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...last big push, the injuries came along. Burleson. Hobson. Scott. Yaz. Evans. Remy...
Carlton Fisk, despite a variety of minor pains, started all but eight games this year, something that no other catcher has ever done, anywhere. Butch Hobson led the league in errors, trying desperately to play in spite of his aching elbow. He couldn't bring himself to sit out, and Zimmer didn't have the courage to take him out--for Hobson's sake, as well as for the team...
...Butch Hobson and George Scott killed the rally with a pop-up and a swinging third strike, though; and the whole mad season came down to Gossage versus the heart of the Red Sox lineup in the bottom of the ninth...
...Butch Hobson contributed to the onpour with two doubles and a single. Scott, Burleson, Remy and Fisk combined their singles for two runs. And it all came down with a grunt in the eighth, when Fisk walked, Yaz singled, and Lynn tripled off the left field wall for two runs. Hobson's long single off the center field wall in that inning brought in two more. All told, the Sox banged out 16 hits...
...Right now the team's playing good defense because I'm not there," injured third baseman Butch Hobson said. Hobson, who leads the league in errors, said last weekend he could no longer throw, due to the painful bone chips in his right elbow. Hobson slumped on his chair in the culbhouse for an hour, gazing at a hunting magazine. He said dejectedly, "There are no errors 'cause I'm not there, but that's the way it's gotta be when you get down to the nitty gritty...