Word: torrez
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Erstwhile Yankee Mike Torrez, who has lost eight of his last nine starts, held on for nine innings to dump the Detroit Tigers by a score of 1-0, in a true September nerveeater of a game...
Faltering Mike Torrez, now 15-12, took the loss for the Sox-it was his sixth defeat in his last seven starts. Dave Rozema, 9-10, went the distance for the Tigers to pick...
...until last week, the Yanks would still be in it; as it is, they are lucky to be only ten games behind (14 a week ago). The difference may well have been Steinbrenner's incomprehensible cheapness, after spending millions to get a championship club, in dealing with Mike Torrez. Steinbrenner would not give Torrez, winner of two Series games and 17 others last year, the extra half-million or so he wanted, so Torrez split for the Sox. If his 12-5 record were with the Yankees rather than the Sox this year, the story might be very different...
...Mike Torrez went the route, yielding nine hits and getting out of numerous jams unscathed, and secured his eleventh win of the year, the most by any righthander in baseball to date. His Houdiniest mound maneuver of the day came in the fifth, when Baltimore had the bases loaded with none out only to have Torrez retire them without...
...lucky as Torrez was, Baltimore's Dennis Martinez was the picture of ill will as his record dropped to 6-5. It started as early as the bottom of the first, when as with two outs Jim Rice smashed his ninth triple of the season to right field, and Ken Singleton chased and kicked the ball just long enough for Rice to comehome with an unearned...