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...Bucky Dent, the starting shortstop whose play has tested the loyalty of many a Yankee fan, coupled his bat with less-than-graceful Lou Piniella's glove to form one mammoth unsung hero for New York. Dent's three-run homer in the seventh that put the Yankees ahead silenced a too-cocky-for-such-a-close-game Fenway crowd, while Piniella's defensive efforts in Glaucoma Country (sundrenched right field) enabled the lead to hold...
After looking like Little Leaguers against sharp ex-Yankee righthander Mike Torrez for the first six innings, the Bronx Bombers stunned the partisan crowd by surging into a 5-2 lead in the seventh and eighth innings on home run blasts by Bucky Dent and Reggie Jackson, sandwiched around Thurman Munson's RBI double...
...passing department, speedy Minuteman flanker Dennis Dent earned double coverage all day, and the so heavy burden of man-to-man receiver coverage fell on the shoulders of Potysman and cornerback mate Fred Cordova...
...Double Dent...
...against a guy like Dent you have to double him, and so you gamble on their other people," Restic said...