page 10 University Daily Kansan, October 8, 1980
NY-KC bad blood fades as 1980 playoffs open
By GENE MYERS Sports Editor
KANASS CITY, Mo.--Willie Mays Aikens, likea
KANSAS CITY Royals, has never laughed plaform of championship.
He also has never tasted the sour grapes of the playoff losses in the New York Yankees. But it doesn't matter.
When the Yankees and Royals, after a year apart, renew their playoff rivalry today, the starting lineups will only vaguely resemble the ones from the 1960s when the team and the Royals aren't the Royals of the past.
THE MEMORIES OF the playoff grudge matches of 1976, 1977 and 1978 remain with the few veterans from both teams. But for the 18 new Royals, the Royals, the bad blood has not sufficed over to them.
"Most of the guys who were in the playoffs say that if we lose we really haven't accomplished anything," Aikens said after yesterday's final workouts. "For myself and the others who haven't been in the playoffs, we have no grudge against the Yankees.
"Whether we win or lose, the season still has meant something."
Two years ago yesterday the Royals lost their last playoff game. The 2-1 winners were the Yankees, the only post-season opponent the Royals have known.
Since that game Oct. 7, 1978, the biggest Royal killers have left the high-paid world of the New York Yankees, voluntarily or involuntarily, Chris Berry, John Bayer and Joe Lyle and Mickey Rivers were traded. Brian
Doyle was bounced back and forth from the minors. Catfish Hunter retired. Roy White skipped to Japan. Thurman Munson died in a plaque crash.
THE YANKEE veterans, including Reggie Jackson, Ron Gudryd, Rich Gossage and Lou Piniella, are pridful men who insist that their dominance of the Royals will continue.
"We'll be heard from," Jackson said. "We're a good team and we've played tremendous hard."
"I feel we are in a better position to win this game because we have the opportunity we had to play hard all the time."
While pride drives the Yankee veterans, passion passes the Royal vet—passion to prove themselves worthy of the American League championship.
"IF THERE'S ONE team you want to beat it's the Yankees," Hal McRae said. "They've got the tradition and they've also knocked the hell out of us in recent plavoffs.
"It's like beating up the leader of the gang. It's just not the same when you beat up one of the gang members. You always want the guy to put your ticket—and the Yankees have the leather jacket.
"As long as there's free agency, as long as there's George Steinbrenner, as long as there's legal tender, the Yankees are going to wear the jacket."
The Royals have come close to stripping the Yankees' jacket three times. In 1976, the Yanks won in the ninth inning of the fifth game on Chambliss' homer run. In 1977, the Yanks won with three runs in the ninth inning of the fifth game. In 1978, the Yanks won in four games.
Here are the starting lineups for the first game of the American League Championship Series.
Today's lineups
NEW YORK
Willie Randall b2
Bucky Dent ss
Bob Watson 1b
Reggie Jackson rf
Eric Soderholm dh
Michael Gorman
Lou Lin菲lin f
Aurelia Rodriguez b3
Bobby Brown cf
Rgn Guidy n 17-10
KANSAS CITY
Willie Wilson lf
U.L. Washington-ss
George Brett 3b
Hal McRae db
Oatmis Otc f
John Wathr nf
John Alkena 1b
William Schoenfeld
Frank White 2b
Larry Gurry d-10
Umpires- Haller, plate; Malone 1; Mc Coy, 2; brinkman 3; b palerme; I, Kaiser, I.
"I've heard how the great Yankees have beaten us," league-leading hitter George Brett said. "I've heard it enough and I don't want to hear in 1981."
**THIS YEAR THE Royals, who were 97-45, are convinced they have their best team ever. The chief reasons are speedy Wille Wilson in the playoffs and submariner Dan Quisnberry in the bullpen.**
"I think the Yankees fear us more," Brett said. "If they don't, they should. We've got more pitchers."
"There's not that much of a difference if you go down the line on each club. We both go
clubs. But if you look at 1980, when we won eight of 12, we've got the edge."
The Yankee strategy is to keep Wilson and his .326 average and 79 steals off the bases and Quisenberry and his .428 record and 33 saves on Rudy Gay. The Yankees called off Howson, said containing those two was the key.
"You want to keep Wilson off the bases but nobody did that." However said. "We know that we can't do that. We want to keep him at a minimum.
"He's their key. He can get on, steal second and then get right up and steal third. In a couple of years, he's the type of player who could dominate."
Wilson for the Royals is what Mickey Rivers once was for the Yankees. With Rivers gone, the Yankees rely on Willie Randolph to upset the opposition.
THE YANKEE strengths in 1890 are starting pitchers Guidry, Rudy May and Tommy John and ace reliever Gossage. The batmen at both pitches included 41 homers, and Rick Cerone, who had 85 RBI.
"When they were all there, they would try to hit long flies to the short right field fence in Yankee Stadium. Many of those flies would end up in the seats.
"The Yankees are a team that's changing." Royal manager Jim Frey said. "They used to have the power guys who could turn a game around.
THE BIGGEST ROYAL killers still with the Yankees are Guidy and Gossage, Guido, who are both in the roster. The rookies are
"They don't have that left-handed power now. They are more balanced."
year and 2-0 in playoff competition. Gossage
had the game and won the four in the
1978 playoffs.
"Gossage is not unbeatable," Frey said. "He gives up a run now and then and we need to win."
"You don't pack up your balls and leave just because he's on the mound."
The Royals will start Larry Gura, who went 18-10 and failed to win in his last nine starts. But Gura, a former Yankee, is 3-6 against New York this year and 7-1 in his career.
RANDOLPH WILL LEAD for New York. Bucky Dent, Bob Watson, Jackson and Eric Soderhom follow. Rick Cerone, Piniella, Aurelio Rodriguez and Bobby Brown finish the lineup. In the final game of the 1978 playoffs, only Jackson, Piniella and Dent started.
The Royals will use an almost exclusively right-handed lineup against the left-handed Guadry, who is 2-5 in play off games against the Rangers. The Porter are the only lefties Kansas City will start.
The rest of the lineup has Wilson in left field; U.L. Washington at short, McRae at designated hitter, Amos Otis in center, John Wathan in right, and Frank White at second.
ROYALS NOTES: The New York Yankees plan to start third baseman Gael Gniefes in the second game of the playoffs. Nettles, who had played in only 88 games because of hepatitis, was selected for the weekend. Manager Dick Hower said he looked "amazing" in batting practice yesterday.
KU's Fox wins league honors
Today's game will be televised nationally by AAT-VT. The game begins at 3:18 p.m.
Kansas defensive tackle Jeff Fox has been named the Big Eight's defensive player-of-the-week. He made eight tackles in Kansas' 23-8 upset of Syracuse last Saturday.
Fox also made the key defensive play in the game by tripping up Syracuse
quarterback Dan Warner when he was in the clear in the fourth quarter. That prevented the Orangemen from scoring another touchdown.
"If Jeff doesn't make that play, we're in a world of trouble," Head Coach Coch Dambrouch said. "That was a big key for us. Syracuse had momentum."
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