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...hops in the infield, and rare errors by Joe Morgan and Dave Conception paved a yellow brick basepath early for the Yankees. However, the best the Bronx Bombers could manage were two scattered runs in the first and fifth innings on clutch hits by Chris Chambliss and Thurman Munson...
True, the Yankees did win the pennant by beating the Kansas City Royals. But they did it with a patchwork of many of the best players in the American League, only four of whom came up through their farm system. Thurman Munson and Roy White, two of the Yankees who made it up from the Syracuse farm club, will be no match for their Cincinnati counterparts, Johnny Bench and George Foster...
...catcher, the Yanks do have a slight advantage offensively, because Munson had a great year and Bench didn't. But Bench did come out of the playoffs with a bang, hammering the ball out of Riverfront Stadium in the last of the ninth in the final game. Defensively, Bench has it all over Munson. Long ago, Bench learned that to throw someone out at second, you should throw overhand...
...Munson learned that lesson late in his catching career--last week, to be precise. Thurman will need a lot of practice before this afternoon's contest if he wants to contain some of the Red's runners. As of September 21, Joe Morgan had 58 stolen bases, Griffey had 33 and Concepcion had 20. Dan Driessen, a substitute infielder, has swiped 14 bases in 15 attempts...
...Yankees pulled into the lead in the bottom of the third after Rivers bounced a single up the middle and loped home on Munson's second RBI single. Chambliss made it 4-3 for New York when White scored on his infield roller...