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...division from late May until last week; but as Yankee Star Reggie Jackson said, "It's where you are when the leaves turn brown, not when they are green." The browning of America has begun, and the end is a short two-week pennant race away...
Just moments after the Detroit P.A. had announced the Yankees' 4-3 victory over Milwaukee, Boston Red Sox reliever Andy Hassler--a man who once lost 18 straight games--peered in on Tiger Jason Thompson with two on, the score tied, and the pennant fading fast. But in a gutty performance, Hassler and his kamikaze comrades held on and punched out a 5-4 win in 11 innings over the Motowners to stay alive in the A.L. East...
...Yankees, Sox and Brewers waged war in the American League East yesterday, teams around the league scrambled up the pennant races in the other divisions as the baseball season entered its final two weeks...
Yesterday's win may have comforted some Red Sox spirits, but the question now is can the Sox awaken from their horrifying daze and recoup to last out a pennant drive...
...indescribable Yastrzemski seemed to be saying "yes" when he popped a ninth-inning homer, his 14th of the year, to close the scoring for the game; but the memory of the "pinstriped plague" that devasted Boston has to sour sweet old Fenway's pennant dreams...