Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Birds of Baltimore, heralded by most everyone save the Pirates as the best team in baseball, proved fallible. In Pittsburgh, they were held to a miserly nine hits and four runs through three games. Afield, Baltimore's play was even more disastrous -a wild pitch here, a passed ball there and bobbled grounders everywhere. In all, the Orioles committed five errors, two of them by Mr. Golden Glove himself, Third Baseman Brooks Robinson...
That bit of hustle by one of the game's elder superstars seemed to turn the Series around for the Pirates-especially in light of what happened next. Cuellar walked Leftfielder Willie Stargell on four straight pitches, moving Clemente to second. Then, with a 1-1 count on First Baseman Bob Robertson, Roberto tried to call a time-out to get the sign straight. Too late. Robertson drove the next pitch into the right centerfield mezzanine for a three-run homer. As Robertson crossed the plate, Stargell exclaimed: "Attaway to bunt!" Bunt? Robertson had missed the bunt sign. Final...
...House Mirrors. To help workers relax and perhaps even laugh at themselves, Matsushita placed distorting funhouse mirrors near the entrance to the room. The employee can also enjoy a gym with a punching bag, a pitch for harmony taped by Matsushita, and the services of a professional counselor...
...Buffalo, Sachs argues that the equations suggest that the difference between a clock aboard a spacecraft and one on the ground is observational rather than real. It is, he says, an effect similar to that experienced by an observer on a station platform who hears a change in pitch of the whistle of a passing train-when no change has actually occurred...
...form, striking out nine, allowing the Pirates only three hits and no earned runs, and at one point retiring 19 batters in a row. The Pirates scored first and early, stealing three runs on one hit in the second inning after a walk, a wild pitch and two errors by the usually impeccable Baltimore defense. But in the Baltimore half of the same inning, Frank Robinson opened with a home run off Pittsburgh Starter Dock Ellis; in the third, Merv Rettenmund unloaded another, this time with two men on. A final Oriole home run by Don Buford in the fifth...