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Smerczynski tried, but a bloop single fell between shortstop Tony DiCesare and center fielder Bruce Weller, and after Steinhauser stole second, Dean Tanella's bad-hop base hit proved to be the ball game...
When junior shortstop Brad Bauer stepped up to the plate, two or three took out their stopwatches to time his run down to first. After rightfielder Donny Allard knocked a home run over the leftfield fence, one glanced at a numerical evaluation sheet, then muttered "I was waiting for him to do that...
Through 18 games sophomore shortstop Rich Syrek leads the team with a 439 average, including seven doubles and classmate Brian Flynn swings a .419 bat and has scored 15 runs, the team's power comes almost solely from designated hitter Joel Mock (.318, five homers, 19 rbi's) but he's got plenty to go around...
Pinchrunner Reid Nichols took third on a wild pitch by reliever. Salome Barojas and Boston manager Ralph Houk sent Tony Perez to the plate to pinch hit for Jerry Remy. With the count two and two, Perez grounded out to shortstop Bill Almon to give the White Sox the victory...
...freshmen, third baseman Scott Vierra and shortstop Tony (Coots) DiCesare, and a sophomore, second baseman Gaylord Lyman, will be worked around Bauer, manning whichever spots he doesn't. Bauer will probably open the season replacing the slick-fielding but weak-hitting (.170, two RBIs in 88 at bats) Lyman at second, and stay or move depending on Vierra's progress...