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Wayne Gross slammed a three-run homer and Mike Norris hurled a four-hitter as the Oakland A's blanked the Kansas City Royals 4-0, in the first game of the American League West division playoffs yesterday in Kansas City...
Gross--a .206 hitter on the year--blasted a 2-1 Dennis Leonard fastball over the right-field fence in the fourth after George Brett's throwing error kept the inning alive...
Rich Gedman drove in three runs with a homer and a grounder, Dave Stapleton lined two bases-empty homers, and Mike Torrez and Mark Clear combined on a five-hitter, leading the Boston Red Sox to a 7-2 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers last night. The Sox are now in third place, a game behind the first-place Tigers, in the make-believe pennant race...
...also a classic match-up of dissimilar fighting styles: Leonard the boxer, elegant, fast, an artist who can devise dazzling combinations for every contingency; and Hearns the slugger, a tall (6 ft. 1 in., vs. Leonard's 5 ft. 10 in.) and haughty hitter who uses a preternatural 78-in. reach to keep trouble at bay until he can lower the boom. Each man had earned a welterweight (141 to 147 Ibs.) championship belt: Leonard from the World Boxing Council (WBC), Hearns from the World Boxing Association (WBA). So when it was over, halfway through the 14th round...
Brad Stinn. Of all people. That's what his teammates and coaches say. Hardest hitter on the team. Toughest competitor. Loves the game. Loves to win. Jim Callinan, the senior fullback who has played with Stinn through four years of college and four years at St. Ignatius High School in Cleveland, said, "The way Brad plays, you know it might have happened--he's all out, all the time...