Word: pinched
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...other professional sports, the game itself is attractive. Football offers hard hits, long passes, late-second field goals. Baseball offers overpowering pitchers, chess-like strategy, pinch-hit homeruns. Hockey offers brawls, great saves, breakaway goals...
Kirk Gibson, the Dodgers' pinch hitter deluxe in the Series' opener, was not employed this time, even though Los Angeles was at the bottom of its batting order...
...allowed only a one-out single by Marty Barrett in the first inning and a two-out single by Larry Parrish in the eighth. Randy Kutcher, pinch running for Parrish, was picked...
With the score 9-8 in favor of the Yankees in the ninth inning, pinch hitter Spike Owen drove in two runs, highlighting the Boston comeback. Dennis Lamp picked up the victory for the Sox. Lee Smith got the save...
...Ghosts? The occult? We don't say these stories are true; we just report them." The methods tabloids use to substantiate their sometimes unlikely stories are often ingenious. To prove UFOs have been frolicking in Wisconsin, reporters will wrangle a policeman or pilot to say "Sure." And in a pinch, some editors have been known to put an authority on a subject in Eastern Europe to elude verification...