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...pitching duel developed, the game turned more on strategy and small breaks than on the long ball. Following his first-inning double, Expo Tim Raines reached third on a fielder's choice and scored on a double play...
Most of the game was a pitching duel between Astro fastballer Nolan Ryan and Dodger rookie sensation Fernando Valenzuela. Neither team's hitters could mount serious threats until the bottom of the sixth...
...besieged port at the head of the Persian Gulf. Iraqi MiG-23s swooped overhead in bombing raids, drawing intense antiaircraft fire. One MiG-23, spewing smoke, crashed near Basra, inside Iraq. Huddled behind sandbags or in the ravaged interiors of buildings, the Iranians are conducting an incessant artillery duel with the enemy. Although Iraq held a long strip of Iranian territory (see map), the situation was different toward the north, where Iranian troops had penetrated some 18 miles into Iraq and surrounded the Kolus military base...
...half a decade, Bjorn Borg was beaten at Wimbledon, and a new champion, John McEnroe, was crowned. McEnroe, whose tantrums angered the crowds and, at one point, moved officials to threaten his expulsion from the tournament, beat Borg, 4-6, 7-6, 7-6, 6-4, in a tense duel that saw two sets determined by tie breakers. The only link to the past left intact was the dominance of Chris Evert Lloyd. She won her third Wimbledon title by unnerving and outplaying Hana Mandlikova, the most gifted young player in a generation...
...second game, Impagliazzo and Greg Brown hooked up in a pitchers' duel that settled in at 2-1. Yale, after both sides scored in the fourth. Neither team put together a rally again, but in the top of the seventh Yale got a two-out double from Darling--who is also on of the EIBL's finer hitters--and football star Rich Diana rode a Brown fast ball over the right-center field fence for a two-run shot. Impagliazzo set the Crimson down 1-2-3 to seal the sweep...