Word: finally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...successful starting rotation in all of baseball, the Orioles suddenly found themselves outmanned on the mound by a ragtag collection of starting relievers, relieving starters and the ubiquitous Tekulve, who iced the last two Pi rate wins by facing 15 batters and giving up just one single. In the final three games, Baltimore scored only two runs, while Pittsburgh mowed down Baltimore's best...
Mike Flanagan (23-9) was beaten 7-1 in the fifth game, three-time Cy Young Winner Jim Palmer lost 4-0 in the sixth, and Scott McGregor (13-6) was beaten in the final game 4-1. Over that span, Baltimore managed 17 hits, but seldom at the right time. The Orioles had a chance to salvage the Series in the last game when they loaded the bases in the eighth inning; not a run scored...
Through it all, there was Stargell. He knocked home four runs in the Pirates' decisive three-game streak, and in the final contest hit a single, two doubles and the towering two-run homer that guaranteed the champagne. When it was over, the slugger who has hit 464 home runs in his 18-year major league career considered his moment and deemed another day happier still. "When I signed with the Pirates in 1959," said Pops, the man who still plays ball for fun two decades later, "they gave me a $1,500 bonus and $175 a month...
...Eight, a dance of death between a married man (Laurence Luckinbill) and his jilted lover (Mary Beth Hurt), the story's psycho logical suspense is gutted by a string of clumsy nightmare and flashback sequences. Were it not for the fine, anguished performances of Murphy and Hurt, the final two shows would have no more meaning or passion than the first. Even so, they are not powerful enough...
...Music illuminates a person through and through, and it is also his last hope and final refuge. And even half-mad Stalin, a beast and a butcher, instinctively sensed that about music. That's why he feared and hated...