Word: lofton
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Just like in the marathon, there are always fast starters that look sensational at the beginning only to fade into Bolivian (thank you, Mike Tyson). Last April, Kenny Lofton appeared to have regained his 1993 form. A fledgling baseball fan may have thought that Lofton was back—that he had found the fountain of youth and would finally get back to stealing 70 bases a year while hitting over...
Alas, by August, Lofton had been traded, and he barely hung on to a starting job with the Giants by season?...
...television—unless you’re Carl Morris, who is tracking the inning’s evolution on his expected-runs table. Only after announcing that the Giants should score 2.4 runs in this inning does Morris pick up his head to watch leadoff man Kenny Lofton battle Cardinals starter Chuck Finley...
...Lofton grounds into a fielder’s choice, and Snow is thrown out at the plate. Any baseball fan knows this was bad for the Giants, but only Morris can say just how bad. “That guy cost them 0.8 runs,” he says. “And he lowered the probability of their scoring at least one run from .89 to two-thirds.” As Rich Aurilia comes up, Bonds lurks in the hole. Aurilia flies to center, driving in Bell, and second baseman Jeff Kent follows up the sacrifice with...
When the fly ball San Francisco Giants centerfielder Kenny Lofton sent arcing into the outfield landed in Darin Erstad’s glove Sunday night and the Anaheim Angels won the World Series for the first time in their 42-year history, the applause in Edison Field was thunderous. Disney, Anaheim’s owner, couldn’t have written a better Cinderella story: despite baseball Commissioner Bud Selig’s naysaying, despite the lack of big names on their roster and despite their relatively untried pitching staff, the Angels triumphed in seven games...