Word: one-run
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...inning, two runs had been scored and the Crimson took a one-run lead that it held until the end of the game...
...late in the ball game, and the Boston Red Sox are clinging to a one-run lead. But the Red Sox pitcher is tiring fast. He throws. Ball one. Another pitch, another ball - and another. The murmur starts in the box seats behind the Boston dugout. Swiftly it spreads through the grandstand and bleachers, picking up cadence, cresting in volume, until all Fenway Park is chanting in unison: "We want The Monster! We want The Monster! We want The Monster!" Manager Johnny Pesky obediently trots out and lifts one hand high above his head, the signal that means: "Send...
Both teams were good field, no hit; both had made a specialty of winning one-run games with deeds of derring-do (the White Sox 35 out of 50; the Dodgers 33 out of 55). The "Dodgers were counting on the strong right arm of Catcher John Roseboro to check Chicago's famed speed on the base paths, and man for man the Dodgers were actually faster than the go-go Sox. One apparent Chicago asset: their pitching staff was well rested, while the Dodgers' was still giddy-eyed and weary-armed after the frantic, final dash...
...word; slick Shortstop Luis Aparicio, 25, and quick-handed Second Baseman Nellie Fox, 31, the best double-play combination in baseball; and Centerfielder Jim Landis, 25, one of the fastest fly chasers in the business. Under Manager Al Lopez' fatherly hand, the hitless-wonder White Sox, young and old alike, scamper the bases with glee, turn so cool in the clutch that they have won 31 of 41 one-run games. Says President Bill Veeck: "We connive, scrounge and hustle to get just one measly run. We can't afford to give any away...
This outburst erased a one-run Tufts lead built up by a walk, stolen base, and single in the first inning. Johnson's only other moment of weakness came in the sixth, when he walked the first two men. A stroke of bad luck filled the bases when, on a ground ball, Harrington's peg to second arrived just too late to force the runner. A fielder's choice and a sacrifice fly then brought in two runs...