Word: infielder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...baseball diamond, its infield covered with gravel and stone dust, is not Koehan's major concern...
...ought to be more aggressive." For the Reds, lack of aggression meant stealing only one base. A seamless defense purloined potential Yankee hits, and strong Red arms kept New York base runners back on their heels. Outfielders George Foster, Cesar Geronimo and Ken Griffey fired balls back to the infield so quickly and so accurately that no Yankee was able to stretch a base hit. The pattern of the Series had emerged: the Yankees stopped at third...
...first inning of the first game, Joe Morgan proclaimed his presence by hitting a home run. In the second inning, Lou Piniella of the Yankees doubled to right and took third on an infield out. Piniella assumed a modest lead. Bench fired a pick-off throw to Pete Rose. Piniella was safe by a millimeter. Now the Yankees had seen Johnny Bench's arm. With one out in the sixth, Mickey Rivers, the speed of the Yankees, reached first. He tried to steal and Morgan was a shade slow covering second. Bench started to throw. He held the ball...
Base-hit bleeders, bad hops in the infield, and rare errors by Joe Morgan and Dave Conception paved a yellow brick basepath early for the Yankees. However, the best the Bronx Bombers could manage were two scattered runs in the first and fifth innings on clutch hits by Chris Chambliss and Thurman Munson...
...infield, the Reds have a slight edge. Chris Chambliss, who missed his calling in pro football, batted about .290 this year and had nearly 20 homers. Tony Perez, for the Reds, batted in the .260 range but with about five more round trippers than Chambliss...