Word: yastrzemskis
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There are two orbs high in the sky. Over on the side, the moon. It is full, bright, and irrelevant. And in the center, 120 feet above the diamond, the ball is frozen. Sweep down to the plate. Carl Yastrzemski is wound up in an arc, his face etched in a wide, silent scream. Sweep around in a dizzy circle. Thirty thousand necks upstretched, lungs roaring up in desperation. Sweep wider, around a city, a hundred miles, New England. The energy of a million stored-up workday hells turned to fervent belief, poised. All that energy, with a terrific whoosh...
Boston scored first, getting to Gullett in the first inning. Denny Doyle tripled down the right field line with one out, and Carl Yastrzemski got him home with a long flyball...
With only one out to go in the top of the ninth, he had a two-hitter going, but he tired. Yastrzemski and Fisk singled, and Fred Lynn doubled to get Boston's second...
...started off the scoring with a lead-off homer by Carlton Fisk.' In the sixth, Carl Yastrzemski scored on a sacrifice fly by Fred Lynn. The next score came in the seventh when pinch hitter Bernie Carbo slammed the first pitch for a home run. In the ninth, Evans hit a two-run blast to tie up the game...
...almost went ahead in the tenth when Yastrzemski hit a ball deep to centerfield with Denny Doyle on first. Reds centerfielder Geronimo caught up to it, though, and the Red Sox were blanked in the rest of the inning...