Word: infielder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pirates have averaged more than 12 hits in each of five games, but have not capitalized with timely hitting. Erratic infield play has also hurt them...
Neither team scored until the sixth inning, when Baltimore's Rich Dauer hit into an infield double play that scored Gary Roenicke, who had doubled and advanced to third on a single...
Pirate catcher Ott beat out an infield hit with two out to start the winning rally. He moved to 2nd when Phil Garner walked. Sanguillen then banged the game-winning and series-tying hit, while pinch-hitting for winning pitcher Don Robinson...
...bottom of the 9th, sidearm relief ace Kent Tekulve saved the win, fanning Rick Dempsey and Kike Garcia and retiring Al Bumbry on an infield grounder...
...that I never had been exposed to the "thrill" of Fenway? The Green Monster, Fenway Franks, bleacher anarchy, unrestrained fans, and nearly as much tradition as in The Big Apple? For a while I was scared. But when I finally entered the Park and gazed over the infield, I realized that I was intimidated by all these people who were--unanimously--more partial to the Red Sox than I was to the Bronx Bombers. I was overtaken by the emotional arrogance these people generated. All this and I had just seen my first pitch delivered...