Word: speier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Champions again after 15 bleak Octobers, the Giants felt safe in Los Angeles last week until they were all thrown out of bed by the earthquake. "Oh jeez, this is it," Infielder Chris Speier thought, lifting himself off the floor. "The Reds are going to make the play-offs after all." Taking to the street barefoot, huddling away from the hotel in their underwear, the San Francisco players contemplated the fates. In August, after four straight games lost in the opponent's last at-bat, the Giants were five behind Cincinnati and facing a four-game Reds series and maybe...
...rookie on that starry '71 team of Bobby Bonds and the Willies, McCovey and Mays, Speier has been a utility player on this new Giant club that seems to feature them. He and Candy Maldonado's outfield understudy, Mike Aldrete, have been particularly handy. "Sometimes," says Speier, 37, "I think I take more pride in this job than I did playing every day. Roger Craig has penciled in over 120 different lineups this year. One thing's for sure, we certainly feel like a team...
...Toronto Blue Jays made Kash Beauchamp, son of former major leaguer Jim Beauchamp, the first selection in the regular phase of the 1982 winter amateur draft. In contract news, Chris Speier signed a three-year deal with Montral, Dave Rozema signed a three-year deal with Detroit, negotiations between the Dodgers and Fernando Valenzuela have broken down with the two sides over half a million dollars apart, and the Red Sox have reportedly decided not to continue to pursue free-agent pitchers Rick Waits and Sid Monge...
Burris, who fanned three, never faced more than four batters in one inning. The Dodgers' only substantial threat came in the ninth, when they put two men on with one out. But shorstop Chris Speier backhanded a line drive just off the turf and flipped to second baseman Rodney Scott for a game-ending double play...
...Wallach and Chris Speier combined for the winning run in the second inning off Steve Carlton as the Montreal Expos beat the World Champion Philadelphia Phillies 3-1 in the first game of their best-of-five series for the National League East Championship...