Word: lead-off
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...real story in the second game, though, was the Crimson bats that came alive to produce 16 runs. Lead-off man Tony DiCesare got things going for Harvard in the first with a single, center-fielder Bruce Weller followed with a walk and Bauer lined an RBI-single to right. Vince Martelli brought Weller home with a ground ball and Eddie Farrell made it 3-0 with another single...
...trial, a phalanx of heavyweight civil liberties lawyers, prepped by 60 scientific consultants, faced a far less-experienced Arkansas legal team. Last week the A.C.L.U. rolled out its case and it was crushing. The lead-off witness, United Methodist Bishop Kenneth Hicks, termed the bill a clear-cut "transgression of the First Amendment." University of Chicago Theologian Langdon Gilkey was unimpressed by the fact that the state law carefully did not mention God by name. Said he: "A creator is certainly a god if he brings the universe into existence from nothing...
...close to untouchable for six innings, giving up just four hits while fanning ten. Only in the fourth, after Piniella had put the Yanks on top with his solo shot into the left field bleachers in the top half of the inning, did Righetti run into trouble, yielding a lead-off single to Sal Bando. Bando moved to second as Ted Simmons grounded out, but Righetti struck out Gorman Thomas and Ben Ogilvie to retire the side...
...Phillies tied the game in the next inning on Keith Moreland's lead-off home run, but the Montreal starting pitcher, Steve Rogers, and ace reliever, Jeff Reardon, held the Phillies at bay the rest...
...weeks since Krukow's lead-off gaffe, the rest of baseball has gone blundering in his footsteps, devising a "second season" of artificial pennant races that promised to reward bad teams and penalize good ones, and prompted some players and managers to threaten openly that they would throw games if they would benefit by doing so under the screwy new rules. Under a lame-brain plan devised by league officials, the four teams leading their divisions when the strike started June 12 (the New York Yankees, Oakland A's, Philadelphia Phillies and Los Angeles Dodgers) were declared "first...