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...game with a home run." Phase II came after the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles in 1958 and had to rely on speed and pitching to make up for their gradual loss of gun power. A typical Dodger "big inning" then consisted of Maury Wills beating out an infield hit, stealing second, advancing to third on a ground out and finally scoring on a sacrifice fly. With fireballers like Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale holding forth on the mound, that one run was often enough...
...point in last week's disastrous Indianapolis 500, one of the thousands of sodden revelers camped out in the axle-deep infield mud aptly summed up the utter madness of it all. Asked what he thought of the world's largest, richest and costliest racing event, he said: "What race...
...skill. Neither is true. Rather, the Indy has become a vast ritual of the auto culture, with violence and increasing speed goals as the icons. Some 300,000 spectators show up, many of them having traveled long distances for the chance to wheel their cars and campers into the infield, break out the barbecues and beer coolers, and join a kind of high-octane happening. Others pay up to $40 a ticket knowing that they will watch more of an attrition process than a race, that most drivers will never finish the 200 laps, that crackups are virtually certain...
...those close calls, as Sciolla slid in just as the throw came in from the red-masked catcher Bill Ryan. The umpire called him safe and the Minuteman infield called the ump blind. Obviously, Sciolla remained right there at the bag. Have you ever seen an umpire change his call...
Sandy Miley singled, stole second and third and scored on an infield out in the first to give Nilson the only run he needed. Nils also helped himself out at the plate as he drove in two runs in the five-run fourth inning to put the game out of reach...