Word: inning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bucs scored all the runs they needed in the top of the sixth inning when series star Willie Stargell followed Bill Robinson's single with a towering drive to leftfield for a two-run homer off the south-paw starter Scotty McGregor...
...season long, it seemed like we never could win a ball game the easy way," Pittsburgh Pirates Second Baseman Phil Garner said after a tenth-inning victory over the Cincinnati Reds in the second game of the National League championship playoff. He frowned, pursed his lips in remembrance of a grueling pennant race that was not decided until the season's final day, then broke into a grin. "But my, how time flies when you're having...
...pennant punctuated by the psyching-up war whoops of All-Star Rightfielder Dave Parker, the ego-deflating insults of Garner and the popping of corks by Team Captain Stargell, the oenophile first baseman. Typical play: a Pirate crashes a three-run home run to win an eleven-inning game. Typical congratulatory byplay: "Way to go, [bleep]!" "Thank you, [bleep]!" Other teams may deem it necessary to fine players to ensure promptness at the ballpark; the Pittsburgh locker room throbs with athletes joining the badinage hours before game time. The party does not end at the door. Pirate pitchers have been...
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...
Pittsburgh retaliated in the bottom half of the inning, when two singles, a walk and two sacrifices produced two runs and a lead the Bues never relinquished...