Sparky Lyle:the closer who went five and a third

Sparky Lyle brought his left-handed stubbornness out of the Yankee bullpen on October 8, 1977 in game four of the American League Championship Series at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City.

The box score is courtesy of Baseball-Reference.com.

The history is part of the lore of Billy Martin and the swashbuckling 1977 Yankees, perhaps a true sixties team in the skewed time warp called big league baseball.