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Thanks to Yastrzemski's three-run homer, Lonborg took a comfortable 5-0 lead to the mound in the eighth. The buzzing in Fenway rose to cheering when Tim McCarver hit an easy dribbler to Adair at second. After shortstop Rico Petrocelli swept up Mike Shannon's grounder, the cheer mounted to a high- pitch scream. Lonborg sthood just four outs away from pitching the second World Series no-hitter in baseball history...
...Louis second baseman Julian Javier banged a single to center, the sixth of the Card's ten hits, and went to second on an infield out. After Gibson whiffed, the ever-present Brock slapped a grounder into left...
Maris drove in both St. Louis runs. He rescued Brock in the third on an infield roller. And in the seventh, after the fleet Brock had gotten his fourth straight hit, stolen his second base (when Russ Gibson's throw was slightly high) and gone to third on a grounder, Maris came through again...
Kaat's reliever, Perry hung on for two innings, but in the fifth, after the Red Sox had scored one run, the pitcher failed to cover first on a sharp grounder by Yastrzemski and Boston went ahead...
Minnesota tied the game, and then it happened again. With one man on, one out in the seventh, the crumpled Adair pushed a grounder to the mound, leveling the screams begging for a rally. Versalles moved easily towards second to make the double play--when confidence gave way to fragility. He dropped the ball, and runners were safe all around. Yazstrzemski whirled the bats about and hit a home run, a slow elegant home run which drew us after it in an orgasm of sound and motion...