Banner Graphic, Volume 15, Number 27, Greencastle, Putnam County, 4 October 1984 — Page 8

The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, October 4,1984

Amateurs are doing professional job in playoffs so far

By BOBGREENE AP Sports Writer Richie Phillips, attorney for the striking major league umpires, will talk again with the presidents of the American and National leagues in an effort to get his members back on the baseball fields. “I don’t want to say we’re close,” Phillips said by telephone from his Philadelphia home late Wednesday night. He met Wednesday with AL President Bobby Brown in Kansas City and NL President Chub Feeney in Chicago. “The meetings last night (Tuesday) and today helped give us a clearer understanding of each other’s problems,” Phillips said, “but I wouldn’t say we’re close.” Substitute umpires have worked the playoff games in Chicago and Kansas City, and will be back on the field tonight in San Diego when the Padres play host to the Chicago Cubs. So far, in the four games played, only two controversies have occurred. In Kansas City Wednesday night, Royals outfielder Willie Wilson, who seemed to question an earlier called strike from plate umpire Bill Deegan,

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jumped up and down in anger when Deegan called a third strike on the center fielder to end the fifth inning with a runner at second base. Deegan, who umpired in the major leagues for 10 years, said he didn’t know what Wilson said after the called third strike. “I left him there doing his thing,” Deegan said. “I walked away from him because if I go back to him, I’m going to run him out.” Detroit catcher Lance Parrish said he had “no complaints about the umpires. I think they did a fine job. I think it was wrong for Willie Wilson, in my opinion, to act the way he did. I didn’t stick around to hear what he was saying, but I think it was probably obvious to everybody. He was jumping up and down making a fool out of himself.” Both Detroit Manager Sparky Anderson and Kansas City skipper Dick Howser agreed with Parrish. “I don’t think you’re going to find any better umpiring than they’ve done,” Anderson said. Howser said, “I thought the umpiring was good.”

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Odds favor Cubs for NL pennant

CHICAGO (AP) - The San Diego Padres are locked in a precarious situation and the only way out will be a possible but improbable three-game sweep over the versatile Chicago Cubs. Noted for their power, the Cubs resorted to daredevil base running Wednesday for a 4-2 victory over the Padres and a 2-0 lead in their best-of-5 National League Championship series. Thus, the series could end tonight in San Diego, where the teams resume the competition after the flight west. If the Cubs don’t get that one victory they need to get into their first World Series since 1945 tonight, they have chances again Saturday and Sunday in the Padres’ park. “Anything can happen but we’re hoping to close it out tomorrow night,” said Bob Dernier, whose base-running figured in two of the Cubs’ runs Wednesday. No team in the NL has ever come back from a two-game deficit to win a pennant although Milwaukee did it in 1982 to defeat California in the American League playoffs. “We know their backs are against the wall, but we still have to go out their and play with the same intensity we have had all season,” said Dernier. “A 2-0 lead in a short series is a good feeling,” said Keith Moreland, who scored all the way from first base on a double by Ron Cey to set up a two-run third and a 3-4 lead which left-hander Steve Trout never relinquished. Dernier, who started Tuesday’s 13-0 romp with a leadoff homer, opened the Chicago first Wednesday with a single.

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Ryne Sandberg grounded to third baseman Luis Salazar and while Salazar was throwing Sandberg out at first, Dernier raced to third and then scored as Gary Matthews grounded out. With one out in the third, Moreland singled. Cey followed with a double to leftcenter and Moreland, not noted for his speed, raced all the way home to score. The throw home also enabled Cey to take third from where he scored on Jody Davis’ sacrifice fly. “When I was halfway to third, Don (Zimmer) waived me. I knew the play would be close and when the ball got by the catcher (Terry Kennedy) I was in. The big play

was getting Cey to third.” The Padres never recovered although they finally scored a run in the fourth when Tony Gwynn, the National League batting champion, doubled, went to third on a ground out and scored on Kevin Mcßeynolds’ sacrifice fly. The Cubs got this run back immediately. Trout singled but was forced by Dernier Dernier stole second and scored on Sandberg’s double. “We were trying to peck away,” said Padres’ Manager Dick Williams, “but that hit (Sandberg’s) gave them a three-run lead again and that was important. Trout

Baseball playoffs

LCS and World Series Glance By The Associated Press League Championship Series All Times EOT Tuesday's Games Chicago 13, San Diego 0 Detroit 8, Kansas City 1 Wednesday’s Games Chicago 4, San Diego 2, Chicago leads series 2-0 Detroit 5, Kansas City 3,11 innings, Detroit leads series 24) Thursday's Game Chicago (Eckersley 10-8) at San Diego (Whitson 14-8), 8:35 p.m. Friday's Game Kansas City (Leibrandt 11-7) at Detroit (Wilcox 17-8), 8:25 p.m. Saturday's Game Kansas City at Detroit, 1 p.m., if necessary Chicago at San Diego, 8:28 p.m., if necessary Sunday, October 7 Chicago at San Diego, 4:05 p.m., if necessary Kansas City at Detroit, 8:25 p.m., if necessary World Series If the San Diego Padres represent the National League: Tuesday, October* atSan Diego,B:3s p.m.

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AURELIO LOPEZ Relief victory

Tigers cut down on jinx with 2-0 lead

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - The home team stands 1-13 in games between Detroit and Kansas City this year, which is no comfort to the Royals and seems not to worry the Tigers one bit. The hard-to-figure home field disadvantage between the two American League division winners could go to 2-15 and still the American League pennant would fly from Tiger Stadium. The Tigers have two victories in the bank and need to win just one of the three weekend games in Detroit for their first World Series apparance since 1968. The best-of-five series shifts to Detroit for Game 3 Friday night. The Royals won five of six games at Tiger Stadium this year. “It’s a five-game series and that’s the way we’ll have to play it,” said a smiling Aurelio Lopez, who tossed three innings of four-hit relief to get the victory in Detroit’s 5-3 eleven-inning conquest Wednesday night. “But if we go less than five games, it’s all the better for us.” The Tigers, whose 104 victories were the envy of every other major league club this year, battered their hosts 8-1 in Tuesday night’s opener. They came back to beat the Royals’ best in a nail-biter of a second game. John Grubb, hitting a pitch Dan Quisenberry said “might not have done what I wanted it to do,” doubled home two runs in the eleventh. It was the ninth straight victory here for the Tigers, the first team to sweep a season series in Royals Stadium since the facUity opened in 1973. And it was a bitter loss for the Royals, who won the West with an 84-victory record which many baseball purists sneered at. “When you lose like we did Tuesday night, you know there wasn’t much you could do about it,” said Manager Dick Howser, whose post-season record as a field boss has dropped to an embarrassing

Reds may raise tickets

CINCINNATI (AP) - After suffering heavy financial losses for the fourth straight year, the Cincinnati Reds are looking at ways to increase revenues, including a possible ticket price increase, according to owners. William J. Williams, who is a general managing partner with his brother James, said the ballclub probably will raise its ticket prices to help reduce the $4.5 million loss posted by the Reds this year.

was throwing strikes and worked out of the little trouble he was in.” Williams refused to use the breaks the Cubs have had as an excuse. “You make your own breaks,” he said, “The Chicago club has played great. Our backs are against the wall but we’ll be going to our own park and that’ll be an advantage. We have to win the next three, that’s all there’s to it.” “Losing three in a row would be embarrassing,” said Cub Manager Jim Frey. “We still need 27 more outs before we can call ourselves National League champions.”

Wednesday, October 10 atSan Diego, 8:25 p.m. Friday. October 12 at American League, 8:35 p.m. Saturday, October 13 at American League, 1:30 p.m. Sunday, October 14 at American League, 4:45 p.m., if necessary Tuesday, October 16 at San Diego, 8:25 p.m., if necessary Wednesday, October 17 at San Diego, 8:25 p.m., if necessary Revised World Series Schedule If the Chicago Cubs represent the National League: Tuesday, October » at American League, 8:35 p.m. Wednesday, October 10 at American League, 8:25 p.m. Friday, October 12 at Chicago, ?:25 p.m. Saturday, October 13 at Chicago, 1:30 p.m. Sunday, October 14 atChicago, 3:45 p.m., if necessary Tuesday, October 16 at American League, B:2Sp.m., if necessary Wednesday, October 17 at American League, 8:25 p.m., if necessary

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0-8. “But tonight, a game like this, this takes something out of you. It’s hard to feel confident after a game like this, but we’ll regroup.” The Royals knotted it at 3-3 in the eighth. Quisenberry, who set a Major League record with 45 saves last season and led the league with 43 this year, started the ninth. Lance Parrish singled off the glove of a diving Greg Pryor at third leading off the eleventh. Next was Darrell Evans, who tried to sacrifice but wound up safe when Don Slaught failed to pick the ball up cleanly. The next sacrifice attempt ordered by Tiger Manager Sparky Anderson backfired, with Quisenberry throwing to third to get Parrish, the lead runner. But Grubb, on a 1-2 pitch, hit a Quisenberry sinker into the gap in right-center to score both runs. “He started me with a fastball and then he came at me with a breaking ball,” said Grubb. Said Quisenberry: “He hit a sinkerball. Apparently, it didn’t sink very well.” Howser merely smiled when asked about his dismal playoff record. He was the New York Yankee manager in 1980 when the Royals swept him three straight. He was the Royals’ manager in 1981 when Billy Martin’s Oakland A’s swept three in a row in the mini-playoffs in the strikeruptured season. “I’m not worried about it,” he said. “It won’t stay this bad,” he said. “It will change.” Howser merely smiled when asked about his dismal playoff record. He was the New York Yankee manager in 1980 when the Royals swept him three straight. He was the Royals’ manager in 1981 when Billy Martin’s Oakland A’s swept three in a row in the mini-playoffs in the strikeruptured season.

“We’ve held off for two years while everybody else has gone up,” Williams said. “We’ve held off because of our play (on the field). But I think we’ll have to raise our ticket prices eventually.” Ticket prices this season were $9 for club box seats, $7 for box seats, $5.50 for reserved seats and $3 for the top six rows in the upper deck. Williams said the prices were among the lowest in the major leagues.