Word: niekro
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Cardinals' Jim Kaat made it 24 campaigns this year, the only major league pitcher ever to make it that far. Atlanta's gray knuckleballer, Phil Niekro, was gypped out of 4⅓ shutout innings last Wednesday night when the National League playoffs were stalled by the first of two rain-outs in St. Louis. With no Pete Rose or Carl Yastrzemski left around, and Pittsburgh's Willie Stargell gone forever, Niekro is the survivor of the year. Undaunted by the rain, he tried to talk Manager Torre into restarting him without rest Thursday night, and renewed...
Atlanta are Phil Niekro survived two Cardinal uprisings in his 4-1-3 innings of shutout ball. Niekro escaped a two-out, bases loaded jam in the first when he retired George Hendrick on a fly ball. Lonnie Smith tripled with two down in the third, but Niekro got Keith Hernandez on a grounder to end the threat...
...better start taking care of myself,' it's too late." Besides Yaz, Rose and Perez, the only other over-40s enjoying extra innings are Pittsburgh's Pop, Willie Stargell, 41, and Pitchers Jim Kaat, 43, of St. Louis, Woodie Fryman, 42, of Montreal, Phil Niekro, 43, of Atlanta, and Gaylord Perry, 43, of Seattle. In the offseason, tennis fortifies Rose. Yaz, because of his chronically creaky back, is unable to run for exercise, so he pedals a bicycle in the winter and swings a leaded bat daily, relentlessly. Both say the physical part is the easy part...
...West, the unsung Astros finally managed to give Houstonians something to talk about besides oil and the Oilers. After a fast start, the Astros slumped at midseason when a stroke disabled their best pitcher, J. R. Richard. Fireballer Nolan Ryan faltered in Richard's slot, but Veteran Joe Niekro and a spot starter named Vern Ruhle, 29, rose to the occasion. The man who really sparked Houston's comeback was Joe Morgan, the team's feisty second baseman. Morgan delivered a stirring locker-room lecture to his demoralized teammates one losing Thursday. They went...
Houston knuckleballer Joe Niekro, with help from fireman Dave Smith in the eleventh, silenced the big bats of Schmidt, Luzunski & Co. in allowing only seven hits...