Royals evade doldrums. win 10-4
Thursday, October 5, 1978
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By LEON UNRUH
Sports Editor
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-The Royals did yesterday to the Yankees who the Yankees had done to them the day before: pile it on big.
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Kansas City pumped out 16 hits, including a two-run homer by Fred Patek, and beat the Yankees 104 in game 2 of the American League playoffs.
Tuesday, the Yankas had dumped Kansas to 7-1, while the Royals looked as exciting.
"I watched my ball club all season and I still don't know what they're going to do."
"Consistency is very hard to get around here."
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Patton was taken in favor of Al Hajabosky, who gave up two singles in two innings.
George Brett opened the game with a leadoff单手 and scored later on a sacrifice by Andrew Bannister.
Patek, whose home crowded the Royals' onslaught, said the Royals had done the trick by forgetting all the pressure of trying to avoid the Yankee inx over the Royals.
"The guys said we might as well go out there and enjoy it, and let whatever happens happen."
THE ROYALS made it happen early and often. While starting pitcher Larry Gura, 17-4, was knotted the Yankees on four hits in a game and the Royals pumped out five early runs and 10 hits.
Gura was touched for three hits and two runs in the seventh before reliever Marty Pattin got the final two Yankee outs in the inning.
Kansas City put together five singles in the second inning—a record for the A.L. playoffs—and rounded up four runs before Yankee starter Ed Figueroa was sent to the
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showers. Dick Tidrow stayed for 5% innings and left the rest to sparky Lyle.
The Yankees didn't even get a man to tird until the seventh inning, when they pulled down Chamblea and pinch hitter Clint Johnson singled and were driven in by Bucky Dent.
THE ROYALS made the most of their half of that inning, which saw a double, a triple, a near-fight at the plate and a field full of shots. The Royals were out of the Royals were still at bat after three outs.
WILSON AS was called out. Munson squared to around do to battle. Herzog ran on the field to protest the call. The Yankees dugue to empty to reinforce the beesy Munson.
Pete LaCock doubled to right one out and was followed by Clint Hurt, who tripped over the head of rightfielder Reggie Grimm. Wilson replaced Hurd as a runner at third.
Home plate umpire Rich García threw himself between Wilson and Munson and the Tanks to go back into the dugout. Herzog was a little easier to placate.
Then Al Cowens, laced Lyle, batted the ball to third baseman Graget Nettles. Nettles tossed it home ahead of Wilson, who ran full circle, breaking on any possible double slam.
"I saw the ball at home plate and thought Munson has dropped it," Herrog said. "But it was definitely a goal."
Patek unloaded his third home run of the year into the left-footed sloncher. It was a move he couldn't handle.
As pandemonium remained in the air,
"That's got to be the most gratifying hit I've got," he said. "There was no doubt in my mind it was gone. I just stood there and enjoyed every minute of it."
THE YANKEES' final two runs, which came in the eighth inning, were charged to
Jackson and Nettles singled and were driven in by Chambassis and Dent's singles.
Gura, traced for catcher Fran Healy in 1976, smiled big as he told how glad he was that the Royals kept on playing hard once they had a lead.
"You can't sit on it—there's too much dynamite. You've got to keep adding on and adding more."
"I used to get into a lot of trouble because we got a big lead and people would relax."
THAT GURA had beaten the Yankees wasn't lost in his grin. Someone asked how the race would have turned out if Billy Martin had remained as manager.
Patek backed him up.
"If he was still here," he said, "we'd probably be playing the Sax."
The Royals will send Paul Splittorff, 19-13; against Catfish Hunter, 12-6, in Game 3 Friday in Yankee stadium. Saturday's pitchers will be Kansas City's Dennis Leonard, 21-17; against the league's best, Ron Guidry, 25-3.
Guidry, who won the Yankee's divisional playoff game with Boston, would have started the Royals series. Splittorff would have started Game 1, but his father died last week and Herzog moved him out of the rotation.
HERZOG SAID he wasn't surprised that yankee manager Bob Lemon had moved Guidry from pitching 'Friday, as Lemon had said Tuesday.
"The big game is Friday," he said. "If we lose then we have to meet Gudiram when he's made it."
It is bad enough to play at least two games in New York, without having to meet Gudrya the other day.
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