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...indeed it was a photo finish. The Sox seemingly had the contest and the pennant wrapped up after touching Yankee ace Ron Guidry for two runs in the first five innings--one on a towering Yaz homer in the second, the other on a Jim Rice single...
First it fell on Carl Yastrzemski. If we extend the Peloponnesian War metaphor, it's hard to deny that Yaz has forever been Achilles in Boston, sulking and slugging for 18 years, first through determination then idolatry. No one will ever doubt Yastrzemski's indispensibility on the baseball field, and no one was surprised when his adrenalin-powered shot found its way around the right field foul poll and into the seats for the game's first run in the second. And when Yaz popped to third for the final out of the game, myths may have been shattered about...
While the left-handed Guidry settled down after that point, Torrez tossed a wicked slider and mixed his pitches well, matching his ex-teammate goose-egg-for-goose-egg on the scoreboard. It looked as if Yaz's shot might stand...
...lyric Fenway came abuzz in the bottom of the eighth, as Remy ripped a double off "The Goose"; and then Yaz singled; and then Carlton Fisk singled; and then Fred Lynn did too. The gap had closed to 5-4 with just one out, and it seemed as though there might, indeed, be some joy in Mudville tonight...
Butch Hobson contributed to the onpour with two doubles and a single. Scott, Burleson, Remy and Fisk combined their singles for two runs. And it all came down with a grunt in the eighth, when Fisk walked, Yaz singled, and Lynn tripled off the left field wall for two runs. Hobson's long single off the center field wall in that inning brought in two more. All told, the Sox banged out 16 hits...