Word: yastrzemskis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Triple Crown Slugger Carl Yastrzemski, with nine hits and three homers in the first six games, managed only a single in four trips to the plate. Righthander Jim Lonborg, trying for a third Series victory on two days rest, came out wild and weary. Manager Dick Williams kept praying until the sixth inning, then mercifully took him out. By then, St. Louis had a six-run lead and the game was long gone...
...emphasize that truth, Carl Yastrzemski suddenly steps out into the players' parking lot dressed in jacket and tie. As the crowd roars, he shakes hands with Cardinal star Lou Brock, manages a weak smile, then climbs into his car. The huge screened gates swing into the crowd and Yaz slips off into the darkness. The lights above go out again...
...went into the series as 3 to 2 series favorites, while Boston was still reeling from one of the most frantic four-team pennant scrambles in American League history. That the Red Sox made it at all was due largely to the heroics of their two stars: Leftfielder Carl Yastrzemski, 28, winner of batting's triple crown (.326 average, 44 home runs, 121 RBIs), who got seven hits in his final eight times at bat, and Fireballing Righthander Jim Lonborg, 25, who locked up the pennant and his 22nd victory (v. nine losses) by cutting down the Minnesota Twins...
...though, was Righthander Nelson Briles, 24, until last week a journeyman speed-bailer with only four complete games all season. He allowed the Red Sox seven hits and two runs, but for nine long innings last week no one could fault him in the clutch-least of all Carl Yastrzemski, whom he forced into ground outs three times, all three of them with men on base...
...lucked out in the third on a succession of weak rollers. Batting leadoff in the desperately rearranged Boston lineup. Joe Foy singled. Mike Andrews sacrificed him over to second and made it safe to first on an error. But then Yastrzemski whiffed...