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Oakland’s field has shorter grass,
each club at the games.
a deeper right field, players say, Roger Craig four years ago, the
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years ago. The players and Manager winning 3-2 victory over Chicago, rotation, as they did against the
“I won’t think about it for as
long as I can,” said Ganelts, 14-5
during the season, “I never thought pronounced Garrclts the Game 1
"I look for an awfully good about being the starter in a first
matchup,” Rosen said. "The series is game of the scries.”
“So many people talk about our going to be pitching." • ••
nh:"" fifst pilc|)ing matchup will Norm Sherry will have some advice
. . . lake place at die Oakland Coliseum for him.
A.3 between the Athletics’ Dave Stew- “He needs to get his breaking be ready,” Sherry said. “LaCoss is expected to face a six-wcck delay
3Tl Jin/i the Cfiliilts’ Scott Gflrrclts. hull nvnr mnn* mncictontlw than hr» nil rinki •• otnwinn kin _______
chosen by Craig over- Rick Reus- did the last two games,” Sherry
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‘Candlestick also has a see-
“If I were a pitcher (the Oakland through fence so you really don’t struction of a stadium in downtown
big factors this swirling winds,'cold, fog and empty ballpark, 'but as 'a 'hitter' there^are the time,” Henderson said. “Your o^ne^Bob^Lurie befieve^ wfil tolh galPc.s.the_.flags hung ,iraP m
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j Hitters complain about the “dead better than Candlestick.
Henderson, who played 15 games air” at Oakland at night, but both
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„ ?,AKLANP,’ ,,C2h^ .(APL u' Cavernous Candlestick Park, fouls go to die. “Candlestick also has a see- November that would allow con-
Unhke some World Senes in which home of the Giants on the western - ....
artificial turf, a dome or odd field
dimensions were I '_ "
year neither the Oakland Athletics
nor the San Francisco Giants will
to. He hit .105 and left 17 runners
none as
badly as the three who loaded the
bases in Game 4 in the bottom of
the ninth with two outs.
“This is my biggest disappoint-
ment,” Dawson said, “and part of
the reason is, I still don’t think
they’re bcucr than us.
“I know they aren’t,” he said,
then added, almost reflexively as
The biggest difference will be in
the stands. Oakland fans like “the
wave,” Giants fans scream more,
but there will be plenty of fans of praised for its genteel accommoda- a slightly larger playing surface and president Al Rosen and Manager
„i..k ». tion wi(h nature an(j fanS . a reces- a deeper right field, players say, Roger Craig four years ago, the
The Oakland Coliseum, one of sed field, three tiers of unobstructed despite the fact that Candlestick’s Giants have tried to use Candlc-
' i seats, big scoreboards and a view of right field line is listed at 335 feet, stick’s problems to their advantage reputation.
the hills in the distance. five feet more than the Coliseum’s, psychologically, knowing that other
Both favor pitchers, with 400- “You can put anything you want teams hate playing there.
But the Giants can’t wait to flee
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passage of a ballot measure in
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shore °f the bay. >s notorious for its Coliseum) might be my favorite know where you are on the field all
‘ ' ,” Henderson said. “Your
seats. In October, though, the ’Stick probably 10 other places I’d rather depth perception is kind of off.”
..... can ho as pleasant and packed as play,” said Oakland outfielder Dave
have an advantage at their ballparks. Dodger Stadium. j-
Cozy Oakland Coliseum, the wi’thSanFrancisco late Tn 1987?
Athletics’ home a few miles away
on the east side of the bay, is
CHICAGO (AP) - Life in the few hitters could solve for nearly a f\._“z.
Second City goes on, though not month, was the same Les Lancaster weight?
without second thoughts. who entered Game 3 thinking he’d ’’
And the first one that comes to inherited a 2-0 count against Robby who once was given more intention-
mind is the same one that popped Thompson and grooved the fastball ‘ r J ;
into John McKay s mind after that ended up over the left-field failing Broadway show, was the straight times against San Diego,
someone asked the then-Tampa Bay fence and added up to a 5-4 Giants’ same Andre Dawson that San
coach about his team’s sloppy play, victory. Francisco pitchers walked any-
Execution? McKay said, “I didn’t expect him to be body -everybody, it seemed - to get
glumly repeating the question but swinging because I thought the ** - - - -
brightening with the thought. “I’m count was 3-0,” Lancaster offered wanting, though perhaps
all for it” meekly, proving the new math can
And yet. Cubs will be Cubs, sometimes be just as tricky as the
loveable - if not always laughable - old. “If I would have known it was
to the bitter end. It is that very 2-0, I would have come back with
premise that informs the play another slider.”
“Bleacher Bums,” which has been How else to explain the way a
held over two months at the Organic slugger who once carried the Cubs,
Theater during this improbable deadly enough to compile MVP
baseball season extinguished by numbers for a last-place team two
Giants from San Francisco. years ago and the kind of numbers Cub fans have been doing since the
“These guys arc foldup artists,” i" 1,0 3—-- •u:2 “““ ±22 J---- -r L • ....
Marvin, the drama’s villain, says most players would kill for - 21
during “Bleacher Bums" after home runs, 77 RBIs - was unable,
another fictional Cubs loss.“Thcsc
guys are springtime wonders.
They're heartbreakers.”
And so they are. In the eternal
scheme of things (forget 1908, the
last lime the Cubs won the World
Series; it seems like an eternity),
that’s what they will always be.
How else to explain the way a
manager, touched by genius during
the regular season, should be struck
dumb during a seven-game scries?
Yet, the same Don Zimmer who
had commercials for a fried chicken
chain and a weight-loss program
running concurrently was the same
Don Zimmer who ordered an
intentional walk to Brett Butler in
Game 1, virtually guaranteeing the
full table San Francisco’s Will
Clark grandly slammed.
That may have been only the
worst of a host of bad choices off
the managerial menu. And even if
Zimmer realized his luck had
changed, his demeanor had not.
“I manage this team,”
bristled, “the way I want to.”
How else to explain the way a
reliever, who put together 30 2-3
scoreless innings in the heat of the
summer, forgot what the count was
in the cool breezes of autumn?
Yet, the same Les Lancaster that
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Since the arrival of Giants
Right off the bat, you don’t
„ want that Rickey Henderson on
seventh game in 1962. The New Rcuschcl (17-8) is the likely base,” Sherry said. “And if you
York Yankees won that game 1-0 to Game 2 starter on Sunday, probably keep him off base you’ve got the
"7 ' '' '■ facing the A’s Mike Moore. But the kids with power to contend with,
!■-; (Jose) Canseco and the first basc-
If the Giants go with a three-man man - what’s his name, (Mark)
— - - — w < - ...» «»■«• m wail.;* McGwire.**
Roger Craig steered clear of Can- had a 5?40 carncd-run average in the Cubs, Kelly Downs (3,12~ERA"in The Giants did suffer another
Life goes on for Cubs
finally, to carry even his own to the World Scries seven times -
? the last being 1945 - and the play-
Yct, the same Andre Dawson, offs twice. Five years ago, they won
the NL East, won the first two
contests, and then buckled three
The worst weather, though, is in
the early and middle part of the final game.
The weather was a little balmier
than usual this time of year, but
closer to what is expected during
the World Series than the frigid
the best baseball parks in the seats, big scoreboards and a view of right field line is listed al 335 feet, stick’s problems to their advantage reputation1''1' a ITlucl’ ,)Ulir nJghLS.ant!.wi'li^u.StS.of m'tlsummcr
country, and Candlestick Park, one the hills in the distance. five feet more than the Coliseum’s, psychologically, knowing that other Indeed, for the San Francisco
of the worst, have three things in Both favor pitchers, with 400- “You can put anything you want teams hate playing there. 49crs during the football season the
common - real grass, similar sized foot center fields, deep power alleys on the walls, but all the players But the Giants can’t wait to flee weather is ideal and Lhc stadium is
fields and good, well-balanced and, particularly in Oakland, vast know Candlestick has a shorter Candlestick and are hoping for fine.
teams- . tracts of foul territory where pop right field,” Henderson said. passage of a ballot measure in Game 4 of the National League
Pitching, as ever, Series key
dtestick Park - blustery once again five-game scries to Reuschel’s 5.19 two playoff relief outings) and the pitching setback Tuesday, although
. - '. ' ' .' . - - — - - ---------- banged-up Don Robinson and Mike it won’t affect the World Scries. It
games against the Chicago Cubs - on “I won’t think about it for as LaCoss all are possibilities. Sherry, was learned that hard-luck Dave
who wasn’t even aware Craig had Dravecky re-fractured his left arm
1 in the celebration after Monday’s
starter, said Robinson’s sore right game when a teammate bumped
knee and LaCoss’ sprained left knee into him from behind. Dravecky,
When he docs, pitching coach both are improving. who broke the same humerus bone
>rm Cherry u/in “Robinson said he’s going to on Aug. 15 in a game in Montreal
for him. feel pain when he pitches but he’ll after coming back from cancer, is
“He needs to get his breaking be ready,” Sherry said. “LaCoss is expected to face a six-wcck delay in
and the Giants’ Scott Gareelts, ball over more consistently than he all right.” starting his rehabilitation program.
. -. . . . -. 7, Z-2Z :— „.j games,” Sherry Sherry and his pitching staff will “It saddens me no end to know
the Giyits basked m the day-altcr chcl. Garrclts’ immediate predcces- said outside the Giants’ nearly have their hands full trying to his convalescing period has been set
- sor: Jack Sanlord, who started and deserted clubhouse Tuesday. “And devise ways to contain the A’s. back,” Rosen said,
lost in San Francisco’s most recent he can’t have the shaky first two
World Series appearance in the innings he’s been having lately.”
L 2 “7 >n 1962. The New Rcuschcl (17-8) is the likely base,” Sherry
V'lnl'nr'c u . in that ivimn 1 c t. l • it
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - CL.2.1 T_Z. ‘_2 , . -
Pitching is supposed to be the after three days of calm for the playoff and was 1-0 in two starts
Achilles heel of the San Francisco „ ' '. Z_'__
Giants in their World Scries match- Their day off but were scheduled to
up with the Oakland Athletics. Al work out there this afternoon.
pitching, and while it's true that
we’ve had things happen to our
staff. And it’s proved itself,'
general manager said Tuesday as
glow of their first National League
pennant since 1962.
Rosen was busy warding off
ticket-seeking strangers as he talked
optimistically of his ballclub’s
chances of winning its first World capture the title. 1
Garrclts, who got the official nod rotation has not been disclosed.
shortly after Monday’s pennant-
had a 5.40 carncd-run average in the Cubs, Kelly Downs (3.12 ERA in
al passes than the backers of a
same Andre Dawson that
Francisco pitchers walked
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