Word: two-run
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Last week the season rose to a climax as Cuba, Panama, Puerto Rico and Venezuela met in Panama in a round-robin fight for the twelfth annual Caribbean championship. When Panama's Elias Osorio hit a two-run homer over the wall to beat Venezuela in the bottom of the ninth, he was waylaid by a delirious mob on the third-base line. Frantic hands clutched his sleeve, pounded his back, hoisted him high and then dropped him. Waiting at home plate, Umpire Pat Orr fumed as he fought to keep his feet in the crush. "Be patient...
...ANGELES, Oct. 4--Aging Carl Furillo came through again for the Dodgers with a two-run pinch single in the seventh that propelled Los Angeles to a 3-1 victory over the Chicago White Sox today before a record World Series throng of 92,294 at the uncovered Coliseum...
...Dodger infield is that old pro-and beloved Brook-lynite-First Baseman Gil Hodges, 35, who can still field like a vacuum cleaner and at .293 put the ball game away with his bat. Last week in the first game against the Giants, he slammed a two-run homer; in the second, he slapped a game-winning double. Later, against the Chicago Cubs, Hodges daringly advanced from first to second on a long fly to center, but badly wrenched his right ankle on the slide and was carried off the field...
Center fielder Phil Bernstein, who has been the team's outstanding hitter to date, led the attack with a single and a two-run homer. His round-tripper in the second inning was a towering blast down the right field line and was still rolling when Bernstein crossed the plate...
...National League, the San Francisco Giants trounced the Cardinals, 6 to 3, to take a clean sweep of the three game series and first place in the league. The Los Angeles Dodgers, sparked by Don Demeter's two-run homer in the seventh inning, defeated Chicago's Clubs...