Word: dodgerism
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...Dodger farm boys challenge those Yankee dandies...
...ended in a strikeout, and suddenly the Dodgers led their rematch with the Yankees, two games to zip. Young Welch's achievement vindicated the old-fashioned Dodger way of baseball: scout the hinterlands for raw talent, groom it carefully down on the farm, then bring young players up to the parent club to fill the gaps that age and injury inevitably open during the long, hot summer. Of a 25-man roster, 13 are onetime Dodger farm boys. In contrast, the Yankees built their team by spending big bucks on the free-agent market and have only six home...
Both teams had their troubles over the course of the season, and their separate solutions to the problems of tenacious foes, injured heroes and warring locker-room egos outline equally separate paths to the World Series showdown. This year the one-big-happy-family of Dodger Manager Tommy Lasorda was not quite so happy. Unlike last season, Los Angeles struggled through the early months, swapping the lead with the Cincinnati Reds, then falling behind the San Francisco Giants. It wasn't until the last week of August that the Dodgers entered first place to stay, and that after...
...thermometer hovered around 40, the concession stands ran out of coffee and hot chocolate long before the Yankees ran out of hits. The Yankee nine sent two Dodger pitchers to the showers with 11 hits in the first four innings...
...could tell the Yankees meant business when, in the bottom of the first, they quickly loaded the bases. Although they failed to score in that inning, the Yankees soon came back steaming. After a perfectly-executed Dodger hit-and-run tallied a second Los Angeles score, the Yankees went to work...