the blankety-blank Mets in the playoffs. But against Oakland, the hits that Hershiser allowed weren't as astonishing as those he accumulated: three of them. No Series pitcher had given as good as he got since the Yankees' Don Larsen went 0-for-2 in 1956. Orel yielded three singles but took two doubles and a single...