University Daily Kansan / Wednesday. October 22, 1986
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Mets' bats give them Game 3
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BOSTON — The New York Met's bats, cold and leaden through October, sprung to life in four important offensive areas last night, signaling their slump may be over and the Red Sox may be in trouble.
The Mets bunched their hits so that they wasted few baserunners.
Analysis
managed a big inning, grabbed an early lead and scattered their hits throughout the lineup.
Of their 13 hits, they wasted only three in routing the Red Sox 7-1 to pull within 2-1 in the best-of-seven series. New York scored four runs on five hits in the first inning, two runs on three hits in the seventh, and one
run on two hits in the eighth.
"The big key was to start off big offensively," New York Manager Davey Johnson said. "We had to get on the board early. We score first and we hold the lead. That's been a team trademark all year. We've been in a slump that we hadn't been in all year."
"We just never got back in the ballgame," Boston Manager John McNamara said.
The first inning began with Len Dykstra's homer. The three additional runs forced Boston to answer with a big inning of its own — and the big inning never came.
By spreading hits throughout the order, the Mets may have overcome their virtual team-wide slumber at the plate.
safely, and nine of the hits came from the top four spots in the order. The Mets drew only one walk — to Keith Hernandez — and it set up a two-run single by Gary Carter.
Only Mookie Wilson failed to hit
With their two-run seventh, the Mets effectively put the game out of reach.
Conversely, Boston did little with its base runners. The Red Sox threatened four times in the first six innings, scoring only once. They put a runner in scoring position with one out in the second, stranded two runners apiece in the third and fifth, and wasted a leadoff walk in the sixth.
Part of Boston's failure resulted from a non-productive night from first baseman Bill Buckner. Twice he represented the tying run and neither time did he deliver a hit.
World Series play-by-play
The first pitch to Dykstra was thrown at 7:33 p.m. The temperature was 66 degrees, the humidity 35 percent and the wind was blowing from the southwest at 13 mph. Dykstra homered into the right-field seats on a 1-4 pitch for a 1-0 lead. Backman singled to right. Hernandez singled to left center, Backman taking third. Carter doubled to left center, Hernandez stopping at third and Backman scoring for a 2-0 lead. Sammy Stewart began warming up in the Boston bullpen. Strawberry struck out swinging. Knight reached on a fielder's choice to load the bases when Boston bungled a rundown play. Heep singled to center, Knight stopping at second and Hernandez and Carter scoring for a 4-0 lead. Wilson struck out swinging. Santana grounded out, Boggs to Barrett.
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New York First
Four runs, five hits, no errors.
Backman's bat, glove lead Mets
two left.
Boston Third
One run, two hits, no errors, two left.
BOSTON — If not for Wally Backman, the New York Mets might have been involved in another lateinning drama last night.
New York Seventh
Wilson fouled out to Buckner. Santana grounded a single to center. Dykstra singled to right, Santana stopping at second. Joe Sambito and Bob Stanley began warming up in the Boston bullpen. Backman flied out to Rice. Hernandez walked on four pitches to load the bases. Carter singled to left, Santana and Dykstra scoring for a 6-1 lead. Carter out in a rundown, Rice to Gedman to Barrett to Buckner to Owen.
Two runs, three hits, no errors.
New York Eighth
The second baseman contributed with his bat and glove in last night's 7-1 victory, drawing the Mets to Boston Red Sox in the World Series.
Sambito took the mound. Strawberry singled to center. Stanley resumed warming in the Boston bullpen. Strawberry moved to second on a wild pitch and to third on a passed ball. Knight doubled down the left-field line. Strawberry scoring for a 7-1 lead. Kevin Mitchell was announced as a pinch hitter for Heep. Stanley relieved Sambito. Lee Mazzilli batted for Mitchell and grounded out, Barrett to Buckner, Knight taking third. Wilson struck out swinging. Santana grounded out, Stanley to Buckner.
One run, two hits, no errors, one left. Final totals:
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New York — seven runs, 13 hits,
no errors, six left. Boston — one
run, five hits, no errors, six left.
WP - Ojeda (1-0). LP - Boyd (0-1). WGBRI - Dykstra (1). T - 2:58. A - 33,595.
Final totals:
Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd. Boston's emotional startling pitcher, sometimes has trouble finding his rhythm and confidence. Len Dykstra led off the game and blasted the third pitch into the right-field stands.
Backman kept the heat on, following with a single to right to further unsettle the right-hander. In all, Boyd surrendered four runs in the inning. Once out of it, he was solid, retiring 16 of the next 17 batters.
"Oil Can's a tough pitcher when he gets in his rhythm," Backman said. "You've got to jump on top of him quickly.
"You've got to stay within your own game plan. My job is just to move Len Dykstra along. When he hit the home run, I wasn't going to try to stop it. The ball hit into his击 if he were on base. I was still trying to move him along."
Tim Teufeil's first-game error gave Boston the Game 1 victory. In Game 3, Backman's play at the same position ensured the Mets' first triumph.
His one-out diving stop of Spike Owen's grounder in the fifth inning proved important, as Wade Boggs and Marty Barrett followed with singles. With no runner ahead of them, no runs scored, and New York's lead remained at 4-1.
In the bottom of the seventh, with the Mets up 6-1, Boston's Dave Henderson drew a leadoff walk. But Backman grabbed Owen's hard grounder to the hole, starting a double play.
Edmonton glides past Black Hawks, 9-1
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EDMONTON, Alberta — Defensemen Steve Smith and Wayne Gretzky each scored two goals last night, leading the Edmonton Oilers to a 9-1 victory over the Chicago Black Hawks.
Edmonton outshot Chicago 45-21 and took a 6-0 lead after two periods. Edmonton took a 3-0 lead in the first period. The Oilers first scored on Smith's slap shot at five minutes nine seconds into the period. Gretzky deflected Dave Hunter's pass pact Chicago goalie Bob Sauve making the score 2-0. Murray Bannerman replaced Sauve and gave up Jari Kurri's seventh goal of the season to lead 3-0.
Bannerman, however, had to leave the game with 1:01 left in the first period after being struck on the top of his head while lying on the ice.
Sauce returned and gave up three goals in the second period. Kevin McCelldan knocked in a rebound at 5:00 and led to a goal. Washington 4, Quebec 2
QUEBEC — Alan Haworth produced two third-period goals and Bobby Gould scored with 3:31 left in regulation time, carrying the Washington Capitals to a 4-4 overtime tie with the Quebec Nordiques.
Gould knocked his own rebound past Quebec goalie Clint Malarchuk at 16:29 of the third period to tie the score 4-4.
Washington, 2-4-1, came from
behind three times. Quebec, 3-2-2, got two goals from Brent Ashton.
Ashton gave Quebec a 4-3 lead with his second goal at 13:38 of the third period. Washington, which trailed 2-1 after two periods, tied the score 2-2 on Haworth's rebound goal at 9:47. Quebec's Mike Gillis scored 72 seconds later when he tipped in a pass from Ken Quinney for a 3-2 Nordiques lead.
Haworth then scored his second goal on a sharp-angle shot from the left face-off circle to tie the score 3-3.
New York Islanders 6, New Jersey 3
UNIONDALE, N.Y. — Brent Sutter scored two unassisted goals to register his 300th career point, lifting the New York Islanders to a 8-3 vice.
tory over the New Jersey Devils.
New Jersey, which had won its first three games of the season, lost its third straight game.
Devils goalie Chris Terrieri, a former Providence University star making his first NHL start, allowed four goals on 20 shots in the first period.
Defensmen Ken Leiter opened the scoring with a slapshot from the right point at 2:09. Tomas Jonsson gave the Islanders a 2-0 lead with a short-handed breakaway goal at 6:20.
Richard Kromm slipped around Devils defenseman Randy Vielschick and flipped the puck between Tereri's legs at 16:07 for a 3-0 lead.
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