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...Kaline lined to Carl Yastrzemski who, naturally, caught the ball and threw crisply to third base in a vain attempt to double off McAuliffe. It was a good throw, but Dalton Jones couldn't find the handle, and the ball skittered away, letting McAuliffe score. Before the horrible inning was over, Willie Horton got a wind-blown double to center, Freehan another scratch single both off the hapless Culp--and Oyler a run-scoring single off reliever Lee Stange...
...catcher Elston Howard whipped the ball in the general direction of Dalton Jones and third base, as custom dictates. Unfortunately, Jones was busy in the short-stop hole, retrieving the bat which had flown from the fanning Oyler's hands. Howard's throw flew unchallenged into Carl Yastrzemski's pasture where it died on the soggy grass. Yaz started in, stopped, wagged his head both in shame and disgust, and elected to ignore the ball. And, that, shockingly and painfully, was the tone of a sad home opener--Boston looked like the Mets, or, worse, like Red Sox teams...
Rico Petrocelli drove in three runs, Carl Yastrzemski smashed two home runs, and the Impossible Dream, Volume II, rolled through Detroit yesterday as the Red Sox downed the Tigers 7-3 in the season opener...
...Yastrzemski, last year's triple crown winner, belted a solo round-tripper in the seventh and padded Boston's lead with a 420-fool inside-the-park homer in the ninth...
Triple crown winner Carl Yastrzemski and Tony Conigliaro, who sat out the latter part of the season after being seriously injured by a wild pitch, have both dropped off from their last season averages...