Word: strikeouts
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...most embarrassing thing about baseball's most storied strikeout was that Mudville's bnleachers were "black with people" the day that mighty Casey took the count. No such public ignominy awaits the contemporary Casey: in Mudville or Milwaukee, empty seats are the sign of baseball's times...
...then gave up his only two walks of the afternoon, putting the winning run on base. Princeton's captain Don Fudge, who had a double and two singles in previous trips to the plate, then lined a single to right, scoring one and tying the game. A strikeout followed, but Larry Schoenfeld, the Tigers' right fielder, hit one of Garibaldi's offerings to center field, driving the winning run and one insurance run across the plate...
...Branson was visibly tired, although he continued his phenomenal strickout string. (He whiffed 12 during the game.) After getting the first two men in the eighth, he walked Combs and Tom Bilodeau and hit Terry Bartolet with a pitch. Tom Stephenson, a strikeout victim on three previous occasions, came through with a single to score two runs. Pinch hitter Gary Miller walked, and when Bartolet scored on a wild pitch, Branson left the game...
Leading the staff in sophomore Paul Del Roset, a lefthander with a 5-0 won-last reserved and a sparkling LOT earned run average. He'll pitch Saturday against the Linener Bob Kesbier, a strikeout one who ten had his troubles this senses...
...once struck out 18 batters in a single game, proved it was no fluke. Koufax fanned seven Phillies, raised his season strike-out total to 269, breaking Christy Mathewson's 58-year-old National League record. Koufax has now disposed of 952 batters in 948 innings-best strikeout record in history. > After one brief season in retirement, former Yankee Manager Casey Stengel, 71, agreed to get back in uniform for one more year and exercise his gravel-voiced strategy from one more big-league dugout. Beginning next spring, Stengel will manage the New York Mets of the expanded National...