Word: pennant
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...field of blue. As Australia drops behind, boredom is kept at bay on Provincetown by the practice of underdoggery, a game I know well from a boyhood spent as a diehard Red Sox fan, living in New York and watching the pin-striped Yankees destroy my hopes for a pennant year after year. The America's Cup brings out all the low dodges, delusive hopes and suspensions of common sense so essential to refined underdoggery...
...lost ground to the Yankees in the American League Eastern pennant race, when Boston's game with Toronto was rained out at Fenway after only one-half inning...
...least a few more days--and maybe for longer than that--the champagne bottles will have to remain corked. On the verge of blasting their way right back into the A.L. East pennant race, the Red Sox lost a 5-4 heartbreaker at Detroit last night and fell three games behind the idle Yankees...
Look around you. The leaves aren't green anymore. People like Otto Velez aren't leading their leagues in home runs anymore. Pennant fever is vacant on both sides of Chicago now. The baseball season is winding down, and soon Natural Selection will name a champion...
...their RBIs, home runs and palm slapping, the Red Sox line-up has dismally failed countless numbers of times to get the clutch hits, the come-from-behind runs, and the late-inning rallies that are instrumental for division-winners and were the trademarks of the previous pennant-winning squads of 1967 and 1975. Sure, it's disappointing to see Rick Wise give up eight runs in the first two innings, but when George Scott lets two letter-high fastballs blow by him with a man on third and a tie ballgame, well guys, that's downright excruciating...