Word: homerun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...guess I'm a little lucky," Trammell said after his two-run homerun off Smith with two outs in the 10th inning gave the Detroit Tigers a 5-3 victory over the Red Sox in the first game of the 1988 season...
...never seen him before and I hit a homerun off him," Trammell said. "I got the good part of the bat on the ball and it went...
Boston manager John McNamara said, "We played decently." But the Sox skipper disagreed with Smith on the homerun pitch. "He just got the ball up to Trammell," McNamara said...
Bill "Whoops" Buckner, Dave Henderson (of dramatic homerun fame), and Kangeroo Court judge Don Baylor were all recently traded to make way for the youth movement at Fenway, but this is pretty much the same bunch of guys who came within one strike from winning a World Series last year...
...remember his monstrous homer two years ago in St. Louis off of John Tudor in extra innings to keep the Mets in the Pennant race. Or his homer in Game Seven of the 1986 World Series? Last year, Strawberry had 27 regular-season round-trippers and finished third in homerun ratio (he had 5.68 homeruns for every 100 at bats). The Phillips's Mike Schmidt finished, but can you name the other slugger who topped Strawberry's mark...