Word: yaz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yaz led off the fourth inning and Boston's scoring with a 360-foot homer run into the sixth row of the right field stands. The blast was a slightly straightened version of the long foul he socked in the first inning before settling for a walk...
...sixth, Yaz again led off with a long fly out to left. Scott and Reggie Smith followed with walks, and Cardinal manager Red Schoendienst galloped to the mound to talk to the tiring Hughes. No one was ready in the bullpen, so the bespectacled starter stayed to pitch to Jery Adair. Adair slammed a double-play grounder to third baseman Mike Shannon, who muffed it to load the bases...
...Defender Yaz...
...Yaz charged in--"a million miles an hour," one bleacherite observed--and gunned a strike to catcher Russ Gibson to get the sliding Javier for the third...
Then on the first pitch the Card's next time up, Curt Flood hit a screaming shot toward the wall. The fabulous Yaz, off with the bat's crack, leaped three feet off the ground, stuck up his glove and speared the ball backhanded before crashing to the ground. Even St. Louis announcer Harry Caray couldn't restrain himself. "Yastrzemski is clearly a super star," he gagged...