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Dusty Baker bagan the scoring barrage off Yankee starter Ed Figueroa with a home run to lead off the Dodger second. Then, with two outs and Rick Monday on third, Davey Lopes hit the first of this two homers, to make the score...
...ANGELES--New York Yankees Manager Bob Lemon named Ed Figueroa, 20-9, as his starting pitcher and said Reggie Jackson would be the designated hitter for Turesday's first game of the best of seven 1978 World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers...
Monday night it was the Yankees who pounded out 16 hits en route to a 7-1 triumph, but yesterday the tide shifted the other way, with the Royals creaming 16 hits, chasing New York starter and loser Ed Figueroa in the second inning...
...Figueroa, who had been having trouble getting his breaking stuff over, then came completely unstrung, giving up a two-run single to light-hitting Frank White. That blow made the score 5-0 and sent "Senor Stopper" to the showers...
Unfortunately for the Yanks, they won't start either Ron Guidry (15-1) or Ed Figueroa (10-7) against the Sox, but they have been playing much better of late, making up half of the one-time 14-game deficit. Make no mistake about it; there will be a pennant race. Sorry, greedy fans, no runaways here...