Word: homers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...affection for Boston crept slowly apace until it blossomed in 1975, and I began to understand Boston pain. I watched the sixth game of the Series from a hotel room in Salt Lake City (no beer, not even before the seventh inning), and exulted in Fisk's homer with a glee unmatched since Bobby Thomson's for the Giants in 1951. I also watched, from the same room, the next afternoon as the Sox, in the finale, took a 3-0 lead into the sixth, and then blew...
...play-off miracles, kept it up through six games, until Hurst began sending Dykstra back to earth swinging and stamping his feet. Several centuries ago, the Sox were down to Henderson's last swing in California, and in the sixth game the Mets' turnaround wasted his tenth-inning homer that might have won. "I'm not going to stop and think about it," he had said. "I'm going to keep riding the train." Somebody was bound for glory...
Darryl Strawberry led off the eighth with a homer off Boston reliever Al Nipper. Orosco, batting for only the fourth time this season, singled in Knight with the eighth New York...
...Knight's homer came off Calvin Schiraldi, theloser in Game 6 who had come in to start theseventh for Hurst...
After Knight's homer, the 11th of the WorldSeries but the first by a home-team player, LennyDykstra came in to hit for Kevin Mitchell andsingled to right. Dykstra went to second on a wildpitch on a pitchout, and Rafael Santana singleddown the first-base line for another...