Word: ninth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...glad developments, though, the happiest were in Milwaukee, where a couple of strangers named Tom Trebelhorn and Juan Nieves momentarily turned the American League East upside down (restoring Cleveland to the bottom). On a drizzling night in Baltimore, Nieves no-hit the Orioles last week for the Brewers' ninth victory in a season begun perfectly. "Games like this can make a grown man cry," said Trebelhorn, 39, the most anonymous skipper in the major leagues...
...visiting Providence Friars upset the Harvard baseball team by rallying for three runs in the ninth to take a 6-3 win yesterday at Soldiers Field...
However, with men on first and third and only one out, the Crimson failed to score, which proved fatal in the ninth...
...Judges, trailing 6-1 in the ninth inning, gave the Crimson a minor scare as they tagged releiver McGrady--the winning pitcher (1-0)--for a ground-rule double and a home run with two outs, before the freshman was able to end the threat...
Guile, however, had no role in the ninth round, when Leonard finished winning the crowd and started finishing the fight. In terrible peril on the ropes, he twice flurried his way out and left Hagler shaking apart and griping aloud for a different kind of fight. Somewhere Leonard found the legs to obey his corner elf Angelo Dundee, who set him to dancing like Ali, complete with funny faces and windmills. Hagler smiled sadly. Before the last round began, Leonard raised a beckoning glove to the crowd, and by following suit Hagler only confirmed whose game they had been playing...