Word: welched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tuesday, October 31: Film: "Grapes of Wrath," with Henry Fonda. Welch Auditorium, 6 pm. free...
...best pressure hitter that money could buy, the New York Yankees' Mr. October, Reggie Jackson. The other was the finest young fastballer that the sport's best farm system could produce, the Los Angeles Dodgers' new Mr. Koufax, 21-year-old Rookie Bob Welch. For seven minutes of exquisite tension, nine sizzling pitches and six whooshing swings of the bat, the man who has known great autumns and the boy who will know rare summers struggled while the tying and go-ahead Yankee runs waited on base...
...ended in a strikeout, and suddenly the Dodgers led their rematch with the Yankees, two games to zip. Young Welch's achievement vindicated the old-fashioned Dodger way of baseball: scout the hinterlands for raw talent, groom it carefully down on the farm, then bring young players up to the parent club to fill the gaps that age and injury inevitably open during the long, hot summer. Of a 25-man roster, 13 are onetime Dodger farm boys. In contrast, the Yankees built their team by spending big bucks on the free-agent market and have only six home...
...fourth game was a searing drama of pitcher vs. hitter, mano a mano. Bob Welch came into a 3-3 game in the eighth inning and once again blew heat past the big Yankee bats. Six New Yorkers went down in order...
...pinstripes by saving 27 games and compiling an earned run average of 2.01, impressive figures attained by totally unsubtle yet highly effective means: throwing a baseball at better than 95 m.p.h. Facing the Dodgers, Gossage retired six hitters of his own. The Yankees finally got their bats around on Welch in the tenth inning, winning 4-3 on Lou Piniella's opposite-field single. With New York and Los Angeles tied at two games each, the 1978 World Series began all over again...