Mets, Os win; Series next
New York, 7 Atlanta 4
NEW YORK (UPI)—The amazin' New York Mets, continuing to defy logic and tradition, swept the National League pennant Monday with a 7-4 victory over the Atlanta Braves on a pair of two-run homers by two obscure singles hitters—Ken Boswell and Wayne Garrett.
Boswell hit just three homers this year and Garrett had only one, but their timely homers were typical of the hits the Mets got all year when they needed them as they won the National League playoffs with three straight victories over the Braves.
The Mets, who had never finished above ninth before this season but won 100 games while winning the Eastern Division crown, will now play in the World Series starting this Saturday.
The Mets-Braves series was supposed to match the Braves' hitting against the Mets' pitching. But while each of the Mets' starters failed to finish, the Mets scored a total of 27 runs in the three games and banged out 37 hits.
Gary Gentry was the Met starter who failed Monday but Nolan Ryan came on and stopped the Braves' on three hits—one a two-run homer by Orlando Cepeda in the fifth inning—over the last seven innings to get the victory.
Baltimore 11, Minnesota 2
MINNEAPOLIS-ST. PAUL (UPI)—Paul Blair lashed five hits and batted in five runs Monday to highlight an 18-hit assault by the Baltimore Orioles which overwhelmed the Minnesota Twins 11-2 to sweep a three-game playoff and win the American League pennant.
The sweep gave the Orioles their second championship in four years and sent them into the World Series against the New York Mets with a 7-0 record in post-season games. In 1966 Baltimore swept the Series in four straight games against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Blair's performance, and a four-hit game for left fielder Don Buford, made the game an easy task for pitcher Jim Palmer, fast and wild throughout the game, who scattered 10 Minnesota hits for the victory.
Palmer was pitching downhill after the second inning, in which Brooks Robinson doubled, Dave Johnson reached base when Tony Oliva dropped his fly ball for an error, and Elrod Hendricks doubled to drive in both runners. Then Buford singled to score Hendricks and give Palmer a 3-1 cushion.
Every starter for the Orioles except Palmer had at least one hit, and eight of the 18 hits went for extra bases.
Rodgers drills Hawks in first closed session
The Kansas football team practiced at a secret location yesterday in preparation for Saturday's annual grudge game with Kansas State.
Coach Pepper Rodgers sent his gridders through a two-hour session in pads and sweat pants and remarked afterward that "a certain spark" lacking in last week's practices seemed present yesterday.
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Rodgers also noted that his team would not stress fundamentals any more than usual after Saturday night's loss to New Mexico but would work on things necessary to defeat Kansas State.
"Our loss the other night did not stem from a lack of fundamentals more than it did a lack of enthusiasm," Rodgers added.
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