Word: petrocelly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crowd chanted, but Luis Tiant was not there--nor was Fred Lynn, Carlton Fisk, Jim Rice, Denny Doyle, Bernie Carbo or Rico Petrocelli. Their off-season had already begun...
Gullett left to a standing ovation, and manager Sparky Anderson went to his bullpen for Rawly Eastwick. The young hurler struck Rico Petrocelli out on three pitches to nail down...
Yastrzemski and Petrocelli, both longtime Fenway Park heroes and the only players left from the Red Sox's 1967 American League pennant-winners, had the capacity crowd of 35,578 madly cheering their heroics...
...Petrocelli then tagged Fingers for a huge home run that sailed into the light tower beyond the left-field wall in the seventh inning...
Then in the seventh, Petrocelli, leading off, unloaded his home run, giving the Red Sox a two-run cushion. Boston added a run in the eighth on Fred Lynn's RBI single. Reliever Dick Drago, the third Boston pitcher, protected that edge the rest...