Word: gura
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Dates: during 1978-1978
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...last in the league in fielding. Still, the Kansas City defense was strongest where it was the most important: on the pitching mound. The Royals have a trio of aces on their staff: Righthander Dennis Leonard (21-17), Lefthander Paul Splittorff (19-13), and then there is Larry Gura; the southpaw whom Manager Billy Martin dismissed from the Yankees in 1976 as a "loser." Joining the Royals, Gura ate a lot, took up weight training and boosted his heft from 170 to 188 Ibs. Nowadays, with a record of 16-4, he does not fade in the late innings...
...Larry Gura, the former Yankee hurler, did not look particularly overwhelming on the mound, giving up ten hits in seven-plus frames, but he managed to scatter the hits widely enough to keep the New York sluggers at bay until late in the game...
Meanwhile, the Yankees kept blowing opportunities to score against Gura (16-4 on the year). Dent and Munson grounded into double plays to kill potential rallies in the second and third innings, and going into the seventh frame the World Champs had but four hits and no runs...
...followed with an identical poke. Pinch hitter "Heathcliff" Johnson grounded out to second, but Dent, the man who made thousands of Bostonians miserable on Monday, lined a single to right, collecting two of his three RBIs. When Mickey Rivers followed with yet another single, Royals manager Whitey Herzog yanked Gura in favor of 35-year-old Marty Pattin, who struggled out of the inning...