Word: inning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BOSTON--Mike Witt pitched a five-hitter and the California Angels jolted Boston ace Roger Clemens for four runs in the second inning last night to beat the Red Sox, 8-1, in the first game of the American League playoffs...
Clemens, the most dominant pitcher in baseballthis season with a 24-4 record--including a 3-0mark against the Angels--came out throwing hardwith fastballs exceeding 95 m.p.h. He escaped atwo-on, two-out jam in the first inning byretiring Doug DeCinces on a drive to thecenter-field wall, and opened the second by easilystriking out Rob Wilfong and Dick Schofield...
Ruppert Jones followed with a line single upthe middle and rookie Wally Joyner, who haddoubled in the first inning, sliced an RBI doubleinto the left-field corner that made it 2-0,California...
...gone an incredible six-for-six in the series finale, the Yankee first baseman would have beaten Boggs. One can only wonder how fast the pain in Boggs' hamstring would have gone away if Mattingly had been five-for-five going into the ninth inning...
Former Harvard hurler Jeff Musselman '85 addedsome local color when he became Toronto's fourthpitcher in the fourth inning. Musselman gave up noruns in two-and-a-third innings of work...