Word: balled
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...League, talent carries a curse of its own. The New York Mets, predicted first every season, but whose favorite finishing spot is second, enjoyed a splendid June that propelled them near the top of the N.L. East. For the other five months, though, the Mets have played just .500 ball, allowing the Pittsburgh Pirates -- a team too young to bathe in flop sweat -- nearly unimpeded access to first place. In the N.L. West, the Cincinnati Reds, champions-designate since their springtime sprint from the gate, curled up in a summerlong slumber. Only the mediocrity of their California pursuers -- the Dodgers...
...close are they now? And how far have they come? Anyone who watched the past two World Series knows the answer. In 1988 the A's, a new power in championship ball but prohibitive favorites even then, got psyched out by the crippled Dodgers. Like a rock 'n' roller when Elvis died, every A's fan remembers where he was at that fateful moment in Game 1 -- bottom of the ninth, Oakland leading 4-3 on a Canseco grand slam -- when Kirk Gibson hobbled . to the plate and gritted a game-winning home run off Eckersley. Sobbing was heard among...
...winning team hit five home runs in one game; in both, no contest was decided by fewer than three runs. Canseco twitched off the Dodgers jinx and launched one of his ho-hum homers into the 900 area code. Eckersley, accused during the Toronto play-offs of doctoring the ball, hardly needed to suit up, let alone sand up, as the A's performed what amounted to surgery without anesthesia. At the end, in the champagneless locker room, the satisfied heart of A's manager Tony La Russa could be seen beating beneath a T shirt that promoted The Ballet...
...disaster, though, that shrouded the series. Both the A's and the Giants donated part of the take to earthquake relief, but the charity seemed inadequate. To many the very phrase Play ball! sounded irresponsible. And how do you celebrate in a Bay Area sapped by mourning? Through no fault of the winners, their victory was tainted. The A's owed their fans one season, beginning to end, of efficient ecstasy. That was the vow, and in 1990 they are a long way toward achieving...
Restic will be counting on Lazarre-White to get the ball to those wide-open receivers, especially tight end Andy Lombara, whom Hofher rated as one of the league's best players. Harvard's 20th-year coach said he planned to open up the Multiflex this week and even promised to unleash a trick play...