Word: inning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...WHAT IT DIDN'T DEserve. Namely, baseball. A season that began with 48-year-old Pedro Borbon Sr. wheezing and falling off the mound as a replacement pitcher ended with a glorious World Series in which 27-year-old Pedro Borbon Jr. was warming up in the ninth inning for the world champion Atlanta Braves. A season that at first seemed too short because of its 144-game schedule provided fans with too many memories. Forget the owners, forget the union activists, forget the Baseball Network, whatever that was. Remember that the game, if left alone long enough, can restore...
...Here in Boston, when the Celtics are playing, you don't leave at half-time," he said. "And when the Red Sox are playing you don't leave after the fifth inning...
...last night's game two of the World Series, a young 24-year-old catcher beat the Indians with his bat, then his arm. Javy Lopez, Atlanta's slender catcher, smashed a two-run home run off right-hander Dennis Martinez with one out in the sixth inning to give the Braves a two run lead, which effectively put the Indians' backs against the wall. Two innings later, it was Lopez again, picking off Manny Ramirez at first base. It was then up to Braves closer Mark Wohlers to bring it home, which he did, giving up only...
Jones ended game one against the expansion representative Colorado Rockies with a ninth-inning homer...
...game two, pinch-hitting Mordecai scaled the Rockies in the ninth-inning of game two with a game-winning...