Word: inning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second straight day at Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium the Pirates and Reds finished nine innings of baseball tied, 2-2. And for the second straight day, Pittsburgh came out a winner, this time on a 10th inning Dave Parker single. And suddenly, with the prospect of playing the remaining games in this best of five series in Pittsburgh, and with just one loss between them and elimination, the Reds have their collective backs to the wall...
...Robinson, who had saved the Pirates 5-2 11-inning victory Tuesday night, clinched the victory as he retired the Reds in order in the bottom of the tenth...
Willie Stargell clubbed a three-run homer in the top of the eleventh inning to give the Pittsburgh Pirates a 5-2 victory over the Cincinatti Reds in the opening game of the National League playoffs in Cincinatti last night...
Back at the ballgame, they've turned up the static again, and the crowd is getting ugly. The Red Sox are down 1-0 following a big Toronto third inning, which is to say as big as Toronto third innings ever get. The static continues, louder--it's like that night Elvis Costello cleared out an unsimpatico crowd by telling his roadies to turn up the white noise...
...found progenitive capacity and the spirit of hopeful spring, the Sox rally to tie it in the sixth. Dwyer hits a double, Allenson a single. Sizemore hits what looks like a sure double-play ball, but Allenson comes into the keystone like a cruise missile. Dwyer scores. Bang. An inning later Butch Hobson hits his 28th homer over the Green Monster with Fisk on base. It looks like the game is on ice, except that Don Zimmer has decided to unleash the awesome firepower of the Red Sox bullpen. Soon somebody named Rick Bosetti is trotting around the circuit...