Word: innings
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...that smalltown sports play in their dreams. Greenleaf won the bank with a perfect shot. His ball was flat against the rail. Then Rudolph broke cleanly, without leaving Greenleaf a shot, but as they kept on it looked more and more like Greenleaf's evening. By the seventeenth inning he had 118, 45 balls ahead of Rudolph. There were seven balls on the table - exactly the number Greenleaf needed to win, but he missed a long one. Rudolph made a run of 14, another of 23, won the match, the championship...
...ball games if you don't score runs," was about all he had to say. Doubtless Gabby Street was thinking how earlier that afternoon the arm of big George Earnshaw of the Athletics, 6 ft. 4 in. Swarthmore alumnus, had moved back and forth, inning after inning, while the Cardinal batters took turns striking out, grounding out, popping out. Street had made one mistake himself. Instead of putting in his best fresh pitcher, Haines, when Wild Bill Hallahan blew up, he had tried first Sylvester Johnson, then Jim Lindsey. The Philadelphians had hit both of them hard. St. Louis...
...Burleigh Grimes of the Cardinals was well aware that his job had been made no easier by the way Manager Mack had accepted Street's dare. Other things being equal, Grimes would need a little luck to win. Luck came to him, but it was bad. In the second inning Foxx hit, low and long. In right field, Blades of St. Louis lunged for the hit as it bounced off the wall. He hurried his throw and dropped the ball. Foxx went on to third. Later, in the sixth, hard-hitting Third Baseman Dykes of the Athletics...
...mistakes. The day before they had systematically annoyed the Athletics' Mickey Cochrane, "greatest catcher in baseball." When he came to bat the St. Louis henchmen had flapped their hands beside their heads, chanting softly "Mule ears. Mule ears." Annoyed, Cochrane had knocked a homer. Now in the first inning they goaded him again. He made another homer...
...fourth inning was all the Cardinals needed. Right Fielder Watkins made a homer and most of the line-up hit safely, bringing in seven runs. They got three more in the sixth. When the last Pittsburgh batter was out, the Cardinals slapped each other on the back as they tossed their gloves away, and started across the field to the dressing room. It was the last game they needed to make sure of the National League pennant, and the 10,000 fans who had turned out for them in the chilly weather were yelling and throwing out torn-up score...