Word: yastrzemskis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Captain Carl Yastrzemski sat glumly outside the shower room, talking privately to some friends, grinding his teeth over belting two Kip Young fastballs three feet short of the bullpen out in center field. "I don't know what to do," he said...
...Star break, when the Red Sox were 57-26. In a decline fueled by injuries, they since then have played below .500 ball. In early July, Shortstop Rick Burleson hurt his ankle and missed 18 games, twelve of which the team lost. The Sox doyen. Carl Yastrzemski. injured his nagging back, then his shoulder, then his wrist. Pepper-Pot Second Baseman Jerry Remy fractured his wrist last month, and is still playing with it taped. Dwight Evans was hit by a pitch and gets dizzy chasing fly balls. Add to that Catcher Carlton Fisk's broken rib, First Baseman...
...their best scoring opportunity in the first. Burleson led off with a single and Remy beat out a bunt, but Rozema struck out Rice, Carl Yastrzemski grounded out, and the Tigers were rolling...
...their non-Yastrzemski runs on a two-run single from Jim Rice in the fourth--his 200th hit--and a sacrifice fly from Carlton Fisk in the third...
...Yastrzemski blasted a two-run double off starter and loser Jack Norris, 3-5, in the fourth...