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People, not numbers, play baseball, the Dodgers proved again. What folly to explain the game's latest outlandish finding in figures like the Oakland batting average and the Los Angeles ERA, when everyone who watched the World Series knows that Kirk Gibson and Orel Hershiser cannot be explained any more than Mickey Hatcher can be believed...
Last Jan. 22, arbitrator Thomas Roberts made seven players from the first collusion case free agents. Kirk Gibson was the only one to switch teams, signing a three-year, $4.5-million contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers...
...play-off snapshots are of Hernandez swimming to third base and drowning a foot from shore, of Los Angeles outfielder Kirk Gibson limping out the grand home runs on a frayed leg injected with cortisone (in the spirit of the times, a steroid; "It's amazing what drugs can do," he said), or of National League president A. Bartlett Giamatti sniffing Dodger relief pitcher Jay Howell's glove for pine tar or caramel ("I felt there could be some amelioration by me," said Giamatti, sounding like Casey Stengel). But the memory is of Jefferies botching a bunt, booting a double...
...Dodgers ended a streak of 13 consecutive victories by the home team in the World Series. They did it the hard way, with top hitters Kirk Gibson and Mike Marshall unable to start because of injuries and catcher Mike Scioscia forced to leave with a twisted right knee in the fourth inning...
...Kirk Gibson, the Dodgers' pinch hitter deluxe in the Series' opener, was not employed this time, even though Los Angeles was at the bottom of its batting order...