Word: dodger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have just added three certified all-stars-Ron Le Flore, Carlton Fisk and Greg Luzinski-to an all-pitch, no-hit team. Kansas City, the loser in last fall's World Series, is in last place in the American League West, and an aging Los Angeles Dodger team that had the experts shaking their heads in the off season jumped out to a 14-5 record, the best spring since the team left Brooklyn 24 years...
...talked about Dodger rookie Fernando Valenzuela ("He ain't no mistake, he knows how to pitch") and other fine pitchers, and when the Texas starting nine was flashed on the scoreboard, he said, "Look at that lineup." And it was a good lineup...
...lineup has one big gap: Pitcher Don Sutton, the alltime Dodger leader in victories (230, against 175 losses), joined Houston as a free agent during the offseason. Says Garvey: "You hope that the whole staff can combine to take up the slack. And we have some good young pitchers coming along...
Besides Houston and Pittsburgh, the Red Sox are reportedly still talking to Los Angeles about acquiring Dodger catcher Steve Yeager and/or pitcher Dave Stewart. In return, the Dodgers are asking for reliever Tom Burgmeier plus other considerations...
According to an official in the Dodger organization, those are all the names being thrown around at this time. If however, the Dodgers refuse to surrender Hatcher, two things could happen...