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Dennis Eckersley started for the Red Sox against the White Sox southpaw Britt Burns. Facing lead-off batter Ron LeFlore, Eckersley missed the strike zone on the first pitch of the season. With the count 2-1, LeFlore nailed a single to the right. Mike Squires, batting second, grounded out and the third batter, Carlton Fisk, ambled out to the plate. Immediately the stands erupted to give the former Red Sox catcher a loud standing ovation. A few fans booed. Fisk, batting against the premiere Red Sox pitcher and a man he has caught for the past three seasons...
Obviously, manager Ralph Houk will give a good, long look to those who have pitched well in the majors, like southpaw John Tudor (8-5, 3.02 in Boston last year) and vet Skip Lockwood. He'll also be inspecting perennial prospects Win Reramerswaal and Keith MacWhorter, neither of whom made it big in their short stints in Massachusetts last year...
...will rest the responsibility for penetrating the predictably superb--though vulnerable to the pass--Yale defense. Buckley has completed 75 of 134 passes for 982 yds. this season for 8 touchdowns, and has run for 3 more scores. But since his first start after mid-season knee surgery, the southpaw has not been at his best--with an ominous eight interceptions in Harvard's last two games...
...Royals managed only six hits against southpaw Rudy May but put four of those together to score all the runs that Leonard needed. With one out, Darrell Porter lined a single to left and moved to second on Frank White's Single to right. Then, speedster Willie Wilson smashed a ground triple down the right field line to knock in two runs...
...York threatened--but could not produce--against southpaw Gura. With men on first and third, and two out in the seventh, Gura forced Reggie Jackson to bounce to second to extinguish a Yankee threat...