Royals flush Cards in seventh game, 11-0
KANSAS CITY, Mo.
(AP)—The Kansas City Royals,
rallying behind the fivo-hlt pit
ching of Bret Saberhagon. com
plated one of baseball's most
shocking comebacks Sunday
night and won their first World
Series championship, defeating
the St. Untls Cardinals 11-0 in
the decisive seventh game.
The Cardinals, who had seen
their 3-1 lead in games vanish
along with their hitting, simply
collapsed in the final game.
What had been billed as the
greatest seventh-game pitching
matchup in more than two
decades wont lip in smoke
created by the Royals bats. The
Cardinals' ace. 21-game winner
John Tudor, couldn't even make
it through the third inning and
wound up In a Kansas City
hospital for stitches after cut
ting his index finger on an elec
tric fan in the clubhouse.
The destruction occured at
the hands of platoon outfielder
Darryl Motley, who hit a two
run homer and drove in three
runs; Steve Balboni. who drove
in two of Kansas City's three
runs in the third inning: and the
suddenly rejuvenated George
Brett, who had four hits.
The Royals put the game
away with six runs in the fifth
inning, during which both pit
cher Joaquin Andujar and
Manager Whitey Herzog were
elected by home plate umpire
lion Denkinger. Herzog had
argued a critical Denkinger call
at first base that fueled the
Royals' winning, ninth-inning
rally in Game tj, and con
secutive hall calls on Inside pit
ches to Royals catcher Jim
Sundberg brought all the
frustration erupted to the
surface.
While the Royals completed a
comeback unprecedented in the
game-recovering not only
from a t-3 deficit in the
American League playoffs but
from 0-2 and 1-3 disadvantages
in the Series—the Cardinals fad
ed ihto offensive oblivion.
After leading the National
League with a .264 team
average during the season, the
Cardinals hit just .185 in the
World Series and scored a total
of 13 runs.
Fart of the Cardinal^' offen
sive woes probably could be
traced to the absence of injured
laadoff hitter Vince Coleman,
but the iack of St. Louis hitting
also had' to be [a tribute to the
young, well-schooled pitching
staff of. the Royals
The Royals pitchers not only,
quieted the St Lobis bats-but.
frustrated'and eventually halted
altogether the vaunted running
game of the Cardinals^; The
Cards had stolen 314 bases dur
ing the season, for an average of
nearly two a game, but managed
just two sivipes in the Series
against the predominantly left
handed Royals staff.
This night, however, belong
ed to a 21-year-old right-hander
by the name of Saberhagen,
whose wife, janeane. had given
birth to their first child, son
Drew, the day before.
Saberhagen, who had won
Game 3 to give the Royals hope,
struck out two and walked
none.
Saberhagen, selected most
valuable player, allowed a
second-inning single to jack
Clark, then retired 11 in a row
before giving up another single
to Tito I^ndrum with two out in
the fifth inning, f ie also allowed
singles to Ozzie Smith, Andy
Van Slyke and Terry Pendleton.
Saberhagen pitched the
Royals’ first victory, of this
Series, a six-hitter in. Game 3:
The Royals’ hitters,. mean- -
while, asked fdr.no quarter, and
gave none. 'After dispensing
with Tudor, they slugged their
way - through another six St
l<nuis- pitchers, winding up
With 14 hits and the greatest
margin of victory, ever in the
seventh game of a World Series.
The Cardinals used five pitchers
in the fifth inning, tying, a
World Series record set by .'
Baltimore in 1979.
In their big inning, the Royals
sent 11 men to the plate against
Bill Campbell, Jeff I^ahti. Rickey
Horton. Andujar and, finally,
Bob Forsch, in the process
building their biggest winning
margin of the season. They had
won two earlier games 10-1.
Without the services of a
designated hitter, the Royals
had routed the Cardinals, who
were in their 14th World Series.
The Royals, born of 1969 expan
sion, had been in the Series on
ly once before, losing in six
games to Philadelphia in 1980.
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