Word: lemon
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...high moment is still strong. Even on the edge of a championship fully anticipated since April, the Detroit Tigers themselves seemed to be hoping for a better stage than a World Series only notable, and not remarkable, for scraps of drama-an exhilarating Chet Lemon catch or an excruciating Bobby Brown slump or two professional pitching performances by Jack Morris. When San Diego seemed all but finished, Detroit Manager Sparky Anderson said, "I wish before this is over that my team could have one day of playing the way it can play. No one's seen...
...took a specutacular twisting catch in dead center field by Chet Lemon to end San Diego's final hope in the seventh inning...
...went out together was this young team that grew up together, and grew up in the major leagues. Strength through the middle is baseball's eternal ideal, and the model today is the Tigers' Catcher Lance Parrish, Shortstop Alan Trammell, Second Baseman Lou Whitaker and Centerfielder Chet Lemon. Probably it has to do with the nature of runaway races, but none of them seems quite as considerable now as he did in the spring or even last year. Trammell hit over .300 but missed more than 20 games without being missed tremendously. Whitaker slipped slightly both...
Barbaro Garbey led off with a shot up the middle that Liebrandt deflected for a single. Lemon forced Garbey at second, before Darrell Evans singled to put runners at the corners...
Castillo then hit a bouncer to shortstop Onix Conception, who threw to second baseman White to force Evans at second. But White's relay to first was a shade late as Lemon scored the game's only...