Word: homerically
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George Brett last night provided all the fireworks needed to end the New York Yankees season. His three-run homer in the seventh inning catapulted Kansas City to a 4-2 win, culminating a three-game sweep of the Yankees and capturing the first pennant ever for the Royals...
...deep George Brett homer in the seventh, and a Willie Wilson two-run double in the eighth completed the scoring...
PHILADELPHIA--Greg Luzinski, battling a near-season-long slump, hammered a two-run homer that carried the Philadelphia Phillies to a 3-1 victory over Houston in Tuesday night's opening game of the 1980 National League Championship series...
Forsch had been locked in a tight duel with Steve Carlton, ace of the Phillies' staff, but after Luzinski's homer gave Philadelphia the lead, it fell to relief ace Tug McGraw to nail down the victory...
...Friday night was quiet. Fifty thousand fans filed out of Olympic Stadium, victims of a one-man wrecking crew named Mike Schmidt. The Philadelphia slugger had knocked home both runs of a 2-1 victory, one with a sacrifice fly and one with a homer. Frank Edwin "Tug" McGraw, an erratic, lefthanded screwballer who had singlehandedly willed the New York Mets to the National League pennant in 1973, came on to strike out five men in relief, and suddenly the Expos were one game en arriere and one game away from elimination...