Word: inning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eventually, a bountiful, if not precisely beautiful, 6-5 game came along, leaving one for the title promising everything to everyone. Two runs ahead with an out to victory in the tenth inning, Boston mined 68 years of unthinkable disaster in the shape of infinite singles and First Baseman Bill Buckner's all-time error. For their part, having fallen behind 2-0 and 3-2 in games, the Mets lost some of their hauteur and most of their breath. "I don't care anymore," Third Baseman Ray Knight said, "if we're compared with the 1927 New York Yankees...
...symbols of play-off miracles, kept it up through six games, until Hurst began sending Dykstra back to earth swinging and stamping his feet. Several centuries ago, the Sox were down to Henderson's last swing in California, and in the sixth game the Mets' turnaround wasted his tenth-inning homer that might have won. "I'm not going to stop and think about it," he had said. "I'm going to keep riding the train." Somebody was bound for glory...
...final game of their undefeated season, with their buffalo on the mound, Bifulco had us 1-0 into the bottom of the sixth and last inning. Happily, I was due up fourth in the inning, and I felt sure I would not be the one to make the last out. That is until Guy Olivieri chipped a grounder down the first base line that went for a triple...
Alas, computer simulations are never like the real game. Any hacker who writes a baseball program that would allow any team--two runs back in the bottom of the ninth inning with two outs and two strikes against the batter--to go on to victory would be called an idiot. Probability and statistics said the Mets were losers...
...score was 3-3, and the Mets' master ofno-decisions, Darling, was off the hook. Duringthe season, he had 13 decisionless starts and a15-6 record. He had pitched in two World Seriesgames with a 1-1 record, but he was out of thisone in the fourth inning after giving up three RedSox runs in the second...