Word: inning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Toby Harrah stole second in the third inning, and went on to third when Burleson bobbled a slowly hit Norris grounder. Bonds whiffed again, though, and the Tribe scare was over...
...lights were on by the second inning, the field was soggy, and Jack Brohamer was at third, but it was opening day all the same yesterday and the Red Sox planted some hope in the hearts of their nervous followers with a 7-1 pasting of the Cleveland Indians...
...Rice, who stroked a Rick Wise slider into the screen for three third-inning runs, Dwight Evans and Fred Lynn provided Boston's wallop, and Dennis Eckersley kept the Tribe subdued with seven innings of two-hit pitching...
Lynn's seventh inning homer rounded out the Sox scoring, but Yaz gave the Red Sox fans their final moment of emotion in the game. The captain, who began the game the same way he ended last year's play off with the Yanks by flying out to the third baseman, blasted a smoking base-hit into center field in the seventh...
...games and compiling an earned run average of 2.01, impressive figures attained by totally unsubtle yet highly effective means: throwing a baseball at better than 95 m.p.h. Facing the Dodgers, Gossage retired six hitters of his own. The Yankees finally got their bats around on Welch in the tenth inning, winning 4-3 on Lou Piniella's opposite-field single. With New York and Los Angeles tied at two games each, the 1978 World Series began all over again...