Word: leadoff
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Dorrington breezed through the first four innings, facing the minimum 12 batters without allowing a hit. But after walking the leadoff hitter in the fifth, the junior right-hander dished up a mammoth home run to Eagle first baseman Lance Wallin, spoiling his shutout and knotting the score...
Welch gave up a leadoff single to Steve Sax and struck out the next four batters. He fanned eight in four innings and took a 1-0 lead into the fifth before Los Angeles scored...
...first balls. Chicago's most sentimental pitcher, Rick Sutcliffe, took the mound. "It's like sunshine and Wrigley are saying goodbye to each other," he thought, though only eight night games are scheduled this season and just 18 a year for the calculable future. Looking hard at the Phillies' leadoff man, Phil Bradley, and straight into a light show of Instamatic flashes, Sutcliffe was struck by history -- and Bradley...
Freshman centerfielder Marcel Durand, batting in the leadoff slot for Harvard, unloaded three hits and knocked in a run. Fellow Yardling Bob Bincarousky's two-RBI single in the eighth was more than enough to inter the terrible Techies...
Upon first sight of Damon, the voracious Crimson licked its collective lips. In warmups he conceded a lack of power by throwing an array of timid breaking balls. Marcel Durand, the Crimson leadoff batter made the hurler look even more vulnerable when he laced a single into right field. But for the next eight-and-one-third innings, Damon was untouchable...