Word: dodgerism
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...head in the oven." Scampering up from the minors during the last days of August, wide-eyed, 21 and charitably listed at 5 ft. 10 in., Jefferies showed the team that thought it had everything what had been missing for a while: boyishness and wonder. As Steve Sax, the Dodger second baseman, said after the Mets dissolved, "Hey, don't ever forget to have...
...foot from shore, of Los Angeles outfielder Kirk Gibson limping out the grand home runs on a frayed leg injected with cortisone (in the spirit of the times, a steroid; "It's amazing what drugs can do," he said), or of National League president A. Bartlett Giamatti sniffing Dodger relief pitcher Jay Howell's glove for pine tar or caramel ("I felt there could be some amelioration by me," said Giamatti, sounding like Casey Stengel). But the memory is of Jefferies botching a bunt, booting a double play, running into a ball on the base paths, hitting .333 and looking...
...expert on sticky situations, the Athletic-turned-Dodger Howell, says of his ex-teammates, "They're all pretty calm that way, studied, directed, prepared -- they're real prepared." His obvious reference is to Tony La Russa, 44, a thoughtful manager whose unusual breadth has never required him to let out his pants. Over eight seasons with the Chicago White Sox and three in Oakland, La Russa has grown increasingly sensitive to the nagging charge of being an attorney-at-law. Branch Rickey and Miller Huggins were good baseball men and members of the bar, but the A's skipper...
Thirdbaseman Carney Lansford led off the inning with a single up the middle and on a hit-and-run, second-baseman Tony Phillips grounded a ball towards the hole vacated by Dodger shortstop Alfredo Griffin, who was covering second base. Griffin was forced to backtrack to the ball and Phillips beat out the play for an infield...
...Dodgers pitcher, who finished the year with 59 consecutive scoreless innings--breaking the old record of former Dodger great, Don Drysdale, allowed only two runs in the eighteen innings he pitched in the series. Hershiser also drilled three hits in the Game...