Word: bunting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chose Lowenstein to win me the ballgame," Baltimore manager Earl Weaver said after the ballgame, explaining why he didn't call for a sacrifice bunt in that situation. "I figured it was as good a shot as we were going to get all night...
...Weaver does not win games fighting with umpires. He wins with his own distinctive style of managing. He does not believe inflexibly in the sacrifice bunt, the hit-and-run or, for that matter, the supposedly hallowed rule that left-handed hitters hit better against right-handed pitchers, and vice versa. He does believe-in The Stats. The Stats, those mysterious denizens of a huge, battered filing cabinet in Weaver's Baltimore office, show every Oriole hitter's performance-lifetime, seasonal and last week-against every American League pitcher. Boston Manager Don Zimmer will start the same...
Nurthen served Kelley a perfect pitch to bunt, but the junior missed the ball completely and Marshall was nailed easily at home...
...different Harvard squad that took Bill Beck Field yesterday. First-year coach Alex Nahigian's bunt and double-steal oriented philosophy had been waylaid, the hitters were suddenly aggressive throughout the order, and the pitching staff took a giant step toward consistency...
Dales pushed his tee shot into the woods and had to take an unplayable. His third shot caught an overhanging limb and dropped back down into the underbrush. After raining several more futile blows on the unbudging ball, he choked down on a wedge to bunt it out of a bush and then got up and down for his eight...