Word: mounds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...need for four different Philadelphia pitchers and the power with which the Dodgers greeted each one seemed to keynote this contest, and unfortunately for the Phils, may keynote the entire series if they cannot come up with a mound humbler of some sort. Retread Dick Rutheven gets his chance against L.A. lefty Tommy John when the series resume in Philly tomorrow...
Larry Gura, the former Yankee hurler, did not look particularly overwhelming on the mound, giving up ten hits in seven-plus frames, but he managed to scatter the hits widely enough to keep the New York sluggers at bay until late in the game...
Beattie, whose mound appearance in the opener had been a major source of concern for the Yanks before the game, retired the next three batters in order before George Brett led off the next inning with a bouncer up the middle that he stretched into a double when Mickey Rivers nonchalantly fielded the ball...
Everything was the way it should have been as the battle dressed up for the national audience. Ron Guidry vs. Mike Torrez on the mound. Guidry, the cagey Cajun who had kept the Yankees in the race all year with his fastball and slider, was called upon again by the New Yorkers, this time on only three days' rest. With a record of 24-3 before the contest, his regular season job was strangely not yet over...
...Larry Brown will not be allowed to quarterback from a pitcher's mound...