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...really a nostalgic person at heart," Johnson said two days later, after Lee Mazzilli's pinch hit for Pitcher Sid Fernandez started to restore the manager's public brilliance. "Mazzilli was a hero here in New York before he was shipped to no-man's-land -- Pittsburgh and Texas. I like to see guys come back and be stars again." Tom Seaver, the ultimate Mets' star, sat out the series in the Boston clubhouse. Now and then, in the quiet time after games, Seaver leaned back on a locker and raised a sheet of X rays to the light...
Hurst, meanwhile, came out for a pinch hitterin the seventh. He worked six innings, giving upthree runs on four hits. The winner of Games 1 and5, he worked a total of 23 innings in the Series,giving up five runs on 18 hits...
...Jesse Orosco came out of the bullpen and got Rich Gedman on a line drive to second, struck out Dave Henderson and got pinch-hitter Don Baylor to ground out to short...
Hurst had retired 11 in a row and had allowedone hit when the Mets sent up pinch-hitter LeeMazzilli, who singled and scored the tying run inthe eighth inning of Game 6. Mazzilli singled withone out, and Wilson followed with a single thatsent Mazzilli to second...
...guest of honor 16 years ago was not Bernstein himself, but Don Cox, who was pinch-hitting for Huey Newton, the minister of Defense for the Black Panthers who had just been arrested. That night the richest and most liberal New Yorkers gathered to hold a fund-raiser for 21 Black Panthers who had been jailed months earlier...