Word: hitter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Welch, the classy flame-thrower who almost single-handedly put Los Angeles back in the pennant race in the heat of the summer, chucked his aspiring balls for 3 2/3 innings of no-hit ball until pinch-hitter Jerry Martin touched him for the Phils' only four-bagger in the last half of the ninth...
Chris Chambliss (4-for-4, 1 RBI) lined a single to right, and Roy White 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...
When Beattie walked Amos Otis and Pete LaCock to load the bases, Yankee manager Bob Lemon went to his star-studded bullpen and came up with the untested Clay. Clay allowed a run-scoring sacrifice fly to Royal designated hitter Hal McRae and then went on to no-hit the A.L. West champs for the rest of the game...
Torrez struck out Tnurman Munson, the toughest clutch hitter in the game, three times in the first six frames, twice with Mickey Rivers in scoring position...
Detroit starter Kip Young also threw a tough game--a three-hitter, in fact--but there was one difference, and that was Jim Rice...