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Royals facing elimination again
Blue Jays have chance to clinch in Game 6
Associated Press
TORONTO — George Brett
doesn’t like the situaiiAii his Kansas
City Royals are in, but he’s seen it so
many times that he thinks it might
work to their advantage.
“Maybe it’s the experience of los
ing so many playoff games and the
only World Series we were in,” Brett
said. “It could help. No one’s up
tight about it (being down to To
ronto in the series 3-2).”
Once again, the Royals will be fac
ing elimination in the American
League playoffs when they go into
Game 6 Tuesday night against the
Toronto Blue Jays.
Toronto could have wrapped up
the best-of-seven series Sunday in
Kansas City, but lost 2-0. The Blue
Jays now return to familiar Exhibi
tion Stadium and can bring the first
World Series to Canada by winning
either Tuesday night or in Game 7
Wednesday night.
"If we can’t win one out of two, we
don’t deserve to be there,” said To
ronto’s Jesse Barfield, who has six
hits and four runs batted in through
five games.
“I’m looking forward to practice
tomorrow (Monday) to work on
some things,” he said. “To get some
rest Monday night and come back
strong Tuesday.”
The Blue Jays got eight hits off
Danny Jackson in the Game 5, the
same number of hits by Kansas City.
But Toronto, which hit nearly .300
with runners in scoring position dur
ing the regular season and was 11-
for-38 in those situations during the
playoffs, did not get any timely hits.
“I just want to leave this game in
Kansas City and get home,” Toron
to’s Lloyd Moseby said. “We didn’t
get the job done.”
So Moseby and his teammates
packed up their equipment — and
their still-corked champagne — and
headed back to Toronto, where they
will face surprise starter Mark Gu-
bicza in Game 6.
Gubicza, a starting pitcher the en
tire season, began the playoffs in the
bullpen. He was odd-man-out when
Kansas City Manager Dick Howser
set up a rotation of left-handers
Charlie Leibrandt, Bud Black and
Danny Jackson, along with righty
Bret Saberhagen.
But Howser’s plans changed Sun
day when Jackson started while
Black, who was scheduled to pitch
Game 6, got ready in the bullpen.
“We had decided before t,he game
that if we needed a left-hander.
Black would be it,” Howser said.
“Buddy Black was up twice and
threw a lot of pitches out there.
“Everybody was in the bullpen,
Bret and everybody,” he said. “We
had to win. It’ll probably be the same
situation Tuesday night.”
So, Howser won the game but lost
a starting pitcher. It was a trade he
did not mind making.
“Gubicza pitched well for us this
season,and I don’t hesitate going to
him,” he said. “He’s one of the rea
sons we’re here.”
Gubicza was 14-10, including an
August loss to Toronto when he got
shelled in his only outing against the
Blue Jays.
Cards Win
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play, and Herr held at second. Herr,
who homered in Game 3, wound up
at third shortly thereafter, however,
when Valenzuela threw the ball into
center field on an attempted pickoff.
The Cards failed to score Herr as
Jack Clark lined out hard to Bill
Madlock at third, Cesar Cedeno
struck out and Tito Landrum, Cole
man’s replacement in left field, flied
to center.
The double was Herr’s fourth of
the playoffs, tying a record set by
Pete Rose of Cincinnati and Matty
Alou of Oakland, both in 1972. And
the RBI were the fourth and fifth in
the series for Herr, who had 1 10
during the season.
The Cardinals again had the first
two runners of the second inning
aboard on a double by Terry Pendle
ton and a walk to Darrell Porter.
Forsch sacrificed the runners to sec
ond and third, but McGee struck out
and Smith popped deep to shortstop
Mariano Duncan to end the threat.
In the fourth inning, the Dodgers
tied the score on Madlock’s second
home run in as many days but lost an
opportunity to go ahead when the
Cardinals turned a double play.
Ken Landreaux led off the fourth
with a single up the middle. Guer
rero then hit a fly ball to the warning
track in center field for the first out,
bringing up Madlock, who had hit a
solo homer off John Tudor in a 12-2
loss Sunday.
Madlock lined a 2-0 pitch from
Forsch into the second deck in left
field to tie the score 2-2 and give him
five RBI for the series. Forsch then
walked Mike Marshall, bringing up
Scioscia.
Twice Forsch pitched out while
Scioscia was at bat, apparently hedg
ing against the hit-and-run. The first
time. Porter had Marshall hung up
between first and second, but his
throw was wide of first and in the
ground. First-baseman Clark made a
nice back-handed pickup of the one-
hopper to keep Marshall at first.
But, on the second pitchout, Por
ter lunged for the ball as Scioscia
swung, and Scioscia took first when
his bat made contact with the catch
er’s glove for interference. Forsch
threw one pitch to the next batter,
Greg Brock, who lined it foul into
the right-field seats.
And that was the end of a day’s
work for Forsch, who was 9-6 as a
spot starter during the season but
finished 3-1 while occupying a
steady spot in the rotation in Sep
tember. Left-hander Ken Dayley was
brought on to face pinch-hitter Enos
Cabell, who grounded into a routine
double play started by Pendleton at
third.
Valenzuela was in trouble again in
the fourth and fifth innings, but
emerged unscathed.
With two out in the fourth, Valen
zuela walked Porter for the second
time in the game, and Dayley, who
batted only five times with two hits
during the regular season, singled
up the middle, sending Porter to sec
ond. Valenzuela got out of the in--
ning by striking out McGee for the
second time.
There again were two outs in the
Cardinals fifth when Clark singled
into right field. He advanced to sec
ond on a wild pitch that bounced at
least a foot in front of the plate, and
after going 3-0 on Cedeno, Valen
zuela walked him •intentionally.
Landrum then bounced into a forc-
eout at third.
The Dodgers wasted a leadoff sin
gle by Landreaux in the sixth. Land
reaux singled for the second time to
center field, but Guerrero and Mad
lock both flied to right, and Dayley
made a sprawling stop of a hard _
come-backer by Marshall for the
third out.
In the seventh, the Dodgers lost
an even better opportunity when a
walk to Scioscia and a single by Ca
bell chased Dayley with none out.
Rookie power pitcher Todd Worrell
came in and threw three straight
balls to Steve Sax, who was trying to
bunt. Worrell then struck him out.
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