Word: sox
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cleveland came close tonight," he said, "But as long as the Yanks keep going it's like water under the bridge for us." Reggie Jackson's eighth-inning single keyed a come-from-behind 3-1 victory and bailed the Yankees out of a first place tie with the Sox...
Boston is now one game out of first place in the American League East, with only two games remaining in the season. But excellent Red Sox hitting, fielding and intense desire--coupled with a Cleveland lead through seven-and-a-half innings--turned routine Fenway cheers into standing ovations; hopes began to fly, and even Don Zimmer managed an airy smile...
Undoubtedly, the Red Sox are playing the best baseball even Clif and Claf could expect them to play. They shelled Clancy and Mark Wiley in the first three innings, picking up eight of their 11 runs...
...runs. And it all came down with a grunt in the eighth, when Fisk walked, Yaz singled, and Lynn tripled off the left field wall for two runs. Hobson's long single off the center field wall in that inning brought in two more. All told, the Sox banged out 16 hits...
...possibility of a Yankee defeat became more and more imminent, the spirits of the Sox and their fans were revived. And when Jim Rice knocked his first pitch of the game into left field for a base hit--becoming the American League's first slugger to reach 400 total bases since Joe DiMaggio in 1937--the hope was there...