Word: inning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...West, those streaking Dodgers ran into Phil Niekro's knuckler as the Atlanta Braves eked out a 3-2 win. Shortstop Bill Russel's costly error allowed the Braves to score the decisive unearned game-winner in the fourth inning...
Dwight Evans singled in the fifth and moved to second on a Burleson sacrifice. Evans then came home on a Remy single. The same threesome teamed up in the seventh to bring Evans home again for a 3-0 lead before the Scott-sparked, eighth-inning breaker...
Larry Brown lost his only game of the year, 1-0 to Delaware in a rain-shortened six-inning game called after a six-hour rain delay. Brownie's 10-1 slate and second-in-the-nation ERA (just under 1.00) earned him third-team All-American honors, though. And lefty slugger Mike Stenhouse earned a berth on the first-team All-American squad for his record-busting year...
...give the Dodgers the league lead for the first time since May. Then the Giants fought back, winning a one-run game with a home run from Second Baseman Bill Madlock, a Dodger nemesis (he has a .342 career average against Los Angeles). The fourth game went into extra innings. The Giants stayed alive on a hit by aging Superstar Willie McCovey, indestructible and still explosive at 40, and carried to victory and a renewed fingernail grip on first place by a brand new hero, 22-year-old Born-Again Christian Rightfielder Jack Clark. Said Clark, after singling home...
...think he did the right thing for himself, if not for the Yanks. As for George, well, it is true that his dollars brought the Yankees back into contention. But now I would trade the great moments--Chambliss's homer to beat the Royals in '76, the fantastic ninth inning against the Royals to come form behind and move into the Series last year--for simple peace of mind. I wish now that Steinbrenner had bought the Cleveland Indians, as he had originally intended. I wish he had stocked, and then screwed up, somebody else's team. Winning under...