Word: sox
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sox gave up all but the ghost yesterday, yielding timidly, 7-2, to Boog Powell and the Baltimore Orioles in Fenway Park, and falling five games off the pace with ten days left in the campaign...
Baltimore jumped on Red Sox starter Reggie Cleveland for three runs in the first inning. Rich Coggins walked and Paul Blair promptly doubled off the wall in deep left center to chase him home. After Bobby Grich lofted a sacrifice fly to rightfielder Dwight Evans to send Blair to third, Powell delivered his first hit, a broken-bat blooper to center, to score Blair...
...Jersey St. in Boston, the Red Sox had much more trouble moving men around the base-paths. As 26,495 looked on, the Bosox hit Cuellar's assortment of slow pitches for eight hits and collected four walks, but stranded...
Although the Red Sox threatened to peck away at the Birds' lead to win, Cuellar was content with men on base and received superb defensive support with two stellar plays by shortstop Mark Belanger. Belanger saved one run with a stunning aerial stab of a Terry Hughes smash, to end the sixth inning and leave Burleson on second base...
...Sox mounted another threat in the ninth, when Hughes singled to left to open the frame. But when Tommy Harper bounced past Robinson at third, Belanger ranged almost as far Brookline Ave. to collect the ball then threw on to Grich for a force...