Word: home-run
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Harvard collected 11 hits off right hander Bruce Villenenve. including a ninth inning home-run by Dan DeMichele but the sidearm specialist stranded 13 Harvard runners...
...game with the San Diego Padres, Banks swung at an inside pitch and, as he likes to put it, "Swoosh! Swoooosh! Suh-woooosh!" It was a home run into the leftfield bleachers. With that hit, Banks became the 17th player in baseball history to drive in 1,500 or more runs. Last week Ernie belted the 480th homer of his career (he is tenth on the list of alltime home-run hitters, just ahead of Stan Musial) and a double against the Los Angeles Dodgers to take over the league lead in RBIs...
Back trouble and a proclivity for serving up home-run balls kept Denny a so-so pitcher for the next two years. Then, in mid-June of 1965, he was called in from the bullpen to relieve against the Boston Red Sox. McLain suddenly found what he calls "my rhythm, my groove." He struck out seven straight hitters to tie an American League record. He went on to win eight games in a row, and wound up the year with a mark...
...baseball's oldest maxims holds that hitters can't pitch and pitchers can't hit. The New York Yankees' Babe Ruth was a magnificent exception, a star pitcher (lifetime record: 94-46) long before he became the greatest home-run hitter in history. One afternoon last week, the Yanks produced another rule breaker: Outfielder Rocky Colavito, 35, the former Cleveland Indian slugger (TIME cover, Aug. 24, 1959) recently signed by New York...
...harmless double in the sixth, and was taken out of the game in the seventh with 2⅔ scoreless innings to his credit. By then the Yanks had six runs of their own. They went on to win, giving Colavito, who ranks 15th among the all-time home-run hitters (372), his first major-league pitching victory. Rocky the Reliever is more than likely to appear again. Says Manager Houk: "He did a real fine job for us. I'd like to use him some more." Why not? The unknockable Rock still sports a career...