Word: rbi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both teams were silent until the eighth inning, when the Red Sox scored two more runs, on an RBI double by Lynn, and a run-scoring single...
...opened the scoring in the second inning when Rick Burleson's RBI double dropped into short centerfield between three Royals. Rico Petrocelli drove in Jim Rice in the fourth for Boston's second tally...
...Cincinnati offense is one of the finest in recent memory. Basically, the Reds line up is a three spark-plug, three piston machine. Morgan, Rose and Griffey, all hitting well over 300, are the spark-plugs; Bench, Perez and Foster, who collectively accounted for 66 home runs and 316 RBI's are the pistons. The sparkplugs hit 'em where they ain't and the pistons hit 'em over the walls...
Then in the seventh, Petrocelli, leading off, unloaded his home run, giving the Red Sox a two-run cushion. Boston added a run in the eighth on Fred Lynn's RBI single. Reliever Dick Drago, the third Boston pitcher, protected that edge the rest...
...only a game, sure, but when in Boston and throughout New England there are more than one million people who spend three hours a day watching or listening to the Red Sox, or at least conscious of the game and what the score is and how many RBI's Jim Rice has today, and when those million people, and certainly another million or two, have conversations a minimum of once a day that begin, "How 'bout those Red Sox, huh?" then it means something. It's pretty hard to find something that so many people can agree...