Word: pinches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...management traded away his best friends on the team, and they sold his very best friend, Bernie Carbo--who was also the best pinch-hitter on the bench--to Cleveland. The Red Sox got nothing but money in exchange for Bernie Carbo, the co-spaceman who was known as one of the best pinch-hitters in baseball. Lee quit the team for three days in protest. "It's time we started talking about the earth," he said upon returning...
Dent singled to left to start the rally, and centerfielder Mickey Rivers beat out a beautiful bunt on the following play to put men on first and second. Roy White then sacrificed Dent to third, with pinch-runner Paul Blair breaking up a Dodger double-play effort...
...word is pressure. Nyerere believes Smith will get down to serious bargaining only after he is convinced that "he cannot count on support from the U.S. and Britain." Two recent events, however, may have reassured Smith that in the final pinch the West will come to his aid: 1) a recent congressional attempt to require the U.S. to lift sanctions against Rhodesia by the end of 1978; and 2) disclosures that past British governments looked the other way when oil companies violated a ban on petroleum shipments to Rhodesia. Nyerere professes to be unconcerned about the past. "The international community...
Welch, the classy flame-thrower who almost single-handedly put Los Angeles back in the pennant race in the heat of the summer, chucked his aspiring balls for 3 2/3 innings of no-hit ball until pinch-hitter Jerry Martin touched him for the Phils' only four-bagger in the last half of the ninth...
Chris Chambliss (4-for-4, 1 RBI) lined a single to right, and Roy White followed with an identical poke. Pinch hitter "Heathcliff" Johnson grounded out to second, but Dent, the man who made thousands of Bostonians miserable on Monday, lined a single to right, collecting two of his three RBIs. When Mickey Rivers followed with yet another single, Royals manager Whitey Herzog yanked Gura in favor of 35-year-old Marty Pattin, who struggled out of the inning...