Word: fenway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the battle-weary Red Sox captain popped out with two on and two out in a first-of-a-kind one-game playoff for the A.L. East crown at Fenway Park, the New York Yankees had won one of the classic games of baseball history...
...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...
That, of course, and New York relief pitcher Rich Gossage's out-dueling of Boston captain Carl Yastrzemski. For when Gossage popped up Yastrzemski with two out in the ninth at Fenway yesterday afternoon, the Yankees had taken the onegame playoff for the American League East crown in dramatic fashion...
...York 3, Boston 2: and in the amount of time it takes to say "Joe Dimaggio," the Fenway fans' visions of dancing in the streets that night had been abruptly subdued...
...lyric Fenway came abuzz in the bottom of the eighth, as Remy ripped a double off "The Goose"; and then Yaz singled; and then Carlton Fisk singled; and then Fred Lynn did too. The gap had closed to 5-4 with just one out, and it seemed as though there might, indeed, be some joy in Mudville tonight...