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...second day in a row, rain washed out the crucial matchup between the Sox and the New York Yankees, draining away virtually all hope the Baltimore Orioles had of catching the Fenway front-runners. By virtue of the two day long cloudburst, the Red Sox evaded a confrontation with 22 game winner Catfish Hunter, who will now move on with his Yankee teammates to face the Orioles tomorrow night...
...rundown and froze for an instant, panic on his face, Scully said, "he looks like a rabbit caught in a set of headlights." And Scully used binoculars to read lips during arguments with umpires. So you always bring a radio to Dodger Stadium (something considered mildly sacreligious in the Fenway Park bleachers...
...Dodger fan in Boston, unlike the Yankee or Ranger or Oriole fan, can't even see his team play in Fenway Park from time to time. The Dodgers only pass over New England, occasionally, as they fly between New York and Montreal. You see them on NBC's "Game of the Week" every so often, but never without Joe Garagiola or someone saying. "Well, the Dodgers won't win it this year, but they sure are an exciting team." Small consolation...
PROBABLY the only thing to do is stay on the case--buy Dodger pennants from the Souvenir shop across from Fenway Park, call the Globe sports recording at 2 a.m. to get the scores you won't find in the morning paper, and always remember, as the Sox stroke and the Dodgers choke, that baseball is as stupid game of no consequences...
...when most is forgotten and the boys are a bunch of heros again. That Freddy Lynn, by god, he's a natural--haven't seen a swing like that since Ted Williams...and Pudge Fisk is back and better than ever. The passion is for a pennant and in Fenway a lot of Boston gets together and tries to find something in their city they don't have to hate each other about. This energy focused on 27 men, technically: technically because some of these "men" would be seniors here had they gone to Harvard (and only a sparse handful...