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Deron Johnson, acquired from the Chicago While Sox Sunday after star rookie Jim Rice was injured, began Boston's uprising with a single. Johnson went to third on Rico Petrocelli's single and came home on Fred Lynn's double, tying the score...
Doyle singled in Lynn in the eighth and Johnson stroked an RBI single in the ninth for insurance...
...Rice doesn't exist except as a baseball player, save for his close friends and family. In the ballpark, though, loping out to the outfield, matching steps with Freddie Lynn like the first two mustangs out of the canyon to sniff the expanse, or kneeling in the on deck circle coiled like a spring, or straightening up, breathing hard at first base after cracking one to left center--in the ballpark he's a bubbling, vital being who radiates sheer, awesome promise. Now the fourth metacarpal bone in his left hand is fractured and he is dead. Any sane...
Rice was priceless when he played. He didn't have the picture-perfect and fluid swing of Lynn, to whom he was always compared. Instead his powerful wrists carved the bat around, hard, and caught it for an instant before bringing it back, hard. He swung it like a scythe, and once I watched him connect full force and hit the ball up and over the flagpole in deep center, still going up at the 400-foot mark...
People noticed when he hit that ball, just as they noticed when he won game after game with his bat, and when he knocked in as many runs, finally, as Lynn did. But face it--Lynn got most of the glory. Not that Rice would care, or that he was ignored, or that any fan would be prepared to admit a visceral preference for Lynn. But it was demeaning simply that Rice and Lynn were always mentioned in the same breath. They complemented each other--the rightie, the leftie, the fielder, the slugger, the rookies, the meat of the order...