Word: pinchhitting
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...hulking righthander then settled back down to retire the side. Bibby gave manager Chuck Tanner one more strong inning before Manny Sanguillen was called on to pinchhit for him in the top of the fifth...
Angel Manager Jim Fregosi then elected to walk Oriole centerfielder Al Bumbry intentionally. Baltimore's Earl Weaver pinchhit Lowenstein, and he hit a two-strike pitch into the first row of the left field stands...
...relationship between the World Series and the season that precedes it is often purely coincidental. A team that won a record 111 games during the regular season loses four straight to one that won 97. A pinchhitter comes off the bench to clout two pinchhit home runs. A substitute outfielder makes one fantastic catch, brushes briefly with immortality-and for years afterward, people ask: Whatever became of Sandy Amoros? But last week's Series stuck strictly to the script...
...Amherst nine will be playing its first game of the season against the College boys. Williams, who has not yet recovered from a hernia operation, is only to manage and coach the team, although he may be called upon to pinchhit. Pesky, sensational shortstop for the Red Sox last year, needs no formal introduction to baseball fans, and will be at his regular position...
...that Soprano Ljungberg came nearest to realizing the music's grim intensity. She crouched on the floor, reproached the thing gently, sang to it ecstatically. Tenor Max Lorenz was a picture-book Herod instead of the crazy neurasthenic that Wilde and Strauss intended. Dorothee Manski (Herodias) had to pinchhit for Karin Branzell who was taken with gallstones (see col. i). Baritone Friedrich Schorr wore Jokanaan's haircloth shirt, sang resonantly. Tenor Hans Clemens (the Syrian) stabbed himself neatly...
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