Word: sox
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rice, who opened the Sox scoring with his blast in the third, also notched the first Boston hit of the season, knocking a Wise fastball into center field to bring the crowd to its feet. His screen job drove home Jerry Remy, who started the stanza with a single, and Fred Lynn, who got a pass from Wise to crown the bases...
...Sox kept the pressure on in the fourth when Dewey hit his homer, a towering foul corraled into fair territory by the blustering wind...
Lynn's seventh inning homer rounded out the Sox scoring, but Yaz gave the Red Sox fans their final moment of emotion in the game. The captain, who began the game the same way he ended last year's play off with the Yanks by flying out to the third baseman, blasted a smoking base-hit into center field in the seventh...
...broke through the clouds as the game ended, shining down on 34,433 chilled but cheering Sox fans. The Indians aren't the Yankees, but it won't be too long, and in springtime at Fenway anything's possible...
...Sox 7, Cleveland...