Word: leftfielders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...innings go on without him. "Making a great play in the field always meant as much to me as a hit. I miss that," says Yaz, taking a deliberate drag from an omnipresent cigarette (he claims he never inhales). "I miss The Wall at Fenway [the 37-ft.-high leftfield monster]. I could play it in my sleep, and I do. Of course, they resurfaced it five or six years ago and ruined it. The rivets: they used to be fun. Decoying the runners into stopping at first base, when I knew that the ball was a double. I loved...
When junior shortstop Brad Bauer stepped up to the plate, two or three took out their stopwatches to time his run down to first. After rightfielder Donny Allard knocked a home run over the leftfield fence, one glanced at a numerical evaluation sheet, then muttered "I was waiting for him to do that...
...belonged in Fenway's centerfield. Those of us who grew up outside commuting distance from Boston, didn't hear much about centerfield in that ballpark. Leftfield, with its little wall, gets all the press. It's called the "Green Monster," which is a terrible misnomer; every batter who has looked north from home plate at Fenways views the "Monster" as the best friend he could ever have, a good buddy who turns pop ups into runs batted in. The Green Monster is a tourist trap...
Philadelphia broke a scoreless deadlock in the fifth, after Kansas City starter Larry Gura had retired thirteen consecutive batters. After Moreland reached first on an infield hit deep to short, Garry Maddox ripped an inside pitch into the leftfield corner to put runners on second and third. Moreland scored on a Manny Trillo sacrifice fly to right, and Maddox put the Phils in front 2-0 on Larry Bowa's single...