Word: sox
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Carl Yastrzemski slammed two homers to lead the Red Sox to 5-0 revenge over St. Louis yesterday but the game ball went to Jim Lonborg. Lonborg came within seven batters of pitching a perfect game as he shut out the powerful Cardinals...
Contrary to Yastrzemski's statement, however, there is something that can stop the Red Sox...
When you look at their hitting, the Sox appear invincible. They have four of the top ten hitters in the league--Yastrzemski, Scott, Petrocelli, and everybody's darling, Tony Conigliaro--and the rest of the lineup has been coming through with the clutch hits when they are needed...
...Boston's pitching, and you wonder how the team has gone so far with so little. Jim Lonborg, it is true, has been phenomenal, and is the winningest pitcher in the majors. Gary Bell, who was acquired from Cleveland in a trade, has won six games for the Sox, but it is highly doubtful that he will keep it up. The other starters--Lee Stange, Gary Waslewski, and Darrell Brandon--run the gamut from mediocre to awful...
...baseball purists will say that pitching is 75 per cent of the game, and thus the Red Sox are a fluke team and will inevitably collapse. But Bostonians will hear none of this heretical talk. The Red Sox, after all, have been defying all logic since April. Why can't they do it for a little while longer