Monday, October 28, 1985/The Battalion/Page 7
Royals crowned king
K.C. slaughters St. Louis in final game
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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
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JOHN MARE?
(96) doses in.
28 Saturday.
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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.
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