Word: inning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MILWAUKEE, Oct. 1--Billy Bruton stroked a line drive single to right against fireballing Ryne Duren to give Milwaukee's Warren Spahn a 4-3 victory over the New York Yankees today in a tense 10-inning opening World Series game...
Williams' homer, a bases-empty blast in the seventh inning and his twenty-sixth of the season, broke a 4-4 tie and pushed the Red Sox to a 6-4 victory over the Washington Senators and sewed up third place for the Boston Club...
...Pearl Harbor 11-5 as Torres pitched a one-hitter, then whipped Connecticut's Darien team 11-5. In the finals against Kankakee, Ill., Torres got plenty of early batting support. Andrés Galvan, the 65-lb. shortstop, homered over the center-field fence in the second inning, and Monterrey had six runs before Kankakee even got a base runner. Torres had a no-hitter for four innings, a shutout for five. Backed by four homers, he struck out eleven in the six-inning game, coasted to a 10-1 victory. The world champs trooped happily...
...Yankees trailed Detroit 5-4 in the seventh inning one day last week, and to hold the Tigers in check until his pennant-bound New Yorkers could score some more runs, Manager Casey Stengel knew just the man he needed. In from the Briggs Stadium bullpen strode Rinold George Duren. the 29-year-old righthander who is baseball's hottest relief pitcher...
Such heart-stopping heroics have won the Giants 16 last-inning victories this season (six of them since July 4), and made last year's ragtag New Yorkers the darlings of San Francisco. Some 800,000 San Franciscans had crowded into tiny (capacity: 23,144) Seals Stadium to watch their heroes (more than the team drew all season in New York). At week's end they cheered frenziedly as the Giants whipped the Pittsburgh Pirates and barged boldly past the Milwaukee Braves into first place...