Word: sox
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cesar Geronimo led off the tenth inning with a single. He was followed by bunting specialist Ed Armbrister who was pinch hitting for Cincy pitcher Rawly Eastwick. Armbrister laid down a bunt in front of home plate, but when Red Sox catcher Carlton Fisk tried to make a throw to second to get Geronimo, he ran into Armbrister. As a result, Fisk's throw went over shortstop Rick Burleson's head and into centerfield. A heated argument between Sox manager Darrell Johnson and home plate umpire Barnett ensued, but the appeal did not succeed...
...Sox had been trailing for most of the game--5-1 at one point--before tying the score in the top of the ninth with a two-run homer by Dwight Evans...
...Reds scored five of their runs in the fourth and fifth innings. In the fourth, Sox starter Rick Wise walked Tony Perez. Perez then stole second and came home on a homer by Johnny Bench...
John R. Silber, president of Boston University, said yesterday that in his telegram reply to Bennis he wrote "you would get schrod if you bet with me. In defiance of the Red Tide from Cincinnati I will bet six live lobsters on the Red Sox...
Jerome Wiener, president of MIT, was also unfamiliar with the wager. He was, however, "certain" that the Red Sox would win the World Series, he said...