Pitch and yaw in the AL East

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: June 4, 1995| Author: | Copyright information

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Reality bit New York and Baltimore Wednesday, right about the time they looked at the box score and realized what Tim Wakefield had wrought. Here they all were on the Randy Johnson side of the Earth, trying to find their ways home, when, with Aaron Sele and Vaughn Eshelman in the air and Roger Clemens in Pawtucket, Wakefield came down from above, won two games in four days, turned what could have been a 3-6 trip into 6-3 and changed the face of an American League East that has the ...