Word: ninth
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There is a remarkable scene near the beginning of Small Change. A little boy, three at the oldest, shoves a pet cat out on the ledge of his ninth-floor apartment, then watches it fall until it lands, safe but a little confused, on the balcony below. Then the boy, dressed for play in red overalls, climbs out on the ledge himself, laughing, having a wonderful time. He dangles his legs over the side, onto a railing, then lets go, sliding off into the air and down nine stories to the ground...
...losing ways of the Phils. We got clobbered in my first three outings and in the fourth Sandy Koufax no-hit us (I was angry at Dad because he was cheering for a no-hitter while I wanted Johnny Klippstein to break it up with two out in the ninth.) The highlight of that game was Richie Allen's--yes, Richie then--leadoff walk in the seventh inning. He was picked-off on the next pitch. Those were the days when we felt a right to boo. But sometimes we over-extended that right: after hitting three home runs...
...contest, the Red Sox were trailing 12-5 with two out in the bottom of the ninth. The handful of stragglers who had been wise enough (foolish enough?) to remain saw the Sox score eight runs and pull out a miraculous 13-12 victory...
Carbo's shot was just the end of the first movement, however. A couple more crescendoes and a grand finale were yet to come. In the bottom of the ninth, Cincinnati outfielder George Foster threw out Denny Doyle at home plate when Doyle tried to score from third on a pop fly. In the top of the eleventh, Red Sox rightfielder Dewey Evans robbed Joe Morgan of a home run with a reeling, leaping catch that Reds' manager Anderson called the best he had ever seen...
...following night, the Reds won the seventh game and the world championship on a bloop single in the ninth inning. In the Globe, Gammons wrote: "She is in retreat this morning, Olde Fenway; resting. Her affair with Kismet fell through at the very last, and while it was good, it was not to be this time...