Word: dodgerism
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...bitter joke afterward: What better champion for the phoniest of baseball seasons than the Los Angeles Dodgers? Hooray for Hollywood. Former Dodger Pitcher Don Sutton used to keep a telegram (and his perspective) tacked on his locker, six MILLION BEST WISHES, it read; signed LEE AND FARRAH FAWCETT-MAJORS. Sutton loved to laugh and say: "Nice of their publicist to do it." One wall of the Dodger Stadium office of Tommy Lasorda, the manager who kisses and hugs his players like a game-show host, is a shrine to Frank Sinatra. What better place to hang this year...
...something else. Second Baseman Davey Lopes defined it: "Character." It may be that Dodger Third Baseman Ron Cey too has been touched with a bit of this magic. He hit a three-run homer and made a diving catch of a double-play bunt...
...Dodger right fielder was 3 for 15 before the seventh inning of yesterday's game, but he also slammed an 0-1 pitch from Guidry deep into the left-center-field bleachers, tying the game...
Guidry then worked the count on Yeager to 1-2 before the Dodger catcher jacked a chest-high fastball into the stands, near the spot where Guerrero's shot had landed...
...Dodger victory was marred, however, when third baseman Ron Cey was beaned by a pitch from reliever Rich Gossage in the eighth. Gossage had thrown one strike to the Dodger infielder, when he next pitch, a 94 MPH fastball, hit Cey in the helmet...