Word: nipper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nipper of the Boston Red Sox flirted with his first major league shutout for seven innings Tuesday against the Texas Rangers...
...previous starts in three-plus years with Boston, Nipper was unable to hang on, finally settling for a 4-1 victory which handed the Rangers their fifth consecutive loss...
Darryl Strawberry led off the eighth with a homer off Boston reliever Al Nipper. Orosco, batting for only the fourth time this season, singled in Knight with the eighth New York...
...league had such a strong starting rotation? One has to look back a decade, to Baltimore's Palmer-Cuellar-Dobson-MacInally rotation to find such an agglomeration of hurlers on one American League team. Nor have the Sox, who now sport the rotation of Clemens-Boyd-Hurst-Seaver-Nipper, boasted such pitching in a decade. One wonders whether Clemens, Boyd and Hurst would have all won 20 games if Hurst's leg and Boyd's head muscles had been in working order earlier in the season...
...muscle along Nipper's kneecap was injured Sunday in a collision with Texas' Larry Parrish at home plate that sent a spike into the muscle...