Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there is nothing potentially more explosive than teasing a fatalistic Red Sox fan--a hungry breed of sports fan, a bug-eyed baseball lunatic who in the summer months follows every pitch and grabs for every grain of hope with the tacit, suppressed knowledge in the back of his mind that around August, no matter how many home runs Jim Rice hits, or how awesome Yaz is out there in left--the cold hand of fate will sweep down from New York or Baltimore or Detroit and topple all the dominos...
...pitch high...
Then, with an 0-2 count on catcher Tim Dachos, Stewart made his next pitch a little too good. Dachos chopped a bounding ball down to Burke St. John, and the shortstop bobbled it long enough to let everyone be safe...
...fifth, with the game still scoreless as both sides traded mental errors, B.C. leftfielder Gary Anderson banged Stewart's first pitch to right center field for a double. Anderson moved to third after shortstop Kevin McDonald walked and was erased on a pretty 6-4-3 double play...
...those kinds of runs would be enough, but the very next inning Eagle second baseman Chuck Mitchell rapped a one-out single to left and moved quickly to third when first baseman Jim Conroy yanked the next pitch for a double down the left field line. Stewart then threw a wild pitch to score him and make...