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Monday, October 28, 1985/The Battalion/Page 7 Royals crowned king K.C. slaughters St. Louis in final game Cheese Sale TAMU Dairy Science Club Jalepeno cheese Sharp cheddar $3. 00 a pound $3. 25 a pound Place orders at MSC on Tuesdays and Fridays 9a.m. to 1p.m. or from any Dairy Science Club membei Associated Pr.ess B KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kan sas City Royals, rallying behind the fie-hit pitching of Bret Saberhagen, completed one of baseball’s most shocking comebacks Sunday night and won their first World Series championship, defeating the St. Lpuis Cardinals 1 1-0 in the decisive seventh game. ■ The Cardinals, who had seen theii 3-1 lead in games vanish along with their hitting, simply collapsed in the final game. ■ What had been billed as the great est seventh-game pitching matchup in more than two decades went up in smoke created by the Royals’ bats. Ifie Cardinals’ ace, 21-game winner John Tudor, couldn't even make it through the third inning and wound up in a Kansas City hospital for stitches after cutting his index finger on an electric fan in the clubhouse. ■ The destruction occurred at the Thuds of platoon outfielder Darryl Motley, who hit a two-run homer and drove in three runs; Steve Bal- boui, who drove in two of Kansas City’s three runs in the third inning; and the suddenly rejuvenated [George Brett, who had four hits. ■ The Royals put the game away with six runs in the fifth inning, dur ing which both pitcher Joaquin An- dujar and Manager Whitey Herzog were ejected by home plate umpire Don Denkinger. Herzog had argued ahitical Denkinger call at first base that fueled the Royals’ winning, nnth-inning rally in Game 6, and consecutive ball calls on inside pitches to Royals catcher Jim Sund- beig brought all the frustration erupted to the surface. ■ While the Royals completed a comeback unprecedented in the [game — recovering not only from a 1{3 deficit in the American League payoffs hut f rom 0-2 and 1-3 disad- yautages in the Series — the Cardi nals faded into offensive oblivion. ■ After leading the National League with a .264 team average during the Season, the Cardinals hit just .185 in the World Series and scored a total of 13 runs. ■ Part of the Cardinals’ offensive wpes probably could be traced to the absence of injured leadofl hittet Vince Coleman, but the lack o( St. Louis hitting also had to be a tribute uj the young, well schooled pitc hing staff of the Rovals. The destruction occurred nt the hands oi platoon outfielder Dan yl Motley, who had a two run homer; Steve Balboni, who drove in two runs; and the suddenly rejuve nated George Brett. T he Royals’ pitchers not only qui eted the St. Louis bats but li ustrated and eventually halted altogether the vaunted running game of the (lardi- nals. The Cards had stolen 3 14 bases during the season, for an average ol nearly two a game, but managed just two swipes in the Set it s against the predominantlv left-handed Royals staff. This night, however, belonged to a 21-year-old right-hander by the name of Saberhagen, whose wife, Janeane, had given birth to their first child, son Drew, the day before. Saberhagen, who had won Game 3 to give the Royals hope, struck out two and walked none. Saberhagen, selected most valu able player, allowed a second-inning single to Jack Clark, then retired 1 1 in a row before giving up another single to Tito Landrum with two out in the fifth inning. He also allowed singles to Ozzie Smith, Andy Van Slyke and T erry Pendleton. Saberhagen pitched the Royals’ first victory ol this Series a six-hitter in Came 3. 1 he Royals’ hitters meanwhile, asked for no quai i< i, and gave none. After dispensing with Tudor, they slugged tneir way through another six St. Louis pitchers, winding up with 14 hits and tin. grea st margin ol victory ever ir the seventh game of a World Series. I he Cardinals used five pitchers in th< f h inning, tying a World Series record set by Baltimore in 1979. In their big inning, die Royals sent 11 men to the plate against Bill Campbell, Jeff Lahti. Rickey Hor ton, Andujar and finally, Bob Forsch, in the process building their biggest winnmg margin of the sea son. They had won two earlier games 10 J Without ?t>* sc , ■ - s i a desig nated hittes the Ren o > <i io,■ JOHN MARE? (96) doses in. 28 Saturday. r the Cardinals, who were in their 14th World Series. The Royals, born of 1969 expansion, had been in the Series only once before, losing in six games to Philadelphia in 1980. No team ever had come back after falling behind 0-2 at home in a Se ries, and only four had rallied from a 1-3 deficit 1 he big inning began when Jim Sandberg singled, chasing Campbell in favor of Lahti. Balboni singled, sending Sundberg to second, and Motley drove in the first run of the inning with a single. Buddy Bianca- lana struck out, and Saberhagen hit into a fielder’s choice, Balboni going to third. Lonnie Smith followed with a two- run double, going to third on the throw home, and Willie Wilson hit an infield single that scored Smith. That was all for Lahti, and Horton relieved. He gave up a single to Brett, whose Series average had slipped below .300 with just one RBI, as Wilson moved to third. Horton was out, Andujar was in, and that’s when the real trouble started Frank W hite singled, scoring Wil son and sending Brett to third, and when the count went 3-2 on Sund- herg. hitting for the second time in th inning, Andujar motioned an griiy to ti ne plate. Andujar and Denkingei met about halfway ix- tween the mound and the plate, and Herzog stormed out. Herzog al ready had accused Denkinger, an \L limp since 1969, of being preju diced toward the Royals after his ninth-inning call at first base in Game 6. This time, Herzog was thrown out for arguing balls and strikes. A k1iiu<; wound-up walkingSund- g red he began to argue again. • his miK he was ejected, bringing on Bob Forsch, who got the final out of the inning. In the process, the Royals tied a World Series record with their six- run inning. The last time a team had a six-run inning in the Series was 1971 when the Baltimore Orioles did it against Pittsburgh. The Royals drew first blood for the fifth time in the Series on Mot ley’s two-run homer off Tudor in the second inning. With one out in the inning, Tudor walked Balboni on a 3-2 pitch. The count on Motley went to 3-1, and he hit a towering foul fly that would easily have landed in the seats had it been fair. On the next pitch, Motley lined his homer into the left-field bleachers, about 15-20 feet fair. Motley, the right-handed half of the Royals’ platoon in right field, had 17 homers in 383 regular-sea son at-bats, but he had only one hit in seven previous World Series at- bats. Tudor hadn’t given up a home run since Bill Madlock of the Los Angeles Dodgers hit one in the sev enth inning of Game 4 of the Na tional League playoffs. It wtis only the fourth home run of the Series and the second for the Royals. By the third inning, Tudor, the winner of Games 1 and 4, was his tory, having walked in another Roy als run before walking off the play ing field. This mess was of his own making. He walked the first hitter, Lonnie Smith, the first time in 127 innings he had walked a leadoff man. After Willie Wilson fouled out to right, Brett tapped a checked swing roller between the mound and third base. Tudor gloved the ball and dropped it, and Brett was credited with an in field single as Smith went to second. Smith and Brett then executed a double steal, Smith beating catchei Darrell Porter’s one-hop throw to third with a belly-whopper slide. White walked on a lull count to load the bases, and the count also went full on Sundberg before Tudor walked him for the first run of the inning. Herzog had seen enough. He went to the mound and signalled for his right-hander, Campbell, to face Balboni. The count was 2-1 on Bal boni when he bounced a single through the left side, scoring Brett and White, and the score was 5-0. 'pepeb * MEXICAN Taco Gobblin Sale Mon 10/28 - Thurs 10/31 after 5 p.m. Good only with this coupon at: 3312 S. 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