Word: northrups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...allowed only three hits and no runs. Then Mickey was given another unexpected gift, this time by St. Louis' Curt Flood, generally accepted as one of the game's best outfielders. In the top of the seventh inning, with two Tigers on base, Detroit's Jim Northrup hit a deep but routine line drive to centerfield. Flood momentarily lost the ball against the white-shirted crowd, found it, then stumbled and watched it sail over his head for a triple. Two runs scored, and the Tigers went on to win 4-1, as Lolich, in workmanlike fashion...
Dick Hughes replaced Willis but did little better. Cash greeted him with a first-pitch single, scoring the ninth run of the inning, and Willie Horton drove in number 10 before Hughes finally forced Northrup...
Detroit, finally living up to its reputation for awesome plate power, unsheathed its bats in the top of the third. The Tigers sent 15 men to the plate to face four different and equally ineffective Cardinal pitchers and cracked out seven base hits, including Jim Northrup's grand-slam homer...
Mickey Stanley singled to left, and Kaline cracked a single to center, scoring McAuliffe. Washburn headed for the showers. Reliever Jaster pitched to only three men--Norm Cash, who singled in Stanley, Willie Horton, who walked, and Northrup, who did his thing...
...players are charging," says Mickey Stanley. "Every day, it is somebody else who gets the job done. That may sound like 'High School Harry,' but that's the case." In one game against the second-place Cleveland Indians last week, Northrup forgot his aching knee long enough to clout a brace of grand-slam homers and tie a big-league record.* In another, it was Dick Tracewski, a .170 batter, who hit a game-winning homer to beat the Indians 4-1. "Now I have nothing to look forward to for the rest of the year," said...