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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, October 9, 1986
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Scott's pitches hold Mets scoreless
United Press International
HOUSTON — The New York Mets had no choice but to complain about Mike Scott's pitches. After all, they sure couldn't hit them.
With chilling accuracy and scorching speed, Scott struck out a record-tying 14 batters. Scott's performance and Glenn Davis' home run helped the Houston Astros open the National League playoffs with a 1-0 victory over the Mets.
Scott brushed aside a first-inning challenge by the Mets, who claimed he was doctoring his split-fingered fastball. He then proceeded to hold the league's best hitting team hitless until the fourth inning and limited them to five singles over the course of the game. He gave up just one walk.
The former Met struck out Ray Knight with Darryl Strawberry on third base in the ninth inning and joined John Candelaria of the 1975 Pirates as the only pitcher to strike
out 14 batters in a National League playoff game.
"You have a good, veteran umpire behind home plate in Doug Harvey." Houston Manager Hal Lanier said. "I've probably never seen better pitching. Mike just had outstanding control of his pitches. I never thought of relieving him."
Davis, Houston's home run leader with 31, celebrated his first playoff at-bat by lining a shot into the center/field seats leading off the second inning.
Before a crowd of 44,131, Bill Doran and Jose Cruz added sparkling defensive plays and gave the Astros a 1-0 lead in the best-of-seven series. Game two is Thursday night in the Astrodome.
Carter was talking to the wrong guy. In an interview earlier in the day, Harvey flatly stated, "Mike Scott absolutely and positively does nothing illegal to the baseball."
Apparently, the Mets thought that
way, too. On his first at-bat, Mets catcher Gary Carter asked Harvey to inspect the ball for scuff marks.
On the next pitch, Carter struck out and the Mets did virtually nothing until the eighth. With runners on first and second and one out, Scott struck out Wally Backman and Keith Hernandez for his 12th and 13th strikeouts.
and then store second.
Strawberry advanced to third but later was stranded when Scott struck out Knight to end the game.
Scott, who came to the Astros from
the Mets on Dec. 10, 1982, in a trade for Danny Heep, struck out Carter and Hernandez three times apiece and struck out both Strawberry and Knight twice.
Scott threw 126 times. Only 37 pitches were balls. In the first three innings he pitched only times. Only one fell outside the strike zone.
Scott, who pitched a no-hitter to clinch the leagues West division title for the Astros, dismissed talk that he doctors the ball.
"It doesn't make any difference to me if they think I'm doing things like that," he said. "People have been saying that for two months."
Several Mets — particularly Hernandez and Knight — complained about pitches that were called strikes.
"Doug Harvey does a good job back there," Dave Johnson, the Mets manager, said. "There might have been a couple of questionable calls back there, but the umpiring didn't beat us — Mike Scott did."
Javhawks rout Kansas State in tennis
Bv ANNE LUSCOMBE
Sports writer
Confidence and statistics were boosted as the Kansas women's tennis team shut out Kansas State 9-0 yesterday at the varsity courts behind Allen Field House.
The Jayhawks were victorious in all singles and doubles matches. Most of the matches were won easily as Kansas pushed up individual records.
"I think we did well," No 1 player Tracy Tracy said afterward. "We knew we wouldn't have that tough of a match. Sometimes knowing that can make you go into the game lax, but I think we were mentally ready."
Treps played doubles with Jeanette Jonsson, Marie Hibbard was paired with Barb Iman, and Susie Berglund was matched with Janelle Bolen. All of those players played in singles except **oLEN**, who was replaced by Christine Kim.
Treps said the team's 9-0 win felt good, especially knowing that it was one more win to add to the list.
Head coach Scott Perelman took pleasure in seeing his team trounce Kansas State.
Perelman said he thought Kansas State's team had improved over past Wildcat teams.
"The important thing when you're better than another team is not to let up," he said. "You need to go out there and beat them as quickly and as badly as you can."
The closest match was between No. 2 players Jonsson and Lena Svensson 6-4, 7-6. Had a spectator closed his eyes and only listened to the game, he would have felt transported to another country. The players conversed in Swedish as they discussed points.
"The match at No. 2 was the best match of the day." Perelman said. "Jeanette played well to heat her."
The team went into the tournament confident of a solid victory. Taking the tournament seriously was difficult at a time.
"You don't have the anticipation part of it, but there are things you can work on." Hibbard, the No. 4 player, said. "You never play a perfect match, so there are always things to focus on."
Chris Feeley/KANSAN
Tracy Treps, the top KU women's tennis player, competes against Kansas State's No. 1 player, Annika Emtell, Treps defeated Emtell 6-2, 6-0 yesterday as KU beat the Wildcats 9-0 on the varsity courts behind Allen Field House.
Raider suspended after review of tapes
Los Angeles charges Mackovic broke NFL rules by making film public
From Kansan wires
NEW YORK — Defensive end Greg Townsend of the Los Angeles Raiders was suspended for one game for three flagrant fouls committed against the Kansas City Chiefs, Pete Rozelle, commissioner of the National Football League, announced yesterday.
"The one-game suspension, without pay, is effective for the Raiders" Oct. 12 game in Los Angeles against Seattle." Rozelle said in a statement.
Townsend can appeal the suspension.
Chiefs head coach John Mackovic on Tuesday showed films of the
"Following a review of television and coaching tape, and film of the game, I have today (Wednesday) notified defensive lineman Greg Townsend of the Raiders that he is being suspended for one game as a result of flagrant unsportsmanlike conduct he committed against three Kansas City players." Rozelle said in his statement.
"Specifically, the review revealed that Townsend, while Kansas City had possession of the ball during the second period of the game, committed the following acts:
Chiefs-Raiders game to the media and said the Raiders were trying to hurt members of his team.
- "Stomped on the uncovered head of Kansas City tackle David Lutz, who had lost his helmet during the melee and was in a prone position on the field.
Brad Budde and, at a point at least 15 yards from the ball carrier, struck Budde in the back. This unsportmanlike act, undetected by the game officials, incited a general melee involving players of both teams.
"Pursued Kansas City guard
"Grabbed the helmet facemask of Kansas City guard Mark Adickes, swung him forcibly and ultimately ripped the helmet from his head.
"All three of the above mentioned actions — particularly the last two, which involved the highly vulnerable
head and neck areas — could have inflicted serious injury. None of this kind of behavior, provoked or unprovoked, can be tolerated in the NFL." Roselle said.
Adickes was later found to have a sprained neck that may keep him out of this week's game at Cleveland.
In the Chief's film of the Raiders' fight-marred 24-17 victory, it appeared Budde was punched by Raiders defensive end Howie Long, who drew a 10-yard penalty. Los Angeles safety Vann McEllroy is the only player ejected from Sunday's game, in which the Raiders rallied from a 17-0 deficit.
See RAIDER5, p. 12, col. 6
AL series at 1-1 after Boston win
United Press International
BOSTON — The second game of the American League playoffs would have been better suited for Anaheim, Calif. That's where Disneyland is, and this game was as goyous as they come.
The Red Sox took advantage of a glaring midday sun and a side show of comical California blunders to rout the Angels 9-2 yesterday and even the AL playoffs at one game apiece.
In one of the most bizarre games played at Fenway Park, the teams seemed determined to trade Little League blunders. With good pitching by Bruce Hurst, the Red Sox finally broke the game open with a three-run seventh inning to send the best-of-seven series to the West Coast even up.
"It's the nature of the game to make an occasional mistake," said Red Sox Manager John McNamara. "We're all human beings and nobody is infailible."
After a travel day today, the series resumes at Anaheim Stadium tomorrow night with left-hander John Candelaria pitching for the Angels and Dennis "Oil Can" Bovd going for the Red Sox.
Although Jim Rice hit a two-run homer for Boston and the Angels' Wally Joyner connected for the first rookie homer ever hit in playoff competition, the game was more noteworthy for its mistakes. A capacity crowd of 32,796 witnessed the following:
- Three errors in the seventh inning by three different California infielders, allowing the Red Sox to score three insurance runs.
A poor coaching decision by Angels third base coach Moose Stubing in the sixth inning, resulting in Grib being tagged out and taking the Angels out of a potentially big inning.
A ground ball lost in the sun by losing pitcher Kirk McCaskill in the second inning that cost the Angels a run.
"A running mistake by Marty Barrett in the first inning that killed another promising inning for the Red Sox.
A pop fly that was lost in the sun by Angels second baseman Bobby Grich in the fifth inning, enabling the Red Sox to score the go-ahead run.
Shoddy defense by the Red Sox
in the fourth inning that cost them a run and could have cost them more.
A bad-hop single by Spike Owen on a double-play grounder that helped the Red Sox score a run in the second inning.
Through it all, Hurst persevered and picked up the pieces from fallen star Roger Clemens, who was beaten by Mike Witt 8-1 in Tuesday night's opener.
Hurst went the distance, scattering 11 hits while walking none and striking out four. Boston got to three California pitchers for 13 hits.
A baserunning blunder and a double play ruined Boston's chance to open the game up in the first two innings.
Wade Boggs, the major league's leading hitter, tripled off the famed Green Monster wall in left center and Barrett followed with a line double. With two out, Bill Buckner flied out, Rice grounded to shortstop Dick Schofield, and Barrett, instead of holding the bag, started toward third and was tagged out by Schofield.
The Red Sox got some help from the sun and the grass in the second inning to score again, but despite getting four hits, they managed only one run as Buckner grounded out.
Rich Gedman led off the inning with a single and, with one out, Spike Owen hit a potential double-play grounder to Schofield, but the ball knicked the edge of the infield grass and skipped over Schofield's head for a single.
Boggs hit a high chopper to the left of the mound that McCaskill lost in the sun. The ball bounced off his chest for a single, loading the bases.
Barrett's single scored Gedman, but Brian Downing, who was playing shallow, charged the ball quickly and third base coach Rene Lachemann stopped Owen at third. Buckner then grounded into the inning doubling double play.
The Red Sox defense allowed the Angels to score a run in the fourth. Downing and Doug DeCinces opened with singles and, after George Hendrick popped out, Grich, on a hit-and-run play, grounded to third baseman Boggs, who booted the grounder, loading the bases.
Ryan to meet Ojeda in NL second game
United Press International
And this is just what Astros Manager Hal Lanier wanted when he placed the fireballer on the disabled jist against his will.
HOUSTON — A healthy Nolan Ryan will take the Houston mound to face New York's Bob Ojeda in Game 2 of the National League playoffs tonight.
Ryan was 12-8 with a .34 ERA in 1986, but spent most of the season battling an elbow problem, which left him on the disabled list twice.
His second trip to the DL in late July was cause for some words between Ryan and management, but Lanier now points to the playoffs and says the move worked out for the best.
Ryan finished the season strong, going 5-1 with a 2.31 ERA since coming off the DL. He said he now understood the reasons behind the move, adding that he was now in a "good groove" for the playoffs.
"I can understand him not wanting to go on the disabled list, but I think he can understand I wanted Nolan Ryanathan from Aug. 12 to the end of the season," Lanier said. "When we went to the west coast (in early September), I knew we would not win the Western Division without him healthy."
"I don't have the strength or the stamina that I had 10 years ago," he said. "I think for 100 to 120 pitches, I'm still very effective. I'll go as long
as they want me to."
Lanier had been limiting Ryan to 100 pitches since the all-time strikeout leader came off the disabled list, but said the pitch limit would be lifted for the playoffs.
"He is in top form," Lanier said. "He still pitches in pain, but not in the kind of pain that would take him out of a ballgame."
The opposing Ojeda put together his best year in 1986, going 18-5 with a 2.57 ERA, the second-lowest in the NL.
The 28-year-old left-hander, who came to the Mets during the off-season in a trade with Boston, gives much of the credit to his defense.
"This is an outstanding team I'm surrounded by," he said. "I've never believed that you could do it alone."
"Every time a team is known for its pitching, you can take a look around and they'll have an outstanding or above average defense. I really haven't done anything different."
Ojeda says he sees much of his own club when he looks at the Astros, in that the leadoff men must be kept off base.
"I think they are a team similar to ours. They've got guys who can run on them and keep your attention, and later guys that can drop the bomb on you," he said. "If you can keep the little guys off the bases, you'll be better if somebody bombs you."
Sole bowl winners to gather for Javhawk football reunion
By NICQLE SAUZEK
Twenty-five years ago, the Kansas football team gathered in Allen Field House for practice because of the near-blizzard conditions Kansas had that December.
On a chalkboard filled with 'x's and o''
's head coach Jack Mitchell
prepared his team for the third annual
Bluebonnet Nettow in Houston.
Practice was light. There was no contact hitting, no room for normal football drills. But there was intensity and a desire to win.
The game was not only a monumental one for the Jayhawks, it was a chance for redemption after a tailed season finale.
Tomorrow, team members from the 61 team will join lawrence in revive old memories, friendships and highlights of their 33-7 Bluebonnet Bowl win over Rice -- the only game win in Kansas history.
Kansas' K-Club and team member Mike Fisher, fullback and tackle, have gathered about 50 players for a 25-year reunion at Alvamar Country Club, not the Field House, for a celebration, not a pre-bowl game practice.
The team will also be recognized during the Kansas-Iowa State homecoming game Saturday.
help." Fisher said with a shake of the head and a mischievous grin. "He hasn't changed much.
"Coach Mitchell was a wonderfully witty man that seduced a group of young men into being better than they were. He taught us to never try to win. The idea was to play good and be able to walk off the field knowing that physically we had won the game if not numerically."
"Coach Mitchell told me to tell all of the players to bring their uniforms in case the varsity team needed
Ironically, numbers ended up haunting the team from the first game to the bowl game finish.
cast before the season began.
Kansas had been chosen by Big Eight Conference sportwriters and sportscasters to win the conference title that year. The Jayhawks had gathered 78 percent of the total votes
Instead, Kansas didn't win its first three season games, losing by 1 point twice and tying the other.
Things looked bleak for the Jayhawks. Then fortunes changed, as Kansas won its next six games, until the final season game against Missouri when the Jayhawks were beaten 10-7.
The team had just returned from Berkeley where it had badly beaten California 53.7
"By that time, we were mentally too high for our own good." Mitchel said. "The game against California was perfect. We played so well we were far overconfident.
'We thought we were going to kick
the hell out of them, and they ended
unbeating us by three points."
So, when Kansas was offered the chance to play in the Bluebonnet Bowl, Mitchell jumped on it.
They had not won physically or numerically. The team had something to prove.
And though Rice was favored over Kansas, the Jayhawks redeemed themselves by beating the Owls in a rainy game on Dec. 16.
Luckily for Kansas' pride, the Jayhawks were handed a second chance to prove themselves as the talented team they really were, Mitchell said.
"Coach Mitchell's game plan was to have three or four greats and
many combative backups," Fisher said. "He convinced the average player that he was a great athlete and that he could do anything in the world."
One such great player was John Hadi, KU quarterback, punter and running back, who set up the goahead score with a 41-yard fake punt run with 5:05 left in the first quarter. The touchdown that followed put the Jayhawks ahead 12-7, while Rice never scored again.
"For 25 years that run has been described as a well-schemed and executed play." Hadl said.
The truth is, the play was a fluke
See BOWL. p. 12, col. 1