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...second, I flip around twice, no parachute. Two seconds, I twirl twice, still no parachute. Three seconds, I plummet, forehead toward the earth. Four, my harness tears at my hips and chest, swings my feet above my head. The parachute glides above me. The earth is a gray mound, Boston glimmers on the horizon. I make out a small rectangular building surrounded by dots, a small field and then trees and lakes. The air swirls silently. A band of trees approaches but I glance once more to the parachute, the sky and the horizon. The stiff branches of the trees...
...people who leer through the history of the Red Sox. Like Bill Lee lighting a candle and leaving it on Don Zimmer's desk in memory of friend Bernie Carbo, on the day of Carbo's importation to Cleveland. Like Jimmy Piersall walking up to the pitcher's mound one afternoon during batting practice and firing a limp stream of water at homeplate with a squirt...
That launched the shutdown of Oriole hitters by Pittsburgh pitchers. Proud possessors of the most successful starting rotation in all of baseball, the Orioles suddenly found themselves outmanned on the mound by a ragtag collection of starting relievers, relieving starters and the ubiquitous Tekulve, who iced the last two Pi rate wins by facing 15 batters and giving up just one single. In the final three games, Baltimore scored only two runs, while Pittsburgh mowed down Baltimore's best...
Bibby's replacement on the pitching mound, righthander Don Robinson, did not take long to get into a jam. The Birds' Doug DeCinces slashed a single up the middle to lead off the bottom of the fifth...
...series resumes today in Pittsburgh, as Jim Bibby takes the mound for the home team to oppose Baltimore's Dennis Martinez. The Orioles lead the series...