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Even sweeter, for the Atlanta Braves, was a seventh-game, ninth-inning / single by anonymous Francisco Cabrera, the answer to many a bar bet in the next century. Sid Bream chugged toward home plate and slid in under the catcher's tag. In a melodramatic rally that matched Bobby Thomson's "shot heard around the world" for the New York Giants in 1951, the Braves edged the Pittsburgh Pirates to send the team with baseball's best recent record home heartbroken for a third straight year...
Nixon stole 72 bases until his suspension for drugs. Pendleton led the league in batting at .319 and hits with 187 and tightened the infield defense, as did Bream and shortstop Rafael Belliard, another free agent pickup...
...McIlvaine, vice president of baseball operations for the San Diego Padres. "Bobby Cox got beat over the head for four years as general manager while he was quietly drafting good, young left-handed pitchers. Suddenly, this year, they all came together. They added Otis Nixon, Terry Pendleton and Sid Bream, and when the good pitching kicked in, it had good defense behind...
...Everybody still has the attitude that we've got to go out and play hard." Bream said Monday night before the Braves lost 8-5 to the San Francisco Giants at Candles-tick Park...
Manager Bobby Cox said Smith will play left field full-time the rest of the season, and that he expects the Braves not to be slowed any less than they were without Justice or Bream...