Word: innings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time of year when the baseball fan starts keeping careful track of the standings, when he notices burned leaves falling from the August trees, when he feels the night breeze in Fenway Park cool out with a spicy air. It is the season's seventh inning stretch, and fans who look at the scoreboard see the Red Sox juggernaut a full five games behind the Baltimore Orioles. The Yankees are trailing pathetically, 14 games behind Earl Weaver's quiet disciplined team...
Later on, in about the fifth inning, with the Cubs ahead, 3-1, the veteran oddsmaker denied the trend of the game, proudly announcing to all around that if the Cubs won, he would "strip on Michigan Avenue," the main street in downtown Chicago...
...bottom of the eighth inning, the spirit I wished did not exist had resurfaced. With the score now tied 4-4, Jim Rice reached first and Yaz walked to put men on first and second. Bob Watson then singled to right, driving in Rice and putting the Sox in the lead for the first time. The crowd erupted. A few seats behind me, a teenager set off a pack of firecrackers and was subsequently arrested by Fenway's overbearing security guards. It turned out that Watson's hit was all the Sox needed as they went...
...Whose 10th inning home run gave the Phillies the 1950 National League Pennant...
...only New York Giant to make an out in the ninth inning of that historic 1951 playoff game between the Giants and the Dodgers...