Page 12 University Daily Kansan, October 7, 1981
A's homers down Royals, 4-0
By JIM SMALL
Sports Writer
KANAS CITY, Mo.-Billy Ball, the hit and run style of baseball that propelled the Oakland A's to the top of the American League West in the first half of the season, has been missing lately from the A's lineup.
Oakland is still winning, but the A's are relying on less running and more hitting - long ball hitting.
OAKLAND'S Wayne Gross belted a three-run homer in the fourth inning and Dwayne Murphy added a solo shot in the eighth to lift Oakland to a 40 victory yesterday over the Kansas City Royals in the opening game of the American League West Divisional Playoff Series.
Oakland, which led the American League in home runs with 104, has hit 39 trippers in its last 36 games.
"I never figured we'd lead the league in home runs." Oakland Manager Billy Martin said. "But our style of baseball depends on the game situation. If we can run, we'll run. If we can hit the long ball, we'll hit the long ball."
Oakland's home runs complimented
the four-hit pitching of the A's Mike Norris. Norris fanned two Royal batters as he upped his record to 13-9.
"Norris looks pretty good from over our way," Kansas City Manager Dick Howser said. "You'd have to ask our players how he actually was."
OAKLAND, WHICH boasted the best record in the American League and the second best in all of baseball this season, has won four of the seven games the two teams have played this year.
Many of the players and coaches think that the playoffs will be about as close as the season series was.
"Kansas City was the division champ last year," Murphy said. "They have a good team and they have a good team and it's going to be a good series."
The A's performance overshadowed a solid effort by Kansas City's Dennis Leonard. Leonard scattered seven hits and was held to just 8 of 15. Leonard run as his record dropped to 13-12.
"He pitched a heck of a ball game." Mitin said, "he only made one bat pitch."
Leonard's bad pitch couldn't have come at a worse time for the Royals.
With Oakland runners at first and
third and two outs in the fourth innning, Leonard delivered a high fastball, which Gossock deposited over the right-half,ence for his 11th homer of the season.
"OUR GUY PITCHED good enough to win this game," Howser said. "This should have been a 1-0 or a 2-0 ball game."
Kansas City, which is the first team in baseball history to advance to the playoffs with a losing record, couldn't win on a number of scoring opportunities.
The first scoring chance came in the third innning, when Norris' throw to second base to force Clint Hurdle after John Wathan's bunt snaked into center field, putting Royal runners at first and third bases. Hurdle had walked to the open innings.
After U.L. Washington filed to center,
Willie Wilson beat a out bunt to load the
bases and set the stage for Frank
White.
But White grounded to Gross at third, Gross forced Hurdle at home, and George Brett followed with a fly to shallow center field to end the inning.
Kansas City had another opportunity in the fifth, when Hurdle led off the
inning with a single to right-center and Wathan followed with a walk. After Washington laid a perfect bum down on the field, Audals had the bases loaded with no outs.
BUT WILSON popped to the shortstop and White lined a lastball right at third baseman Gross, who fired to second or double-up Wathan and end the inning.
"That line drive that Frank hit to third was a big opportunity to score." Hower said. "If that would have gone through it we would have been good for three runs because we had Washington at first, and he can fly."
The scoring was finished in the eighth, when Murphy smacked a 3-2 Leonard pitch deep into the right field stands.
Hower said that the Royals were not effected by a trip to Cleveland Monday to make up a game that was rained out last April.
Rookie Mike Jones, 6-3, will pitch for the Royals in today's 3:10 p.m. game against Steve McCatty, 14-7.
Ashby's homer beats Dodgers, 3-1
By United Press International
HOUSTON—Alan Ashby hit a two-run homer with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning last night to lift the Houston Astros to a 3-1 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in the opening game of the best-of-five National League West Plavoff Series.
Ashby, the hottest hitter for the Astros over the final month of the season, pulled reliever Dave Stewart's first pitch to him over the right-field wall to end the game and hand pitcher Nolan Ryan the vic-
RYAN, WHO HAD a no-hitter against the Dodgers Sept. 26, two-hit them last night but enuered the ninth inning with the game tied 1-1 after the Dodger's Steve Garvey hit a solo bomber in the seventh inning.
Craig Reynolds, pinch hitting for Kiko Garcia in the ninth, singled off loser Stewart with two outs and
scored ahead of Ashley. Ashley was mobbed at home plate by his teammates as a crowd of 44,836 stood and roared their approval.
Ashby, who finished the season hitting .282, hit safety in 20 of the last 29 games. During that stretch he hit .363. He was a last-minute starter because he bats left-handed and would have to hit against left-hander Fernando Valenzuela. Manager Bill Virdon had contemplated starting Luis Pujols up until the final four games of that series.
Tony Scott's bloop short to right-center field with two out in the sixth knocked in Terry Puhl from second base with the game's first run. Puhl had singled to start the Aston's rally, and the next batter, Phall Garner, drew a walk off Valenzuela after Valenzuela had pitched on his first two throws to the plate.
GARVEY TIED THE game 1-1 in the seventh.
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