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Thursday, October 20,1988
Page 9
Howell evens score
Reliever shuts down A’s, McGwire
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Reliever Jay Howell got
even by getting Mark McGwire with the bases loaded in
the seventh inning Wednesday night, preserving the Los
Angeles Dodgers’ 4-3 victory over the Oakland Athletics
and moving them within one game of the World Series
championship.
The crippled Dodgers will try to win their sixth title and
first since 1981 when ace Orel Hershiser faces Storm Davis
in Game 5 Thursday night. Of the 35 teams that took a 3-1
lead in the Series, 30 went on to win.
Howell, victimized by McGwire’s game-winning home
|run in the ninth inning a night earlier, got revenge this
time. He relieved starter Tim Belcher with two outs in the
seventh ahead 4-3, but a walk and error loaded the bases.
McGwire, just 1-for-13 in the Series, swung at a first-
pitch fastball and popped it straight up to first baseman
Tracy Woodson. Howell finished for a save in the same
ballpark where fans constantly booed him last year when
ae pitched for the A’s.
He ended it by striking out A’s home run king Jose Can
seco, who hit a grand slam in the first game, on a 3-2 pitch
with the tying run on first and getting Dave Parker on a
foul pop to third.
The Dodgers ended a streak of 13 consecutive victories
by the home team in the World Series. They did it the hard
way, with top hitters Kirk Gibson and Mike Marshall un
able to start because of injuries and catcher Mike Scioscia
forced to leave with a twisted right knee in the fourth in
ning.
Oakland’s starting lineup had out-homered Los Angeles
132-36 this season, but Belcher and Howell continued the
Athletics’ Series-long slump.
Belcher, just the third pitcher to start in the Series on his
birthday — he turned 27 — went 6 2-3 innings and al
lowed three runs, two of them earned, on seven hits.
Dave Stewart, the two-time 20-game winner, took the
loss. He gave up four runs, only two hits in 6'A innings.
Neither team played particularly well. Oakland made
two errors and Los Angeles one, although there were seve
ral other sloppy plays.
Dave Henderson, who had four of Oakland’s nine hits,
doubled home Walt Weiss, who singled, in the seventh.
That finished Belcher, and Howell walked Canseco on five
pitches before usually reliable shortstop Alfredo Griffin
dropped a liner by Dave Parker, loading the bases and
bringing up McGwire.
The Dodgers’ injury problems continued when catcher
Mike Scioscia twisted his right knee on an unsuccessful
steal try in the fourth inning and limped off the field and
into the dugout. He might be able to play in Game 5, but
the team said Scioscia would be in pain.
Rick Dempsey, the only other catcher on the Los An
geles roster, replaced Scioscia. All-purpose Mickey
Hatcher would have been next in line if Dempsey had been
hurt.
The Dodgers, though, did catch some breaks, mostly be
cause Oakland couldn’t catch the ball.
Steve Sax drew a walk to start the game and took third
on Hatcher’s perfect hit-and-run single. Sax scored when a
pitch skipped off catcher Terry Steinbach’s mitt.
McWilliam makes the most
of opportunities at pro ball
By Jerry Bolz
Sports Writer
Former Texas A&M baseball player
Tim McWilliam found himself in a jam
last June. The major league baseball
draft came to town and, surprisingly, it
didn’t stop at McWilliam’s house. So he
got back to the business at hand — fin
ishing the three or so semesters left to
graduate.
But about a week into summer school,
the 23-year-old McWilliam got an invita
tion to play in the Arizona rookie league
for the Padres’ team in Scottsdale, Ariz.,
about a two-hour drive from his home in
Tucson. He took the shot, even though
the Padres weren’t his favorite team.
McWilliam is back in Aggieland this
semester. With his new career, the fall is
the only gap in his schedule that he can
squeeze in a semester.
Playing in Aggieland in 1987 and
1988, after two years at Pima College in
Tucson, the 6-2, 190-pounder wound up
a two-year starter in the outfield. Last
year he ended up second in batting aver
age on the team.
So you take a good, but non-drafted
player out of summer school and into a
10-week, 60-game schedule with a
Profile of the Week
Tim McWilliam
bunch of much-touted draftees, and he
should do OK, right?
Wrong.
McWilliam hit Arizona, and he hit
Arizona, and he hit Arizona some more.
He pounded-out a .445 average for the
season while playing center field and
first base, which he said might be his po
sition of the future.
Speaking of the future, McWilliam
goes back to the Padres’ spring training
in March to see where they want to use
him. He discussed his experiences and
current status with The Battalion.
Question: Was it a hard choice for
you to leave school and go play ball?
Answer: It was a big decision because
I was enrolled in summer school. I had to
look at it two ways; I could either stay in
summer school and get my degree early,
or put school on hold and play ball.
When you’ve been playing your whole
life and get a lucky break like I did, you
can’t pass it up. After playing this sum
mer, 1 know I made the best decision.
Q: Were you surprised to hit .445?
A: Definitely. It was hard because be
fore each season, 1 set a goal. But being
the first year of pro ball and using
wooden bats, I had no idea what to ex
pect, so I didn’t really set a goal.
Q: Did you like playing such a rigor
ous schedule?
A: Yeah, I didn’t mind it. We did play
a 60-70 game schedule in college, but
it’s spread out. In pro ball we played
Monday through Saturday at 9:00 in the
morning, so you have to program your
self to get to bed at a decent hour. It’s
more laid-back than college where you’d
“get up” for a couple of games a week.
In rookie ball, we played every day, so
you don’t get too high or too low.
Q: Is there much difference in the
level of play from college ball to rookie
ball?
A: Excellent question. I was waiting
for that one. From Southwest Confer
ence play, there was a slight drop-off.
One of the things is that you get more
fastballs in rookie ball because guys
havn’t established good breaking
pitches. 1 hit .362 at A&M and went out
See McWilliam, page 10
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■Texas A&M tangles with a winless Rice Owl
Squad Saturday afternoon, one that would have
topull off a wildly unlikely upset in order to beat
the oncoming Aggies.
Blearly 33 years ago, on November 12, 1955,
the Aggies sported a 5-1-1 record when they in-
|aded Rice Stadium to play Coach Jess Neely’s
2-3-1 Owls, who were 0-3 in Southwest Confer-
;encc games.
Wet, Coach Paul “Bear” Bryant’s youngsters
had to put on the most unbelievable rally in
Texas A&M football history in order to keep the
Owls winless in the SWC.
K)own 12-0 — and almost out with 4:18 left in
the game— the Aggies stormed back with a pair
oftouchdowns in 46 seconds, three TDs in 3:09
and had the ball again when the game ended,
winning 20-12.
s was the case with Bryant’s A&M squads,
Tim Stanfield
Flashback
the heroes were many that day, but none played
a greater role than sophomore back Lloyd Tay
lor.
Taylor, who was from Roswell, N.M., not
only led both squads with 76 yards rushing (on
four carries) and in receiving yardage (43 yards
on 1 catch), but also scored the Ags’ initial two
touchdowns in a space of 46 seconds.
“We had a good season in 1955, except for
losing to UCLA in the opening game and to
Texas to end it,’’ Taylor said Wednesday af
ternoon. “After tying Arkansas 7-7, we had de
feated SMU 13-2 but hadn’t played very well.
“That day at Rice none of us had played to
gether as a team, which is the way we had to
play in order to win most of the time. Coach
Bryant was so mad at the starters that he took us
out late in the third quarter, saying that Tf you
won’t play, you can sit by me. ’ ”
Taylor and teammates lineman Dennis Goehr-
ing and end Gene Stallings (referred to as “Eu
gene” back then) all recalled how Bryant had ig
nored them for much of the fourth quarter.
Rice junior back Paul Zipperlen from Rosebud
scored touchdowns on rushes of 7 and 5 yards
while the Aggie starters smoldered on the bench.
Fortunately for the Aggies, Owl fullback Jerry
Hall missed both of the extra points. But with
the clock dwindling under five minutes to play,
it didn’t seem to matter.
With 68,000 fans in the stands, many of
whom had come to see the maroon-clad Aggies
add another win to their already successful sea
son, Bryant made one of his all-time pyschologi-
cal ploys.
“Coach Bryant got the starters together on the
sidelines and told us, Tf you were the type peo
ple that I think you are, you can still win this
game,” Stallings said Wednesday afternoon
from his office in Phoenix, Ariz. “He had great
faith in us, but we had to prove ourselves to him
that day.”
Goehring recalled that after Bryant had his
say, “We just looked at each other and went
onto the field. We knew that we had messed
around all week in practice, but that if we
wanted to win, we could. ”
Taylor said that Bryant added, “And by God,
I want to see something happen. ”
OF Bear never got his wish more than in the
next three minutes on the Rice Stadium clock.
Don Watson fair caught an Owl punt at the
A&M 39 yard line, a point from which the Aggie
starters gave their coach something of which to
be forever proud.
On second down Taylor swept left end, sprint
ing into the clear behind Pardee’s crushing block
on Owl defensive back Lanny Fife.
“I got to the corner and Jack put Fife on his
back, which opened up the whole sideline for
me,” Taylor said.
Stallings and fellow end Bobby Drake Keith
added blocks downfield, and only a lunging
tackle at the Owl 3 by Ken Williams kept Taylor
out of the end zone.
After Pardee, then quarterback Jimmy Wright
pounded the middle of the stout Owf defense
with little success, Taylor got the touchdown
See Taylor, page 12
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