Banner Graphic, Volume 15, Number 33, Greencastle, Putnam County, 11 October 1984 — Page 10
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Playing game three while in game two beat Tigers
SAN DIEGO (AP) With three runs in, two men on and the game only two outs old, the Detroit Tigers started playing numbers games early in the second game of the World Series. It turned out to be too early. The Tigers, with the first game already in hand, were looking for a quick finish as they burst to a 3-0 lead Wednesday night. But the San Diego Padres stormed back for a 5-3 victory, sending Detroit home with only a split of the first two Series games. “After scoring three runs in the first inning, we were naturaly thinking sweep,” infielder Darrell Evans said. “You can’t take anything away from the Padres, though. They came back and won it with some of the best relief pitching I’ve ever seen.” It was some of their own medicine airtight relief pitching and a three-run homer that made the Tigers rearrange their arithmetic. Andy Hawkins relieved starter Ed Whitson with two outs in the first and faced only the minimum 16 batters over the next 51-3 innings. Then Craig Lefferts came on to shut the Tigers down on only one hit over the final three innings. “Eight innings pitched and two hits, that’s some pitching,” Detroit Manager Sparky Anderson said. “Hawkins put a
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complete stop on us.” Anderson said he was disappointed at splitting the two games in frenzied Jack Murphy Stadium. “We certainly didn’t accomplish what we wanted,” he said. “When we go out there, we feel we can win every night. We’re disappointed that we didn’t win tonight.” It was the Tiger’s first defeat in five
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post-season games. The club has a history of streaking, having won their first nine during the regular season enroute to a record 35-5 start in the American League East. “We didn’t expect it to be a cakewalk. A lot of people were hoping it would be, I know including me,” right fielder Kirk Gibson said. “I think it says a lot about their ballclub. They showed a lot of character.” Detroit starter Dan Petry, who lasted only 4 1-3 innings, walked Graig Nettles to open the Padres’ fifth and Terry Kennedy singled off Lou Whitaker’s glove to set the table for Kurt Bevacqua’s game-winning three-run homer that wiped out a 3-2 Detroit lead. “The ball had a lot of top-spin,” Whitaker said of Kennedy’s hit. “It was just a bad break. I was lucky not to have pieces of bone sticking out of my head. The ball went 10 feet in the air, that’s how hard it was hit. “This is a good hitting park, Out I think this is a terrible field. I wouldn’t want to play defense here.” Petry, who was in trouble in every inning, seemed frustrated at having blown the first-inning lead. “You’re supposed to hold a lead like that and I just couldn’t do it,” he said.
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San Diego to throw hitting pitcher
By MARK J. KREIDLER AP Sports Writer There seems to be as much interest these days in wha f Tim Lollar can do with a bat as in what he can do to batters. Because of San Diego’s lack of depth at designated hitter, Lollar, the Padres’ left-handed starting pitcher in Game Three of the World Series, faces the unusual possibility of hitting
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for himself against Milt Wilcox and Detroit on Friday night in Tiger Stadium. Such a decision by Manager Dick Williams might not be out of line. Lollar, a designated hitter in college, batted .221 this season with three home runs and 15 RBI. That’s a better performance than Williams got out of Kurt Bevacqua (.200) or Champ Summers (.185), the two players men-
Hawkins gave Padres chance to come hack
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Enter Andy Hawkins. Exit the Detroit Tigers’ offense. The 24-year-old San Diego relief pitcher allowed only one hit through 5 1-3 innings, struck out three and fell behind only one batter, as the Padres rallied for a 6-3 victory in Game Two of the World Series Wednesday night. Detroit took a quick 3-0 lead off starter Ed Whitson in the first inning, but Padres Manager Dick Williams never lost faith. “I told Hawk, ‘You just hold them and we’ll see what we can do. We haven’t even got to bat yet,”’ Williams said. “And that’s exactly what he did. ” Hawkins needed only 55 pitches and did not walk a batter. “Sometimes you just have a feeling things are going to go well.” said Hawkins, who also threw 2 2-3 scoreless innings in relief on Tuesday, as well as 3 2-3 shutout innings in the playoffs. “I’ve had that feeling for about three or four weeks now.” Maybe Williams should skip his starting pitchers and go straight to the middle relievers. The superlative performances by righthander Hawkins and southpaw Craig Lefferts, who finished with three innings of one-hit relief, overshadowed the fact that San Diego’s starting pitchers have been horrendous thus far in the series, which is tied at one game apiece. In Game One, Williams and pitching coach Norm Sherry sent Mark Thurmond out for a fifth inning, even though Thurmond had thrown nearly twice as many pitches as usual through the first four.
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tioned as the Padres’ most likely designated hitters during the series. While Lollar completed three games this season, Wilcox didn’t finish one. But the Tiger right-hander is just as happy that way. “Dick hasn’t talked to me about it,” Lollar said. “That ninth inning is sort of uncharted territory for me. I don’t know what the ninth is like,” said Wilcox.
Thurmond surrendered a two-run, fifthinning homer to Larry Herndon, and the Padres lost, 3-2. Wednesday, Whitson, who had given up only one run in eight innings of playoff work, was tagged for five Tiger hits and three runs in the first two-thirds of an inning. He lasted only 17 pitches —IOO fewer than Thurmond the evening before. Hawkins’ arrival is a welcome one for the Padres. He struggled to an 8-9 record and 4.68 earned run average during the regular season, partly because he was despondent over having lost a No. 2 spot in the starting rotation that he had earned in spring training. “For a while, I looked at it as a demotion,” he said. “But then I got out in the bullpen and settled down and worked on pitching, and a few weeks ago I made an adjustment in my motion, and now things just seem to be falling into place. ” “He’s been very aggressive lately, and he’s building confidence with every pitch,” said Dave Dravecky, another member of a bullpen long relief staff that has dubbed itself The Committee. “Like the rest of us out there, Andy is realizing his role on the team and adapting to it.” “The Committee is growing stronger,” said Lefferts, who posted a team-low 2.13 ERA in 105 2-3 regular season innings, threw four shutout innings and recorded two victories in the National League Championship Series. The winning runs came on a three-run homer by designated hitter Kurt Bevacqua.