Word: ninth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...almost single-handedly put Los Angeles back in the pennant race in the heat of the summer, chucked his aspiring balls for 3 2/3 innings of no-hit ball until pinch-hitter Jerry Martin touched him for the Phils' only four-bagger in the last half of the ninth...
That, of course, and New York relief pitcher Rich Gossage's out-dueling of Boston captain Carl Yastrzemski. For when Gossage popped up Yastrzemski with two out in the ninth at Fenway yesterday afternoon, the Yankees had taken the onegame playoff for the American League East crown in dramatic fashion...
...scrambled back for one last attempt at salvaging the roller-coaster summer, hitting for two runs in the eighth but stranding runners at first and second base in that frame, and first and third in the ninth...
Butch Hobson and George Scott killed the rally with a pop-up and a swinging third strike, though; and the whole mad season came down to Gossage versus the heart of the Red Sox lineup in the bottom of the ninth...
Greg Luzinski hit his 35th homerun for the Phils, and starting pitcher Randy Lerch hit two four-baggers. Reliever Ron Reed closed the door on a four-run Pittsburgh rally in the ninth when he struck out hot-hitting Willie Stargell on three pitches to end the game...