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...fluke homer by Pitcher Jose Santiago; only six other Red Sox batters even got to first, and in the strikeout column stood ten big Ks. With that kind of pitching, all it took to wrap up the game was a pair of runs, both of them supplied courtesy of Leftfielder Lou Brock, 28, the Cards' hardhitting (at .299) lead-off man and baseball's most artful burglar since Maury Wills decided to go straight. Lean, whippet-fast, a master of getting the jump on a pitcher, Brock has stolen no fewer than 189 bases in the last three...
...John Wyatt, No. 1 relief pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, coats the ball with Vaseline. "Wyatt," says Joe Pepitone of the New York Yankees, "carries so much Vaseline on him that if he slid into second base he'd keep right on going to the leftfield fence." Dean Chance (17-9) of the Minnesota Twins has been accused of "loading" with both saliva and stickum, but he also has plenty of legal stuff on the ball: last week he pitched his second no-hitter in a month-the first was a rain-shortened, five-inning affair-to beat...
...owned the patents: he has been known to use as many as three pinch hitters for one turn at bat. In his "gogo" offense, even pitchers steal bases, and a batter who reaches first base is considered to be in scoring position. Against Baltimore last week, Chicago Leftfielder Jimmy Stewart scored from first on a single to leftfield-because the Orioles never imagined he would...
...opposing pitchers. "Where are you going to pitch the guy?" asks California's Dean Chance. "Earlier this year I jammed him and he hit the ball into the rightfield seats. So the next time I went outside with him and he hit the ball 350 ft. into the leftfield stands." Twins Manager Sam Mele says, "I think the kid could hit wearing boxing gloves," predicts that Oliva may yet become the first big-leaguer to bat .400 since Ted Williams-who hit .406 in 1941. "It is a lot of tough to hit .400," says Tony. "But everything...
Nothing can save the Yanks this year. But Mantle, 34, keeps trying. In Boston one night two weeks ago, he came to ihe plate in the first inning and slammed a fastball into the rightfield bleachers. In the eighth he sailed another into the leftfield screen, and Boston's home crowd of 14,922 gave him a standing ovation. Next night the old outpatient blasted two more, then traveled south to Washington, where he poled four more homers in three games against the Senators to make it eight in six days. Last week, with the Yanks locked...