Word: putout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yankees had not conspired so efficiently to beat themselves. Hank Bauer led off the first inning with a single, got ignominiously picked off base moments later. In the eighth inning, the same Bauer backed up for a routine line drive, overjumped it to make a double of a sure putout. With this help, Spahn took heart, got stronger and stronger (he retired 14 batters in a row), and the Braves won 4-3 in ten innings...
...wicked pitch that no hardball batter ever has to face: the rise ball. Sailing up from a few inches off the dirt, the rise ball can be made to break either way across the strike zone. The best batters are prone to pop it up for an easy putout. Good softball pitchers have been known to barnstorm the country and win most of their games with only a catcher and two fielders to fill out their teams...
...Left Fielder Sandy Amoros. But their best defense was Podres' zipping fast ball, carefully assorted with well-disciplined slow curves that kept the Yankees swinging off balance throughout the afternoon's siege. Finally, a gentle grounder rolled to Dodger Captain Pee Wee Reese for the last putout...
This time Robinson swerved to his left, dived for the ball and disappeared in a cloud of dust. The umpire's arm shot up, signaling the putout, as Robinson writhed on the ground, the wind knocked out of his body. Two innings later Robinson was a hero again. In the first half of the 14th, he connected with a fast ball, lifted it into the left field stands for the homer that won the game for Brooklyn, 9 to 8. Said Robinson afterward: "The minute I met it, I knew. I didn't even have to look...