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After New York right fielder Lou Piniella singled to open the fifth, Kansas City manager Whitey Herzog lifted Leonard in favor of Steve Mingori...
...Mingori then allowed RBI singles to Chris Chambliss and Brian Doyle (filling in for the injured Willie Randolph at second base) as the New Yorkers increased tveir lead to four runs. Mingori lasted until the eighth, when a one-out single by speedy Mickey Rivers and a two-out safety by Piniella sent him to the showers...
...team in July of last year, he found a talented but badly divided club of disgruntled veterans and confused younger players. "I held more meetings than Henry Kissinger my first month here," Herzog says. His biggest success has been in stabilizing the pitching staff, especially the bullpen. There, Steve Mingori, a 32-year-old reliever who credits acupuncture for the first pain-free season of his career, has the cunning and toughness under pressure of his breed. His righthanded counterpart, Mark Littell, 23, is a flaky rookie known as "Air Head," who has been anything but airy about learning from...
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