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Dennis Eckersley, who had seen Davis hit for power in the American League, became too cautious, reasoning that he would rather risk walking Davis ( assuming that Anderson next up would still prove to be an easy out ), instead of trying to pitch to Davis, and perhaps make a mistake that Davis could hit for a game-tying home run.
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In 2011, Justin Verlander became the first pitcher to be named the MVP since Dennis Eckersley in 1992.
The 1970s were not much better, with the Indians trading away several future stars, including Graig Nettles, Dennis Eckersley, Buddy Bell and 1971 Rookie of the Year Chris Chambliss, for a number of players who made no impact.
In 1977, pitcher Dennis Eckersley threw a no-hitter against the California Angels.
Finally, a " Fourth Dynasty " won three consecutive pennants and the 1989 World Series behind Mark McGwire, Jose Canseco and Dennis Eckersley.
On September 16, 1993, at age 41, he collected his 3, 000th career hit with a single off Oakland Athletics closer Dennis Eckersley.
* Dennis Eckersley, baseball Hall of Famer, lived on Morse Road prior to his years with the Boston Red Sox and on Plympton Road during and after his years with the Red Sox
) As a result, later teams have been more willing to move successful starters — notably Dennis Eckersley, Dave Righetti, and John Smoltz — to the permanent role of closer, with no plans to bring them back to the rotation ( although Smoltz bucked that trend by successfully returning to the rotation in 2005 ).
The Red Sox acquired Buckner from the Cubs for Dennis Eckersley and Mike Brumley on May 25,.
** Dennis Eckersley, Oakland Athletics ( AL )
** Dennis Eckersley, Oakland Athletics ( AL )
** Dennis Eckersley, Oakland Athletics ( AL )
On September 16, 2004, Schilling won his 20th game of the for the Red Sox, becoming the fifth Boston pitcher to win 20 or more games in his first season with the team, and the first since Hall of Famer Dennis Eckersley in 1978.
* Dennis Eckersley, baseball Hall-of-Fame pitcher
Alomar's game-tying, ninth inning home run against Oakland relief ace Dennis Eckersley, in Game 4 of the 1992 American League Championship Series, is considered by many as the most important hit in the club's history, as the team's three previous trips to the ALCS had ended in disappointment ; he was the Most Valuable Player of the ALCS.
In 2002 he became only the second pitcher in history to have had both a 20-win season and a 50-save season ( the other being Hall of Famer Dennis Eckersley ).
Dennis Lee Eckersley ( born October 3, 1954 ), nicknamed " Eck ", is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher.
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In the first game of the 1988 World Series, Dennis Eckersley tried to strike out Kirk Gibson with a slider, but Gibson was sitting on that pitch and hit a game-winning home run.
Those such as Dennis Eckersley, as with many others, actually prolonged their tapering careers and often sparked them to new life.
As of October 2010, five pitchers are currently in the Baseball Hall of Fame chiefly for their accomplishments as relief pitchers: Goose Gossage, Hoyt Wilhelm, Rollie Fingers, Bruce Sutter, and Dennis Eckersley ( although Eckersley and Wilhelm also had significant careers as starting pitchers.
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Brian Wilson Kernighan (; born 1942 ) is a Canadian computer scientist who worked at Bell Labs alongside Unix creators Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie and contributed to the development of Unix.
Charlton and teammate Dennis Viollet swapped places with Tommy Taylor and David Pegg, who had decided they would be safer at the back of the plane.
Mark Bortz holds the record for most Bear playoff appearances, with 13 between 1983 and 1994, and is followed by Kevin Butler, Dennis Gentry, Dan Hampton, Jay Hilgenberg, Steve McMichael, Ron Rivera, Mike Singletary, and Keith Van Horne, who have each played in 12 playoff games.
Michael Collins, pseudonym of Dennis Lynds, is generally considered the author who led the form into the Modern Age.
Syn evaded capture while at the same time making sure that Imogene and Squire Cobtree's son Dennis ( who had fallen in love with Imogene ) would have a happy life together ( they were eventually married ), but was murdered in revenge by the mulatto, who then mysteriously managed to escape, leaving Syn harpooned through the neck.
Dennis Sullivan is remembered as one who had a special talent for encouraging fruitful exchanges among visitors and provoking a new and deeper insight into their ideas.
's as well as vocalists such as Edwin Starr, David Ruffin and Dennis Edwards from The Temptations, and Michael Jackson, who, throughout his career, cited Brown as his ultimate idol.
Cannon is the second-longest continuously serving Republican Speaker in history, having been surpassed by fellow Illinoisan Dennis Hastert, who passed him on June 1, 2006.
Trevor later replaces him with Dennis ( who has a snout resembling male genitalia ) to perform ' nasal sex ' on Madam Bovine.
Most notable was Dennis " Thresh " Fong who won John Carmack's Ferrari 328 at the Microsoft-sponsored Red Annihilation tournament in 1997.
It was updated in early 1991 to mourn the passing of Elvis Presley, Marvin Gaye, Jackie Wilson, Dennis Wilson, John Lennon, Roy Orbison, Sam Cooke, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Cass Elliot, who died a few months after the original version of the song was released.
Many of those who signed on, including John Hurt, Burt Lancaster and Dennis Hopper, did so for less than their usual salaries for a chance to work with the legendary director.
White, who was playing the game with a cast on his broken left hand, fumbled the ball before being hit by Tony Dungy and Pittsburgh linebacker Dennis Winston recovered the ball at the Dallas 18-yard line.
Their secondary was led by Pro Bowl cornerbacks Dennis Smith and Louis Wright, along with Mike Harden, who intercepted 6 passes and returned them for 179 yards and 2 touchdowns.
* Barnaby Kay as Dennis Philby: an English businessman residing in Hong Kong who is driven over the edge by his girlfriend's unexpected pregnancy.
He signed to star in the American revisionist western Hang ' Em High ( 1968 ), featuring alongside Inger Stevens, Pat Hingle, Dennis Hopper, Ed Begley, Alan Hale, Ben Johnson, Bruce Dern, and James MacArthur, playing a man who takes up a Marshal's badge and seeks revenge as a lawman after being lynched by vigilantes and left for dead.
There were also calls for Van Basten to call up Dennis Bergkamp, who had retired from the national team six years earlier for a final " hurrah " as he was retiring that season.
Fragments from those shots struck American tourist Dennis Olson who had been hiding with his wife, Mary, and Winter.
In 1946 he was elected to the national executive board of the party under the new general secretary, Eugene Dennis, a pro-Soviet Marxist-Leninist, who had replaced Earl Browder after the latter's expulsion from the party.
* Dennis Cross, an actor, who starred in The Blue Angels
In moving to Chelsea, Gullit played an important part in the " foreign revolution " as numerous high profile international stars, such as the prolific German World Cup winner Jürgen Klinsmann, Italian superstar Gianfranco Zola who became a Chelsea legend, and Dutch magician Dennis Bergkamp, joined Premiership clubs and helped to increase its worldwide profile.
Reportedly, Gordon Gekko is said to be a composite of several people: Owen Morrisey, who was involved in a $ 20 million insider trading scandal in 1985, Dennis Levine, Ivan Boesky, corporate raider Carl Icahn, art collector Asher Edelman, agent Michael Ovitz, and Stone himself.
* Dennis Haskins: Actor who played Principal Richard Belding on Saved By the Bell.
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