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...PLACE as laden with committees churning out reports as Harvard, it's hard to take reviews of policy very seriously--they go on all the time, after all, and nothing much seems to change. The wise governance of a review committee here probably involves, in fact, not making too many promises about results for fear that they will not materialize...
When the Reds split the opening games in Boston, we all knew that they would return to Cincinnati and sweep the Sox in three games, right. Wrong. First it was Rick Wise limiting the Reds to two runs in game three. "He really was hitting that outside corner," Carlton Fisk said afterwards. The Sox take a 2-1 lead...
...then the return to good old Fenway, where the Sox needed but one win to become undisputed champs for the first time since 1918, or a lot of foul balls ago. Once again, Rick Wise was called upon to pitch "the most important game of his life" as Dick Stockton likes to say, the fifth most important game of his life in the last month, that...
...Wise's opponent was Gary Nolan, and after three innings, there were nothing but zeroes on the scoreboard. With Joe Morgan batting in the top of the fourth, the game had to be stopped because some unruly fans were descending from the aisles onto the Reds' dugout. They apparently misunderstood the meaning of standing room only tickets...
First came Cecil Cooper, who hit one deep into the short-stop hole, so deep that even the rangy Dave Concepcion could barely reach it. Bernie Carbo, pinchhitting for Wise, then walked on four pitches. Goodbye Nolan, and hello Pedro Borbon...