Word: hurst
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...boots, "you don't know which way to limp." In the exquisite moment of game five, Buckner mounted just enough head-first slide to beach himself on home plate. It was hard to call that run unearned, but Mets errors had started again. Even though Red Sox Lefthander Bruce Hurst won his second sterling game, the first home crowd with anything to shout about gave its fullest voice to ridicul- ing the feeble bat and careless glove of New York's young outfielder Darryl Strawberry. He may answer for a while to raspberry...
...Young-elect Roger Clemens' near best was just not quite enough. Darling could test his dream one final time against Dennis ("Oil Can") Boyd. Dave Henderson and Lenny Dykstra, Boston's and New York's respective symbols of 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...
They had no business finishing higher than fourth in their division--and wouldn't have, had it not been for gutsy performances by players like Dwight Evans, Bill Buckner, Bruce Hurst and Roger Clemens...
...Bruce Hurst had already been selected series MVP. Marty Barrett had already been chosen the game's MVP. We who were watching on television had seen a graphic showing consumer prices in 1918, the last time the Red Sox were world champions...
...than Boston's winning percentage in games where they took big leads in to the ninth. Dwight Evans and Bill Buckner? Their defense in game six proved that they belong in the geriatric ward. Calvin Schiraldi? (I won't even answer that one.) Jim Rice? Did he play? Sure, Hurst and Barrett were good but hey--25 against 2 isn't quite fair...