Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sucked down into a massive winter depression. I've got a sixth game of a World Series to keep me going. And all winter long I'll be able to hear the echo of 35,000 people cheering on every corkscrew delivery of Luis ("The fans make me pitch better than I can do") Tiant...
...quit his job and disappeared, as did Dan Staggs, a nurseryman from nearby Springfield. In all, somewhere between 21 and 26 Oregonians simply up and left everything they had after attending a recruiting meeting of a baffling new sect called HIM-Human Individual Metamorphosis. The sect's sales pitch is simple: it promises to take its followers literally out of this world...
Rogelio Moret came in for Jim Willoughby and intentionally walked Pete Rose, the first batter he faced. Mery Rettenmund pinch hit for Ken Griffey and Moret struck him out. Joe Morgan followed Rettenmund and hit the one and two pitch over centerfielder Fred Lynn's head to produce the winning...
...started off the scoring with a lead-off homer by Carlton Fisk.' In the sixth, Carl Yastrzemski scored on a sacrifice fly by Fred Lynn. The next score came in the seventh when pinch hitter Bernie Carbo slammed the first pitch for a home run. In the ninth, Evans hit a two-run blast to tie up the game...
...also appropriate that Yaz singled to bring in Tiant with what proved to be the winning run. Midway through the ninth inning, when Boston appeared to have it wrapped up, the 35,000 fans stood and started chanting "Looeee, Looeee" to honor the first person to pitch a World Series shutout in four years. Curt Gowdy later gushed that in all the years he had personally watched World Series games, he never saw one person so dominate an entire game. And for once, I'd have to agree with...