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...home run right off the bat: the perfect note played on a party horn. Then the bottom of the inning kept on that way, fast and farfetched. Mitch Webster singled and Ryne Sandberg was up. Out of the rightfield stands popped Morganna, the floppy exhibitionist with the unmissable kisser, racing for the batter's box on mincing old-ballplayer feet that brought back the newsreels. She couldn't make it past the security guards to Sandberg, but she got to him anyway. His giggling homer gave Chicago a 2-1 lead...
...weird replay of the previous inning, McConaghy's hard grounder struck Cobb for the first out of the inning. But with the bases still loaded, Durand blasted a double to the rightfield wall to drive in O'Connell and Konjoyan and knot the score...
With the left-handed Renninger coming up, Pellagrini brought in lefty hurler Tom Logan to get the lefty-lefty advantage. But that strategy backfired, as Renninger deposited Logan's third offering behind the rightfield fence for a three-run homer to put the Crimson...
Manager Whitey Herzog, 55, scratching his head of straw, would be happy if he could just establish a lineup. Healthy pitchers are so precious that rather than take them out entirely, he sometimes stows them in rightfield. Third Baseman Terry Pendleton has all but joined First Baseman Jack Clark on the casualty list that has made Jim Lindeman and Jose Oquendo famous. "I don't know how we got this far," Herzog keeps saying the farther they go. Their most remarkable comeback was against themselves -- rather, against the memory of the 1985 World Series. On the verge...
...Twins victories this championship season, their first in 17 years. "There are tricky little things about it," reports Gaetti, one of three Twins with 30 homers (and Outfielder Kirby Puckett has 28). "Balls bounce funny in certain spots. They get lost in the ceiling and die in the rightfield corner. For us, it's almost worth a run or two a game...