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Thirdbaseman Carney Lansford led off the inning with a single up the middle and on a hit-and-run, second-baseman Tony Phillips grounded a ball towards the hole vacated by Dodger shortstop Alfredo Griffin, who was covering second base. Griffin was forced to backtrack to the ball and Phillips beat out the play for an infield...
Dave Henderson, who had four of Oakland's nine hits, doubled home Walt Weiss, who singled, in the seventh. That finished Belcher, and Howell walked Canseco on five pitches before usually reliable shortstop Alfredo Griffin dropped a liner by Dave Parker, loading the bases and bringing up McGwire...
...strategy almost worked when Marshall hit a grounder to second. But Wally Backman's flip to shortstop Kevin Elster was wild allowing the fourth run of the inning to score. John Shelby capped the scoring with a sacrifice fly to left...
...Ophthalmologist Jose Portal was a star pitcher and a good shortstop too, but, he recalls, "I couldn't hit worth a damn." That is, not until he switched to batting lefthanded. After studying 23 varsity baseball players at the University of Florida campus in Gainesville, Portal thinks he knows why. ; In last week's New England Journal of Medicine, Portal and fellow Researcher Paul Romano reported that it's mostly a matter of eye-hand dominance. The better pitchers -- and poorer hitters -- tend to have a dominant, or favored, eye and hand on the same side. But good hitters have...
ERNIE Banks, Mr. Cub himself, the greatest power hitting shortstop of all time, made the best argument for night baseball at Wrigley. With the sun shining down on the green grass of Wrigley, Mr. Banks emerged from the dugout, gazed around the Friendly Confines and announced, "Let's play...