Word: sox
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eighth, the Red Sox staged a desperation comeback. With two on and two out, pinch hitter Bernie Carbo strode to the plate and, well, you know the rest of the story. With two strikes and more than a few tons of pressure on him. Carbo drove a Rawly Eastwick fastball deep into the center-field bleachers, tying the game. The unlikely Fenway crescendo had exploded again...
...movement, however. A couple more crescendoes and a grand finale were yet to come. In the bottom of the ninth, Cincinnati outfielder George Foster threw out Denny Doyle at home plate when Doyle tried to score from third on a pop fly. In the top of the eleventh, Red Sox rightfielder Dewey Evans robbed Joe Morgan of a home run with a reeling, leaping catch that Reds' manager Anderson called the best he had ever seen...
...already early morning, and a bright full moon was suspended above the center-field flagpole against the black sky, when Carlton Fisk dug in at home to lead off the bottom of the twelfth. When Fisk stroked the ball high toward the Green Monster, the hearts of Red Sox fans from Concord, New Hampshire, to Pawtucket, RhodeIsland, skipped a beat. Was it fair or foul? Ancient Fenway was generous this time: the ball caromed off the foul pole and into fair territory for a home...
...score Butch Hobson in the 15th inning Sunday, Fenway's dismal affair with the 1976 ended. As the right field bleachers clock steadily ticked off the final minutes of the season, a sign hanging below it already proclaimed next spring's hopes: "WE'LL GET 'EM NEXT YEAR! SOX of '77 NO. 1." As Burleson singled, the clock solemnly proclaimed "6:09," then shut...
Three cheers for the Red Sox...