Word: innings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dave Lopes proved the claims behind his "deceptive" power when the L.A. second baseman cracked a two-run homer to deep center field in the fourth to up the margin to five, and Ron Cey made it 7-1 the following inning when his base hit to right scored Garvey after the Golden Boy had tripled...
Monday night it was the Yankees who pounded out 16 hits en route to a 7-1 triumph, but yesterday the tide shifted the other way, with the Royals creaming 16 hits, chasing New York starter and loser Ed Figueroa in the second inning...
...Royals picked up a run in the first on singles by George Brett (2-for-5) and Amos Otis (3-for-5, 1 RBI) and a Darrel Porter sacrifice. In the second inning, though, they broke the game open, scoring four runs on five hits and a bizarre error by Yankee shortstop Bucky Dent, who hit Clint Hurdle in the back while trying to throw him out at third...
Good defense by the New York infield and solid pitching by cap-tugger Tidrow kept the Royals in check at 5-0 until the deciding seventh inning...
...Dent, the man who made thousands of Bostonians miserable on Monday, lined a single to right, collecting two of his three RBIs. When Mickey Rivers followed with yet another single, Royals manager Whitey Herzog yanked Gura in favor of 35-year-old Marty Pattin, who struggled out of the inning...