Word: sox
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the battle-weary Red Sox captain popped out with two on and two out in a first-of-a-kind one-game playoff for the A.L. East crown at Fenway Park, the New York Yankees had won one of the classic games of baseball history...
...indeed it was a photo finish. The Sox seemingly had the contest and the pennant wrapped up after touching Yankee ace Ron Guidry for two runs in the first five innings--one on a towering Yaz homer in the second, the other on a Jim Rice single...
...Sox starter and ex-Yankee Mike Torrez lost his Midas touch in the top of the seventh, though, yielding two singles before shortstop Bucky Dent came to the plate with two outs...
...Sox, who had forced the playoff by winning their last eight regular-season games, refused to die easily, striking for two runs in the eighth and putting men on first and third in the ninth...
Reggie Jackson, who hit the home run that ended the Red Sox' season on Monday, iced the victory with a three-run blast to right-center field off Royal relief ace Al Hrabosky in the eighth...