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Santiago was on the mound again yesterday for the Bosox. This time he lasted two thirds of an inning. The supersonic Brock beat out an infield hit. As he danced off first, and the NBC cameras zoomed in on Santiago, you could see fear clutching Jose's pitching hand...
Thanks to Yastrzemski's three-run homer, Lonborg took a comfortable 5-0 lead to the mound in the eighth. The buzzing in Fenway rose to cheering when Tim McCarver hit an easy dribbler to Adair at second. After shortstop Rico Petrocelli swept up Mike Shannon's grounder, the cheer mounted to a high- pitch scream. Lonborg sthood just four outs away from pitching the second World Series no-hitter in baseball history...
...sixth, Yaz again led off with a long fly out to left. Scott and Reggie Smith followed with walks, and Cardinal manager Red Schoendienst galloped to the mound to talk to the tiring Hughes. No one was ready in the bullpen, so the bespectacled starter stayed to pitch to Jery Adair. Adair slammed a double-play grounder to third baseman Mike Shannon, who muffed it to load the bases...
...field. The Fall had begun. It was a reckless, selfish attempt to prolong that wild earlier feeling. But delirium turned to confusion, and the unskilled, inexperienced teenagers seized on greed to disguise dismay. Love became violence. They tore at Lonborg's uniform, dug their fingers into the mound, striped the bases, raped the scoreboard...
Minnesota tied the game, and then it happened again. With one man on, one out in the seventh, the crumpled Adair pushed a grounder to the mound, leveling the screams begging for a rally. Versalles moved easily towards second to make the double play--when confidence gave way to fragility. He dropped the ball, and runners were safe all around. Yazstrzemski whirled the bats about and hit a home run, a slow elegant home run which drew us after it in an orgasm of sound and motion...