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...first on singles by George Brett (2-for-5) and Amos Otis (3-for-5, 1 RBI) and a Darrel Porter sacrifice. In the second inning, though, they broke the game open, scoring four runs on five hits and a bizarre error by Yankee shortstop Bucky Dent, who hit Clint Hurdle in the back while trying to throw him out at third...
Meanwhile, the Yankees kept blowing opportunities to score against Gura (16-4 on the year). Dent and Munson grounded into double plays to kill potential rallies in the second and third innings, and going into the seventh frame the World Champs had but four hits and no runs...
...Thurman Munson and Jackson when Graig Nettles' 400-foot drive to deep center was caught, Leonard promptly got himself in trouble in the second by serving up a curveball that the black bat of Roy White ripped down the right field line for a double. Monday's hero, Bucky Dent, then singled White home and the Yanks were on their...
Boston's second tally turned out to be no insurance run, however. In the top of the seventh, Torrez lost his stuff visibly as Chris Chambliss and Roy White ripped singles off him, setting the stage for Dent's two-out heroics...
After injuring his ankle on a one-and-one-foul tip, Dent paced around for about a minute and accepted a new bat from Mickey Rivers (he had the wrong one) before stepping back in the batter's box. Torrez hung a watermelon-sized curveball over the plate on the next pitch, and Dent pop-gunned it into the screen, just over the Green Monster...