Word: bullpens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Middle-inning relief is often considered pivotal in setting up the ace of the bullpen. Whenever the starting pitcher gets past the seventh inning, the manager considers it an extra advantage, as the middle relievers get some needed rest, Last year, one hurler pitched at least seven innings in 30 games, leading the majors, Name...
Director Jerry Zaks makes his intentions plain even before the characters really start talking. From a men's room tucked into the corner of a scabrous press bullpen in a criminal-courts building, out walk a trollop and a policeman adjusting his clothes after what has obviously been a brief but close encounter. Gradually the room fills with journalists who gamble, politicians who steal, gangsters who peddle influence, and an editor who employs leg breakers to circulate his paper. This is a town festering with corruption, and everyone aspires only to scrabble to the top of the dung heap. Life...
...Cole praises the Mets for being "a great team." But this was even truer of the Red Sox than of the Mets. Everyone agrees that the Mets were vastly more talented than Boston. The Red Sox had no speed and no bullpen; New York was rich in both. The Mets should have won, and it would have been surprising if they had not. Boston was not even picked to win its own division, because the individual talent looked unpromising. But they almost won the Series because the sum was greater than the parts--in short they were a great team...
...Jesse Orosco came out of the bullpen and got Rich Gedman on a line drive to second, struck out Dave Henderson and got pinch-hitter Don Baylor to ground out to short...
After Clemens threw ball one to Brian Downing,Red Sox Pitching Coach Bill Fischer walkedhurriedly to the mound to talk with his strugglingace. With the visit over--and Sammy Stewartwarming up for Boston in the bullpen--Downinglined a two-run single into the left-field corner...