University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, October 28, 1986
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New York conquers baseball world
United Press International
NEW YORK — The New York Mets, completing an October of fabulous comebacks, rallied behind Ray Knight's tie-breaking home run in the seventh innest night for an 8-9 victory over the Boston Red Sox and their first World Series title in 17 years.
See related stories pp. 9,10
In winning the World Series four games to three, the Mets celebrated their silver anniversary season by defeating the Giants if the "great teams in baseball history"
The victory was the 116th for the Mets this year. Only the 1990 Chicago Cubs, who won 113, won more, and did not win the World Series that year.
The Mets' final victory typified a season in which they rallied from behind 39 times to win, but they had not met their mettle as never before in October.
New York surged back to win in the National League Championship Series in 16 innings against Houston. They then overcame Boston leads of two games to none and three games to two to capture the World Series.
With two out and two strikes on Marty Barrett, a smoke bomb was tossed on the Shee Stadium field. But police prevented further interference.
After Barrett struck out to end game, pitcher Sid Fernandez took off his warmup jacket and threw it into the crowd. Some fans jumped onto
How they scored
Boston Second
Evans homered to left center. Gedman homered to right center. Henderson walked. Owen popped out to Santana. Hurst sacrificed. Darling to Teufel covering. Boggs singled to left center, scoring Henderson. Boston 3, New York 0
New York Sixth
Mazzilli batted for Fernandez and singled to left. Wilson signed to left, Mazzilli stopping at second. Teufel walked to load the bases. Hernandez singled to left center, Teufel taking third and Mazzilli and Wilson scoring. Backman ran for Teufel. Carter reached on a fielder's choice, Hernandez out at second. Evans to Owen. Backman scoring.
New York Seventh
Schiraldi took the mount, Knight homered to left center. Dykstra batted for Mitchell and singled to right.
Dykstra moved to second on a wild pitch. Santana singed down the right-field line, Dykstra scored. McDowell sacrificed, Buckner to Bearner covering. Sambito relieved Schiradzi. Wilson was walked intentionally. Backman walked to the bases. Hernandez hit a sacrifice fly to left center, Wilson taking third and Santana scoring. Stanley relieved Sambito.
Boston Eighth
Buckner singled to left. Rice singled to center. Buckner stopping at second. Evens doubled to right center. Rice doubling. Rocking New York 6, Boston 5
New York Eighth
the field, but were quickly accosted by police.
Strawberry homered to right center. Knight singled to center. Dykstra grounded out, Romero to Buckner. Santana was walked intentionally. Orosco singed up the middle, Santana taking third and Knight scoring. New York 8, Boston 5
As the Mets entered the locker room they were greeted by Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth, who immediately extended congratulations from President Reagan and an invitation to the White House. Several Mets players returned to the pitchers mound where they drank champagne and led the crowd in a chorus of cheers.
Trailing by three runs Monday night and held to only one hit by
nemesis Bruce Hurst, the Mets scored three times in the sixth to tie the score. They took a 6-3 lead in the seventh with another three-run bulge against losing reliever Calvin Schraldi.
The Red Sox, however, did not go quietly. Led by Dwight Evans, who set a Boston Series record with nine RBI, the Red Sox stormed back with two runs in the eighth. It took a masterful relief effort by Jesse Orosco to protect the victory.
row with the tying run on second base in the eighth to save the victory for Roger McDowell. Orosco even contributed with his bat, collecting an RBI single as the Mets scored two more runs in the eighth to wrap up their first championship since 1960.
Darryl Strawberry, angered at Manager Dave Johnson for being removed in Saturday night's comeback victory, also shared in the victory by hitting a solo homer in the eighth.
But it was Knight who got the Mets started. And that was perhaps fitting since it was his gugnacious style of play, but also the team's trademark this season.
Orosco retired three batters in a
Known as Team Arrogant by the rest of the league, the Mets bullied their way through the NL East this season. Despite being so accustomed to being the front-runners, they too showed character over the last month.
"It doesn't get any better than this," Mets Manager Dave Johnson said. "This is what it's all about. We deserved it. We had the best record in baseball. We should be world champs."
Said Knight, the Series MVP. "If you knew fighting can happen.
you keep fighting, things can happen.
"It was a fastball, 2-1," he said of his homer. "I was looking for a pitch up and in it was there."
The triumph extended one of baseball's longest running stories of collapse under pressure The Red Sox lost the AL title seven years despite a close, more
times than New Englanders care to remember.
"They got the hits when they had to, Barrett said. "They're a great team ... we've got a great ballclub."
The Mets were within one strike of elimination in the 10th innning Saturday before regrouping for an astonishing 6-5 triumph. On Monday night, they dug themselves in another hole.
The Red Sox jumped to a 3-10 lead against Ron Darling with the aid of back-to-back homers by Evans and Rich Gedman. The Mets finally solved the mystery of Hurst and fought back to tie te score in the sixth.
Evans, the only Boston player to appear in the club's last World Series in 1975, tagged a 3-2 pitch over the left-center field fence for the first earned run off Darling in the Series. Gedman followed with a drive to the right, top of the glove of a leaping Strawberry and dropped over the fence.
Dave Henderson then walked, took second on a sacrilege by Hurst and turned back.
Barrett beat out a bunt to tie a record for most hits in a seven-game Series (13), but Darling got out of the game by knocking Buckner on a line drive to center field.
Henderson was hit by a pitch to open the fourth inning and moved to second on a sacrifice by Hurst. With the catch, he returned to the plate. Mets Manager Dave
See METS, p. 9, col. 2
Ray Knight named MVP in 83rd World Series
United Press International
NEW YORK - Ray Knight, who barely made the New York Mets roster in spring training, last night became the Most Valuable Player of the 83rd World Series.
"This is a proventy the greatest thing that's ever happened to me in baseball," Knight said amid a champagne downpour outside the Mets clubhouse following New York's 6:5 victory over Boston in Game 1.
Knight, who batted just 218 in a part-time role for the Mets in 1983, came back this year and per-
"I just can't describe my feelings right now. This is tremendous."
sumified the Mets' aggressive and winning — style of play. In 137 games, the Mets third baseman batted .298 with 11 home runs and 76 RBI. He also was involved in a fight with the Reds' Eric Davis that typified New York's swashbuckling style of play that led to 108 victories.
Knight capped off his comeback season with a 9-for-23 performance in the Series, including a 3-for-4 output last night and the game-winning RBI on a seventh-inning home run off reliever Calvin
In all, the 35-year-old resident of Albany, Ga., battled two in the seven-game series with five PLE.
and broadcasters.
Knight, bugging hugen Nancy Lopez as he spoke,
said he recalled the frustrations he felt in his first season and a half with the Mets before his resurgence this year.
"Two years ago I’d get bood just walking down the sidewalk." he said.
For his performance, Knight won the MVP award, which is given by a panel of five writers
At one point during spring training, Knight was rumored to be gone from the team. Mets Manager Davey Johnson, however, convinced General Manager Tom Glavine of the importance of experience and tenacity, could not be underestimated.
"Ray was a very important part of the equation all year," Johnson said. "And he was in the World Series too."
World Series MVPs
1986 — Ray Knight. New York (NL)
1985 — Bret Saberhagen, Kansas City
(AL)
1984 — Alan Trammell, Detroit (AL)
Dick J. Reilly
"Hey, the disappointment (of not starting) is still there," a champagne-soaked Fernandez said after his relief work helped the Mets take an 8-5 victory over the Red Sox and a World Series title. "But I'm glac to be in a World Series. It's a chance of a lifetime."
With the Red Sox threatening to expand their 3-0 lead in the fourth, Fernandez was called to the team to replace starter Ron Darling
1982 — Darrell Porter, St. Louis (NL)
1982 — Ron Cey, Pedro Guerro,
Guerra
Fernandez compiled a 16-6 record during the regular season but was knocked from his starting post when manager Dave Johnson decided to use a three-man rotation during the World Series.
1980  - Mike Schmidt, Philadelphia (NL)
1979 — Willie Stargell, Pittsburgh (NL)
1978 — Bucky Dent, New York (AL)
1977 — Reggie Jackson, New York
Darling had hit Dave Henderson with a pitch to open the fourth and, with two out. Henderson advanced on a sacrifice by Bruce Hurst.
NEW YORK — Sid Fernandez,
denied a chance to start a World
Series game, three one of the most
important pitches in the New York
Mets' remarkable season Monday
night.
Pitcher's 2 innings aid Mets
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Fernandez, who blanked Boston over four innings in Game 5, walked from the bullden, then walked to put runners at first and second
Marty Barrett, who tied a Series record of 13 hits, then came to the plate. Fernandez threw an off-speed curveball that caught Barrett off guard. The Red Sox second baseman managed only a weak fly to right fielder Darryl Strawberry for the final out of the inning.
Fernandez then struck out four of the next six hitters before leaving for pinch-hitter Lee Mazzilli in the bottom of the sixth.
Doug Sellers, Springfield, Mo., freshman, left, Kevin O'Brien, St. Louis sophomore, center, and David Kaiser, Quinter junior, lift weights at Robinson.
Weightlifting provides satisfaction
Bv BRIAN SNYDER
The results aren't always the same, but the psychological reasons people have for working out with weights are similar, an authority on sports psychology at the University of Kansas said yesterday.
Sports writer
Although some might lift to develop huge muscles and others to complement a total fitness program, David Cook, director of sports psychology in the Athletic Department and faculty member in the department of physical education, said he had worked with a common instructor — personal satisfaction.
"They feel satisfaction knowing that they're getting ahead of other people." Cook said. "They're doing something not everybody else is doing. Our society gives advantage to people who get ahead. It does feel good when you get through with a weight workout."
Cook said there was a certain feeling that filters, or any other athlete, experienced when working out.
Brian Neely, Overland Park sophomore, said yesterday that he worked out in the weight room at Robinson Center about every other day to improve
his physique and to enhance his performance on the Kansas Crew team.
Cook said, "It gives us a feeling that there is something in our lives that we can control. Everyone looks for that. It gives them an ability to control them. They can say: 'I can control my performance.'"
Cook also commented on people who become obsessed with their conditioning. These types, he said, are perfectionists and always think that they could have done more in their workout.
After working out, Neely said he often had a feeling of greater self-worth.
"When you're depressed," Neely said, "you can do work out, and it makes you feel better."
Neely said although he often lifted at Robinson and had weight equipment at home, he wasn't worried about becoming obsessed with physical conditioning.
People who are overly dedicated are goal-oriented and often go beyond their physical capabilities. Cook said. In the end, they break themselves down both physically and mentally.
"It goes back to that old saying. 'No pain, no gain,'" he said. "In the weight room, it's you."
against the weights. It's a physiological fact that the system has to be overloaded before there can be improvement. What makes people different from others is the extent to which they can work through discipline.
"There is a gray area where discomfort becomes a warning from your body that there is a possibility for injury."
Cook used Alberto Salazar, a top marathon runner, as an example of someone who could become disassociated with pain when athletically active. He said Salazar collapsed after a marathon and when he was examined, he had a body temperature of 90 degrees.
"Some athletes can't distinguish between discomfort and warning pain." Cook said. "The power to disassociate is scary, and it isn't easy to develop."
He also said planned, structured workouts had a place in society because people now could work for it.
"Fads come along that don't change men's minds or bodies," Cook said. "But with the exercise fat, people get involved and see changes in their life, and they will continue."
Giants clutter race by defeating Skins
United Press International
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Joe Morris ran for 181 yards and scored twice, including a 13-yard run with 1:38 left last night, giving the New York Giants a 27-20 victory over the Washington Redskins.
The Giants' victory created a three-way tie between New York, Washington and Dallas in the NFC East at the midway point of the season. All three teams are 6-2, and the Giants are home against the Cowboys Sunday.
But the Giants came back to go 81 yards to score. The game-winning touchdown by one from the 13. Morris carried 31 times and caught five passes for 59 yards. Morris's rushing total was the second best of his career in history. He gained 202 yards in the last game against Pittsburgh last season.
Washington's Max Zendeles jacked a 29 yard field goal with 4:06 left to the game 20:20 after Raul Allegre scored 10 yards out with 11:09 left for the Giants.
Morris' 11-yard TD gave the Giants a 10-0 lead early in the second quarter, and a 30-yard pass from Phil Simmons to Bobby Johnson put New York ahead 20-3 early in the third. Allegree's 37-yard field goal on the Giants first possession gave New York the early lead.
The Redskins roared back from their 17-point deficit with two third-quarter touchdowns. George Rogers scored from 1 yard out and a 42-yard TD pass from Jay Schroeder to Gary Clark with 4:12 left in the third quarter made it 29-17. Zendejas, who kicked a 23-yard in the second quarter, then tied it after a 74-yard drive.
Perry Williams' interception and 15-yard return set up Johnson's TD, his first since catching two in the opener against Dallas. On second down, Johnson beat Vernon Dean on a fly pattern to take Simms' strike in the end zone.
Washington got back in the game with its two third-quarter TDs, then Schroeder guided them 74 yards in eight plays to Zandezias (tying field goal. He hit Art Monk for 47 yards to the 34, then Clark for 16 to the 18. After Lawrence Taylor sacked Schroeder for a 15-yard loss, Schroeder hit Clark for 21 yards to the 12 on third-and 25.
The Giants final drive brought the crowd of 75,923 back into the football game. Many of the fans brought portable televisions to Giants Stadium and watched the New York Mets' 8-5 victory over the Boston Red Sox in Game 7 of the World Series. The fans cheered whenever the Mets scored and a huge roar went up with 3:15 remaining in the third quarter after Boston's final out.
Morris set up his game-winning score with a 34 yard run to the 22 His touchdown capped a 10-play drive to ruin the Redskins' 17-point comeback.
Lakers waive Kellogg
United Press International
INGLEWOOD, Calif. — The Los Angeles Lakers placed rookie guard Ron Kellogg on waivers yesterday.
Schroeder completed 20 of 42 for
420 yards and was intercepted twice.
Clark caught 11 passes for 241 yards.
Simms was 20 of 30 for 219 vards.
Rogers has rushed for a touchdown in his last 11 games, tying him with Lenny Moore for second on the all-time NFL list and moving him two behind John Higgins' record of 13.
The Redskins moved into Giants' territory in the final seconds but were stopped when Schroeder's pass fell incomplete on fourth-and-8 from the 3rd.
Kellogg, a 6-foot-4 second-round selection from Kansas, missed most
Ron Kellogg
Kellogg was originally chosen by the Atlanta Hawks as the 42nd player overall in the National Basketball Association draft this summer.
of training camp and the exhibition season because of a strained hamstring.
He was traded to the Lakers along with Louisville standout forward Billy Thompson for forwards Mike McGee and Notre Dame's Ken Barlow
Last season for the Jayhawks, Kellogg averaged 15.9 points a game and had 110 assists. He hit 53 percent from the field and 84 percent of his free throws.
Kellogg figured to battle for one of the shooting guard spots on the Laker roster. Last season the Lakers had Michael Cooper and Byron Scott at the shooting guard spot.