Word: griches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...swing left in the season he managed to block out a mortal fear of failure. "We fail most of the time." Though the Angels tied the game in the bottom of the ninth and still had the bases loaded with only one out, Third Baseman Doug DeCinces and then Grich faltered in the clutch. After a couple of innings of outfielders' banging walls like cymbals clashing, Henderson's sacrifice fly finally and fittingly won. "I got no place to sleep tonight," Mauch said numbly. "I bet my house that DeCinces would get that run in from third...
...eleventh-inning exchange that recalled Pete Rose, Carlton Fisk and the 1975 Cincinnati-Boston World Series, Angel Bobby Grich whispered to Old Teammate Don Baylor, "What do you think, Groove...
...whirled around Henderson, 28, a spare outfielder whom Boston rescued from Seattle last August after five uneventful seasons with the Mariners. He got into the game in the fifth inning only because regular Centerfielder Tony Armas went lame. Reaching for a Grich liner just below the top of the fence in the sixth, Henderson unwittingly boosted it over the wall to give California a one-run lead that became three by the ninth. Twenty-five-year Manager Gene Mauch, 60, the longest and saddest presider in the game, appeared to be on the brink of a smile. "My emotions have...
...staggers in Boston, took California Pitcher Don Sutton, 41, back to his root-beer days. "The last time I saw a game like this," he said wistfully, "the coach wouldn't take us to the Tastee-Freez." Ground balls were lost in the sun, popups in the shadows, but Grich looked the most misplaced of all, blaming Third Base Coach Moose Stubing too savagely for botching a signal. Grich remains spry enough at 37 to lash game-winning hits, but he had grown too old for baseball and after the last out retired...
...California Angels do have a funny way of looking at youth. Don Sutton, 41, still pitches. Bob Boone, 38, still catches. From Pitcher Ken Forsch, 39, to Second Baseman Bobby Grich, 37, one could go on for quite a while in this varicose vein. But it is probably enough to say that Jimmie Reese, the Angels' "conditioning coach," is 80 and used to room with Babe Ruth. And the designated hitter, Reggie Jackson, has just turned...