Word: ninth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reacting to a challenge, knowing exactly where he stands and what he has to put out to win. Winners are the ones that don't choke, the ones who get the key hit with the bases loaded, two outs, and losing by a run in the bottom of the ninth, the players who make the shoestring catch for a first down and maybe a touchdown. In this case, the competitor who can, with a single ball remaining, somehow collect the all-important victory points...
McAuliffe, who ignited a four-run rally in the ninth inning with a leadoff walk, started the 10th with a walk off Cecil Upshaw and Upshaw then fielded Bob Montgomery's bunt and threw late and high to second...
...embarrassed by the alcohol problem to do much more than reluctantly admit that it exists. One system that has faced up to it and conducted reliable surveys is in the suburban county of San Mateo, south of San Francisco. There, in 1970, school officials found, 11 % of the ninth grade boys (13-and 14-year-olds) said that they had drunk some kind of alcoholic beverage 50 or more tunes in the past year; in 1973 the figure had jumped to 23%. Among senior class boys (17-and 18-year-olds) the percentage of such relatively frequent drinkers rose during...
Fran Cronin, running for designated hitter Joe Mackey, who had received his fourth walk of the ballgame, scored the winning run from third on a wild pitch in the top of the ninth, sliding under Bruin relief pitcher Don Cawley's lunging tag. Dave St. Pierre scored the ninth run on Ed Durso's sacrifice...
Walsh allowed a single to open the ninth, but the next batter popped out to third baseman Jim Thomas. A single, two walks and a missed double-play attempt scored two runs and loaded the bases with one out. Walsh then got down to business, recording a strikeout and forcing a groundout to end the game...