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THE BATTALION
MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1981
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Sunday’s
Results
Monday’s
Games
Sunday’s Results
Monday’s
Games
California 9, Texas 2
Baltimore 5, New York 2
Boston 6, Cleveland 2
Chicago 13, Minnesota 12
Detroit 3, Milwaukee 2
Oakland 4, Kansas City 3
Seattle 2, Toronto 0
Kansas City at Clevelamd
end of regular season
Houston 5, Los Angeles 3
St. Louis 4, Pittsburgh 0
Philadelphia 2, Chicago 1
New York 2, Montreal 1
Cincinnati 3, Atlanta 0
San Francisco 4, San Diego 0
end of regular season
Rangers end season on bad note
United Press International
ARLINGTON — One of those
little known facts in baseball is that
there are only two Vermont bom
players currently on major league
rosters. And they are both Texas
Rangers: pitcher Len Whitehouse
and first baseman Pat Putnam.
Whitehouse Sunday became
the first Vermont-bom pitcher to
start a major league game since
1920. But if Sunday’s performance
is any indication, it may be
another 60 years before a Vermont
pitcher starts in a major league
game.
Whitehouse, called up from
Wichita at the end of August, en
tered the game with a 16.2 earned
run average. The results were
perhaps predicatable.
He was shelled for four runs
and six hits in just 1 and 2-3 in
nings by California. The Angels
went on to crush the Rangers 9-2
in the season finale at Arlington
Stadium.
For California, Mike Witt, 8-9,
a California native, turned in a fine
performance, scattering 10 hits
and striking out five.
He was victimized by an out
field throwing error in the second
that accounted for one run and in
the ninth he gave up an RBI
double.
Led by Don Baylor, who went 4
for 5 and drove in two runs, the
Angels stroked 15 hits off three
pitchers.
The Angels took a 2-0 lead in the
first inning, scoring runs on a sing
le by Baylor and a throwing error.
Whitehouse, 0-1, was chased
when Rick Burleson gave Califor
nia a 4-0 lead in the second. His
two-out single drove in Brian Har
per and Steve Lubratisch, who
had back-to-back singles with one
out.
Texas scored its first in the
second. Bump Wills was hit by a
pitch to lead off and stole second.
He scored on a throwing error
when Leon Roberts followed with
a single up the middle.
A sacrifice fly by Harper scored
Joe Ferguson in tbe third for a 5-1
lead and Baylor made it 6-1 an
inning later, singling home Brian
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chaml LOS ANGELES — It meant nothing in the final standings, but the
lefirsBouston Astros may have gotten an important psychological lift by
Teafteating the Los Angeles Dodgers in their regular season finale,
in Ail Hie 5-3 victory Sunday, made possible by Alan Knicely’s home run
ehimi ir the eighth and key doubles by Dickie Thon and Dave Roberts in the
it thpinth, was the first of the season for the Astros at Dodger Stadium after
if 2-1 live straight losses,
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xirinil 0 vert h e P 354 6vo seasons, the Astros have lost 11 of their last 13 in
' Enr 05 ^ n 8 e l es > with their only victory before Sunday coming in last
i l)' tar s one-game playoff.
\IjjI The two clubs will meet again in the playoffs — this time in a
c , st , Ibest-of-five series beginning Tuesday night in Houston to determine
wheff 16 National League West champions. To stay alive, the Astros will
tllbve to win at least one game in Los Angeles,
vitkil 1 think it’s important for us to win the first two games at home,"
^ ^Ikstros’manager Bill Virdon said. “We have been having a pretty tough
g .;/.time up here.
six ill Tm not saying we can’t win here, but it’s very important to win at
um»J|ome, where we have two games against a possible three away in the
Rlayoffs. We’ve had our problems scoring runs in Los Angeles, but I’m
gjjji hopeful we ll get over that. ”
ilaytf ^ wo Young Award candidates — Fernando Valenzuela and
tear Nolan Ryan — will be matched up in Tuesday night’s opener.
' jji, Valenzuela finished his rookie season with a 13-7 record, 2.48 ERA
j and league leaderships in innings pitched (192), strikeouts (180), com-
oatwfflete games (11) and shutouts (8).
,jpJ Ryan, meanwhile, was 11-5 with a league-leading 1.69 ERA and a
t|01) major league record fifth no-hitter.
I The majority of their hitters are lefthanders and that should give
ime an advantage,” said Valenzuela, who lost his last three decisions.
1 Tn spite of my three losses I have been feeling good and I think I am
)/) jin proper shape for this game. When I lost, maybe the other pitcher
' v was throwing better. ”
Ryan predicted it would be a pitchers’ series.
"We definitely have quality pitching and our pitchers know the
Dodgers well. Overall, I feel I am at the top of my game. Right now
everything seems to have fallen in place for me.”
Dodger Manager Tom Lasorda knows a new season starts Tuesday,
It’s a whole new game, ” he said. “Statistics don’t mean anything. I
lelieve we are ready. We’ve been there before. We know what it’s all
about.”
Ryan said the playoff experience the Astros gained last season should
:lp them, too.
"This is a more determined team than last year, and experience is a
geat thing to have,” he said. “You can’t put a value on it.”
On Sunday, the Astros tied the score in the eighth on Knicely’s
second homer of the season, off Dave Goltz. In the ninth, Thon led off
with a double and later scored on Gary Woods’ single. After Woods
was out attempting to stretch it into a double, Scott Loucks singled and
scored on Roberts’ double.
Dave Smith, 5-3, who entered the game in the eighth as the fourth
Astros pitcher, picked up the victory while Goltz fell to 2-7.
Despite having only 56 home dates because of the players’ strike,
the Dodgers drew 2,387,292 this season for an average of 42,523 per
game, the highest in major league history.
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