Word: inning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another ardent Sox supporter, Peter R. Kagan'90 left in the fourth inning to play intramuralbasketball, toting along his portable T.V. set. Hereturned in the seventh inning, slamming down theset and declaring "Give me a brew. I need to drownmy sorrows...
...Knight ignited a three-run rally in the seventh inning with a home run, climaxing another New York comeback and sending the Mets to their second World Series championship with a 8-5 victory last night over the Boston...
...Mets scored three runs in the sixth inning, two on a single by Keith Hernandez, to chase Bruce Hurst, winner of two Series games, and tie the score 3-3. Then Knight led off the seventh with a homer to left-center that started the Mets to their first World Series title since...
...Mets were blessed to be alive. The best team in baseball, self-appointed, batted .189 and struck out 57 times. Split-Fingered Fast-Baller Mike Scott dismayed the Mets twice; all they could do with Scott was collect allegedly scuffed baseballs and cry to the press. Dykstra's ninth-inning homer saved a third loss, and Umpire Fred Brocklander's mistaken out call at first base forestalled a fourth. Houston's essential run was lost. Slumping Catcher Gary Carter eventually won that one in the twelfth inning with a flash single off flamboyant Reliever Charlie Kerfeld, who had given Carter...
...oddest year, where the playoff victims are actually mourned and remembered. Because of a mysterious leg infection, possibly from a spider bite, the Angels were deprived of their best player, Rookie First Baseman Wally Joyner, for the three straight losses. Confounded only by the ump in a nine-inning two-hitter, Nolan Ryan struck out twelve Mets not just with an aching elbow but for four innings on a sprained ankle. "A lot goes into getting you this far," Ryan said, "and so little keeps you from going farther...