Word: shortstops
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...Fenway for Boston's 5-0 win over the Brewers on Sunday. The Sox were a half-game behind the Yanks and logic told me to root for the Brewers. But how could I root for Dale Sveum, the Brewer shortstop? Or even Rob Deer, who swings more than the Glen Miller band...
...single by first baseman Rich Renninger set up a no-out, bases-loaded situation for shortstop Dave O'Connell with no outs. Brooks walked O'Connell to force in a run, and got second baseman Casey Cobb to ground into a double play which scored Hurley, as Harvard cut the lead...
...great Oriole staffs of the past, Robinson inherits two children of the deposed manager. Billy Ripken, 23, the second baseman, quietly exchanged his uniform number for his dad's. "I don't want to see anyone else wearing it," he grumbled. On the timing of their father's dismissal, Shortstop Cal Ripken Jr., 27, said, "As a player, I don't have an opinion. As a son, I'll keep my opinions to myself." Baltimoreans are especially worried about Cal Jr., the American League's Most Valuable Player of 1983, who went 0 for 29 at one stretch...
...remember those strikeouts you keep getting?" Robinson is telling his shortstop, Cal Ripken Jr. "You've got to even out your swing, like that boy over there...
Ripken watches the boy, chunky, with the remains of a chocolate bar smothered across his face, smash a baseball over the shortstop's head...