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...Pirates lost their 10th game in 21 contests under new manager Danny Murtaugh, dropping a 2-1 decision to the Philadelphia Phillies. Steve Carlton hurled a five hitter against the Bucs while Mike Anderson and Bill Robinson provided the only offense needed with solo homers in the second and sixth innings...
...choice for TIME'S Man of the Year: Danny Murtaugh, manager of the World Champion Pittsburgh Pirates...
...haven't seen the real Pirates yet," said Pittsburgh Manager Danny Murtaugh after the Baltimore Orioles won the first two games of the World Series. So it seemed last week when the action shifted to Pittsburgh. Hitting, hustling and hurling like a team possessed, the Pirates swept three straight games from the heavily favored World Champion Orioles. Nevertheless, when the Series switched back to Baltimore, the Pirates had to battle more than the singing fastballs of Oriole Pitcher Jim Palmer. No team in Series history has ever lost the first two games and then come back...
...next six innings. The Pirates, led by Stargell, Centerfielder Al Oliver and the irrepressible Clemente, pushed across two runs of their own in the first inning and another in the third to tie things up. Then, with a runner on third and two outs in the seventh inning, Murtaugh sent in another 21-year-old rookie, Pinch Hitter Milt May, who lined a sharp single to give Kison and the Pirates a 4-3 victory...
...were no changes. The old Philadelphia Athletics who became the Kansas City Athletics are now the Oakland Athletics and they still don't look very impressive. A fellow named Larry Shepard, pitching coach last year of the Philadelphia Phillies, is managing the Pittsburgh Pirates in place of Danny Murtaugh, and 30-odd other coaches have switched jobs. Yankee Manager Ralph Houk was crowing about the new faces on his ball club-six all told, with three in the starting line-up-and his new go-go offense...