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...Phillies tied the game in the next inning on Keith Moreland's lead-off home run, but the Montreal starting pitcher, Steve Rogers, and ace reliever, Jeff Reardon, held the Phillies at bay the rest...
...could more than protect himself." Like some of the others, he had brushes with the police. At the time of his disappearance, he was wanted for questioning in connection with a burglary. Those who knew him described him as "a very streetwise boy" who often hung around the Moreland Shopping Center trying to make money by carrying shoppers' groceries to their cars...
...fact, the Moreland Avenue area in southeast Atlanta seems to be connected with many of the murders. Aaron Jackson Jr., 9, was last seen Nov. 1 at the same shopping center, and the body of Aaron Wyche, 10, was discovered last June near a railroad bridge off Moreland Avenue. Five other victims lived within a three-mile radius of the shopping center, and Rogers knew at least four of them. After Wyche's death, Rogers had remarked to his mother that the killings were getting "close to home...
Such problematical openings are often fatal on Broadway, but Makarova and Company is hardly typical fare. For one thing, this program was only the first of four. Still to come are the world premiere of Barry Moreland's Ondine and the first performance outside the Soviet Union of Maya Murdma's Studies. Even balletomanes who were troubled by the uneven debut will probably be lured back by the curiosities ahead...
Philadelphia broke a scoreless deadlock in the fifth, after Kansas City starter Larry Gura had retired thirteen consecutive batters. After Moreland reached first on an infield hit deep to short, Garry Maddox ripped an inside pitch into the leftfield corner to put runners on second and third. Moreland scored on a Manny Trillo sacrifice fly to right, and Maddox put the Phils in front 2-0 on Larry Bowa's single...