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Between the two clubs, they
should come away with their
share of postseason awards
Hoyt and Dotson both are Cy
Young candidates Ron Kittle
of the White Sox, with 35
homers, 100 RBI and a 254
average, is a Rookie of the
Year contender Baltimore
has two Most Valuable
Player candidates in Eddie
Murray, 33 homers and ill
RBI. and Cal Ripken Jr., 27
homers. 102 RBI and a 310
batting average And the
White Sox would be disap-
pointed if Fisk — 28 homers
and 86 RBI - were overlook-
ed entirely in the MVP vote
"Figure-wise. we’re the top
two teams in the league.” Kit-
tle said. "They beat us seven
out of 12 times, but in three of
those losses, we played them
neck-and-neck. We have the
power pitchers, and they
have the finesse pitchers ”
Besides speed, pitching of-
fered another vast difference
between the two clubs,
although both came away
with considerable success
McGregor was the perfect ex-
ample of the difference. He
had only 86 strikeouts to
Hoyt's 148. but McGregor's
earned run average was 3 18
to Hoyt 's 3 66
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he changes rhythm,” Demp-
sey said of McGregor “And.
he's knowledgeable, he
knows the hitters. He tries to
make them hit the ball where
it will do the least harm, to
take away their strengths ''
Much also has been made
of the Orioles’ edge in ex-
perience Besides Fisk,
designated hitter Greg Luzin-
ski was the only other White
Sox player in the storting
lineup with World Series ex-
perience Luzinski was with
the I960 World Senes cham-
pion Philadelphia Phillies. On
the other hand, the Orioles
have many returning players
from their 1979 World Series
club, including McGregor.
"Four years later, four
years older and wiser, maybe
there is a little less
pressure,” McGregor said.
"but I’m still excited."
LaRussa did not want to
downplay the importance of
experience, but he refused to
concede the edge to the
Orioles because of it.
Experience is a benefit I
never underestimate it, ex-
cept we have guys with ex-
perience As a team, they
have more, but it didn't
bother us in the pennant
race." la Russa said
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stage of his career. he might picked by Manager Joe
be just as happy to be Rick Altobelli to start the opener,
Dempsey who were favored 13-10 to win
Dempsey, catcher for the the playoffs by Nevada odd-
Baltimore Orioles, was a man smakers.
on the spot as the American "You don’t want to pay so
league playoffs began Con- much attention to Cruz or
sidered one of baseball's best- Law that the guy up at the
throwing catchers. Dempsey plate hits one off the clock.”
will have to contend with the McGregor said after Tues-
fleet feet of the Chicago White day's workout. “Tve seen
Sox. that happen so many times.
As a team this season, the You try a couple of trick
White Sox stole 165 bases, 77 moves to first, and then you
by Rudy Law and 57 by Julio throw one right down the mid-
Cruz. die.
The way Dempsey was “If they get on base, to tell
talking on Tuesday, he was you the truth. I’d just as soon
relishing the limelight. He’s tell them to steal second,
never been too shy. third and home. take the run
Over the last several and go sit down in the
seasons. Orioles fans have dugout." McGregor said
gotten used to Dempsey's an- McGregor will be followed
ties, especially during rain in the playoff rotation by
delays when he comes onto rookie right-hander Mike
the tarp and imitates, among Boddicker. 164. left-hander
others, former Manager Earl Mike Flanagan. 12-4. and
Weaver, his teammates and, right-hander Storm Davis,
most memorably. Fisk. The 13-7. Jim Palmer will be in
object of Dempsey’s Fisk the bullpen
caricature was the 1975 World
Series when, as the Boston The winningest pitcher in
catcher. Fisk homered to win baseball this year, right-
the sixth game against Cin- hander LaMarr Hoyt, 24-10.
cinnati. Fisk's homer was was Manager Tony
down the left-field line, and, LaRussa's choice to start for
as he danced sideways Chicago. Following Hoyt,
toward first, Fisk waved the who was 2-1 against
ball into fair territory Baltimore. will be left-hander
Now, Dempsey and Fisk Floyd Bannister, 16-10, right-
are opposing catchers in the hander Rich Dotson, 22-7. and
AL playoffs, which begin to- left-hander Britt Burns, 10-11.
day. Fisk, signed by the Since the All-Star break.
White Sox as a free agent in Chicago's first three starters
1*11. probably won't have to have a combined record of
worry too much about Orioles *24.
baserunners. They stole only "So much has been said
81 bases this season about Chicago's hitting,"
But Dempsey already has Dempsey said. “But I don't
token note of the White Sox's think any team can put up
baserunning threat. three starters like Chicago. I
"Sure they're going to try don't fear their hitting like
to run — with guys like Cruz their pitching. Over a short
and law," Dempsey said. series when you can throw
“They’re going to try to run Hoyt, Dotson and Bannister,
us off the field, but we're you have, more or less, three
ready.” legitimate 20-game winners.”
across the plate.
"The game was one pitch
the way it turned out," said
Reuss “It was a good pitch to
a good hitter "
Schmidt said he wasn't cer-
tain the ball was going to
clear the centerfield fence.
He had thrown me a cou-
ple high and inside and I was
just trying to find the ball to
tell the truth," recalled
Schmidt, who led the majors
with 40 homers this season
but never before had hit one
in the league championships.
“It just so happened the pitch
was down and over the plate
. I just sort of threw the bat
at it.
“I thought it had a chance
to go out, but when (Ken)
1 andreaux kept his arm up in
the air at the fence. I thought
he’d caught it.”
Both the winners and the
losers agreed it was a well-
played contest.
“Carlton pitched a super
game,” said Dodger
Manager Tom Lasorda. “We
had our chances to score a
couple of times and we didn't.
Who would have thought that
Schmidt's home run in the
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - flrat Inning would have bean
Mike Schmidt says the open- all they needed to win.
ing game of the 1963 National "Reuss pitched a great
league Championships is game, but just came up
merely history now, but the short,” Lasorda continued.
Philadelphia Phillies slugger "We hope our turn comes
played the major role in Ita tomorrow "
making. “That homer didn't look
“The game means nothing like much in the first inning,
now except that guys will but it looked monumental by
write about it for tomorrow the fifth or sixth,” said
and we'll think about it for a Phillies Manager Paul
couple of hours before star- Owens "It was a classic
ting to think about the next game
one." Schmidt said Tuesday “I thought there would be
night after he homerod in the good pitching and not a lot of
first inning for the only run In hitting,” he said. "In fact, we
Philadelphia’s 14 victory were going to play for a run
over the Los Angeles early. It was a tough game
Dodgers. for the Dodgers to lose and a
“I remember we won the good game for us to win."
first game against the After Holland turned the
Dodgers in the 1977 Cham- Dodgers away in the eighth,
pionship Series. but they they had one final chance for
came back to win the next a comeback, when Derrel
three,” he said. "Of course, Thomas reached first as
being up by one game is more Schmidt booted his grounder
fun that being down by one. with two away in the bottom
"I know the Dodgers are a of the ninth. Thomas stole se-
great ball club, and there's cond. but Holland then got
going to be some hitting Greg Brock to ground out and
before this series is end it.
through”. Although Schmidt and
There was little hitting in many of the players on each
the first game of the best-of- side predicted heavy hitting
five series, which resumes in the games ahead, Owens
tonight in Dodger Stadium said, "With the pitchers the
with Los Angeles' Fernando two clubs have, there could
Valenzuela, 15-10 during the be more games like this com-
regular season, going against ing up.”
Philadelphia's John Denny, Game 2 could provide
194. another such pitchers’
Steve Carlton blanked the showcase, considering the
Dodgers on seven hits for 7 24 talents of the opposing
innings before giving way to hurlers.
ace reliever Al Holland with Valenzuela has not been as
the bases loaded and two consistent as in the past. in-
away in the bottom of the eluding his 1961 Cy Young and
eighth Holland got Mike Rookie of the Year campaign.
Marshall to fly out to right to but he has pitched brilliantly
end the Dodgers' strongest at times. Denny, with the
threat of the game. league's best record and
Jerry Reuss was the loser second-best earned run
in the pitchers' duel, allowing average (2.37), is the leading
five hits before going out for a candidate for this year's Cy
pinch-hitter in the bottom of Young Award,
the eighth. His performance One playoff veteran,
was flawed only by the Philadelphia second
fastball in the first inning that baseman Joe Morgan, sees
he threw in Schmidt's prefer- the second game as the poten-
red hitting area, low and tial clincher for the Phillies
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