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Erstwhile Yankee Mike Torrez, who has lost eight of his last nine starts, held on for nine innings to dump the Detroit Tigers by a score of 1-0, in a true September nerveeater of a game...
Despite allowing seven walks, Torrez threw only 126 pitches for his three-hit victory. It was his 16th win against 12 losses, and the 15th time Torrez pitched a full nine-inning game. This was his best game in recent memory, an intense performance of the last kind...
Originally, the tournament was envisioned as a tuna catching shindig, but since its inception only four tuna have been boated. (The fishermen have hooded nine others, all of whom got away.) In 1964, George Deagle of the University of Western Ontario brought in a 703-lb. tuna. However, the tuna population has been on the wane in the past few years, and the peak tuna season comes two weeks after the tournament...
Kheel was hired approximately three weeks ago by the Allied Printing Trades Council (APTC) to serve as an adviser to the other nine unions involved in the pressmen's strike...
...hurled nine strong innings and for the first time in weeks. Red Sox fielding and hitting didn't make things tough...