Word: inning
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Harvard Yard might be the only place in the Boston area where New Yorkers could safely celebrate the Mets 10th inning, do-or-die victory over the Red Sox in the sixth game of the World Series. Safely ensconsed inside the University gates, a crowd of Yardlings sang in triumph after a Bill Buckner error allowed the Mets a come-from-behind victory...
...year is just an instant in baseball, but an inning is a long time ago, and before anyone could finish gulping or sighing, the World Series was on. If the New York Mets and Boston Red Sox take most of this week to realize where they are, it is because playoffs can hang in the air as improbably as homers off the bat of Lenny Dykstra or the glove of Dave Henderson, and neither the National nor American leagues had ever seen such playoffs...
Besides poetry, there was symmetry. Every dropped shoe seemed to have a mate. With the bases loaded in the ninth inning, Boston's irresistible young relief pitcher, Calvin Schiraldi, was one strike from holding off the California Angels, when he plunked their immovable old leftfielder, Brian Downing, on the hip. Two extra innings later, California took a 3-game-to-1 lead and Schiraldi a seat in the dugout with his face in a towel and his profile in a tableau. But the very next day he retired Downing for the final out of the most remarkable game almost anyone...
...eleventh-inning exchange that recalled Pete Rose, Carlton Fisk and the 1975 Cincinnati-Boston World Series, Angel Bobby Grich whispered to Old Teammate Don Baylor, "What do you think, Groove...
...whirled around Henderson, 28, a spare outfielder whom Boston rescued from Seattle last August after five uneventful seasons with the Mariners. He got into the game in the fifth inning only because regular Centerfielder Tony Armas went lame. Reaching for a Grich liner just below the top of the fence in the sixth, Henderson unwittingly boosted it over the wall to give California a one-run lead that became three by the ninth. Twenty-five-year Manager Gene Mauch, 60, the longest and saddest presider in the game, appeared to be on the brink of a smile. "My emotions have...