Friday, October 4, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Detroit's victory eases pressure valve
ST. LOUIS (UPI)—The Detroit Tigers' Mickey Lolich, fagged out by a groin infection, had a simple game plan to beat the St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series, 8-1, yesterday.
"It was just keep the ball down, throw strikes, duck and pray," he said.
Lolich said he never entered a game with the intent to rely on one pitch or another.
"I sort of find out what's working for me that day," he said. "Today it was the slider, and I had a generally good fast ball.
"But the slider was working real effectively and I got a lot of guys out with it."
The groin infection, stemming from a boil, was discovered Wednesday night, and Dr. Clarence Livinggood gave him "a couple of capsules" for it.
But the decision for him to work wasn't made until minutes before game time, and even then he was slated to pitch only five or six innings.
"Then somebody was going to come in and take over for me," Lolich said.
"It was Mickey all the way," Manager Mayo Smith said, "If he felt all right, I was going to start him, and the doctor told me he
possibly would get tired in the late innings."
He did, Lolich said, but not too weary to pitch a complete game. "I feel like I could lie down in the clubhouse and fall asleep," he said.
The atmosphere in the Tiger dressing room was as relaxed yesterday as it was tense Wednesday when Bob Gibson struck out 17 and beat them.
The change was due to Willie Horton's homerun in the second, Detroit's first run in the Series.
"It got us off in front," Smith said, "and the reaction on the bench was real great. The homer brought us alive. It got us off winging.
"Winning as we did was a big lift, and I feel going back home tied will be the Tigers' big advantage."
Norm Cash, the Tigers' hitting star with a homer and two singles, said he had opened his stance to see the ball better.
"I'm looking at it more with two eyes," he said. "I used to do
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"Wednesday I felt I was getting out to quick. The first time today I stayed back too long and then I made an adjustment. He threw me the same thing both times and I hit the second one out."
"I gave it all I had," said Nelson Briles, the handsome college student and ex-actor who started for the Cardinals but gave up three homers and finally
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Veteran Al Kaline described his Tigers best.
"I think we're in good shape now," he said. "We're going to play like we did all year. Wednesday I'd never been so
nervous in my life. Today was so much better. You could take a pitch and not worry about it. Now we can play our style, just trying to get that base hit."
At home with a standoff after two games, relaxed and playing their game, they felt they might get a lot more.
was knocked out in the sixth inning.
"Lolich proved that I didn't have good stuff," said Briles.
Briles served up his homerun ball to Lolich in the third inning. Lolich's 330-foot poke down the left field line made it 2-0 in favor of the Tigers, and eventually it was the only other run Detroit needed.
"Actually," said Briles, "I think Manager Red Schoendienst went with me longer than I thought he would."
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