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...more weaknesses than Philadelphia, most notably at shortstop, center field and the bullpen. But they will be stronger on the mound for at least the beginning of games two and three, with Sutton and probably Burt Hooton (11-7, 2.66) starting. As for the bullpen, cheerleading manager Tommy Lasorda will probably shore up that Achilles heel with reserve started Doug Rau (3.43) and Rick Rhoden...
With Tiger starter Fernando Arroyo settling down to mow down Boston's awesome lineup, the game rested on the shoulders of the Sox pitching staff. As has happened so often in 1977, the mound crew did not come through...
SEEKING DIVORCE. Dolores Hrabosky, 27; from Al Hrabosky, 28, St. Louis Cardinal ace relief pitcher, nicknamed the "Mad Hungarian" because of his unsettling mannerisms on the mound; after seven years of marriage; in Clayton, Mo. Says Hrabosky, who admits to practicing psy-war on batters: "If my mother was up at the plate, I'd hit her. I'm not the nice guy everyone makes...
...watermelon fields. To while away the steamy Georgia afternoon, he invited the army of reporters camping out in Americus to come over and "bat some balls" on the Plains diamond. Brother Billy Carter, wearing a sports shirt emblazoned BELLY FLOP AND CANNON BALL DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS, disloyally took the mound for the "Newsies." His brother, decked out in faded cutoffs, lobbed a steady underhand pitch (no spin) for the White House players, the "Jimmy's." When the Newsies won 14-11, Carter's team immediately demanded a rematch-and lost again. In the third game, the press finally buckled...
...diameter at its widest, hitting a ball not quite 3 in. in diameter; two objects-one cylindrical, the other a sphere-meeting headon. Consider the speed: a major league pitcher's fastball traveling well over 90 m.p.h., hissing the 60-ft. 6-in. distance from mound to plate in ⅔ of a second. Consider the odds: the game's greatest stars failing the task seven times in ten, and still they are .300 hitters, worthy of holding forth at banquets in the winter and holding out for a bigger piece of the pie in the spring. And hitting...