The Michigan Daily-Thursday, October 5, 1978-Page 1 The playoffs are here! Royals rebound By The Associated Press KANSAS CITY-Freddie Patek, the smallest regular in the major leagues, walloped a two-run homer arid Kansas City rode the pitching of Larry Gura and two relievers to a 10-4 victory over the New York Yankees yesterday in the second game of the American League championship series. The victory tied the best-of-five playoff 1-1, with game 3 scheduled for Friday at Yankee Stadium. Patek's homer into the left field bleachers came during a three-run seventh inning, when Kansas City broke open the game. That uprising was punctuated by a near-fight on the field and confusion among players and umpires about the number of outs in the inning. THE ROYALS, who had seemed so flat Tuesday night when they lost the opening game of the series 7-1, came out flying in Game 2. They picked up a run off Figueroa in the first inning on singles by Brett and Amos Otis and a sacrifice fly by Porter. Then, in the second, they bunched five singles and an error by Yankee shor- tstop Bucky Dent for four runs. Hurdle opened with a single to center and Cowens followed with a hit to left. Patek bounced to Dent, who tried for a force at third. But the throw hit the sliding Hurdle in the back and flew past Nettles. Hurdle scored on the play, with Cowens reaching third and Patek going to second. THEN, FRANK WHITE'S single delivered two runs and finished Figueroa. After reliever Dick Tidrow retired Brett, Hal McRae drilled a hit- and-run single through shortstop as Dent vacated his position to cover second base. Otis, who had three hits for the game including an RBI single in the eighth, struck out, but Porter beat out a single to deep shortstop, scoring White for a 5-0 Kansas City lead. Gura protected that lead until the seventh, limiting the Yankees to four hits. But the lefthander, a 16-game win- ner during the regular season, tired and surrendered four more hits including Dent's two-run single. Marty Pattin came in and retired ThUrTnan Munson and Lou Piniella with two men on base, setting the stage for the bizarre bottom of the seventh. With Kansas City leading 5-2, the in- ning started routinely enough as Darrell Porter flied out to right field. Pete LaCock followed with a double off the right field wall, then Clint Hurdle sent a long drive that backed Reggie Jackson to the fence in right. JACKSON TRIED for a leaping cat- ch, but the ball fell for a triple, scoring LaCock. Willie Wilson ran for Hurdle, and with the Yankees' infield drawn in for a play at the plate, Al Cowens boun- ced to third baseman Graig Nettles. The throw to catcher Thurman Munson was in plenty of time, but Wilson barrelled into Munson, sending him flying. When Munson recovered, he began to move toward Wilson,, apparently angered by the collision. Players from both dugouts began moving slowly toward the two, awaiting Munson's next move. The catcher exchanged angry words with the runner but turned away as home plate umpire Rich Garcia positioned himself between the two. players in an effort to keep order. Frank White then grounded out for the third out of the inning, but nobody on the, field seemed to realize it. The nine Yankees in the field stayed at their positions and George Brett, the next Kansas city hitter, moved toward the batter's box. The umpires also main- tained their positions. The umpires realized the problem before a pitch was thrown to Brett. The Yankees knocked out Pattin in the eighth and picked up their last two runs on four singles, including Chris Chambliss' fourth of the game-tying a playoff series record. Al Hrabosky, ace of the Kansas City bullpen, surrendered two of the hits, but ended the rally by retiring pinch hitter Gary Thomasson on a grounder, leaving two Yankees stranded. Dodgers By The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA, - Steve Gar- vey slammed two home runs, tripled, drove in four runs and scored three times, powering the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 9-5 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies Wednesday night in the opening game of the -National League championship series. Former Eastern Michigan hurler Bob Welch collected the win in relief as he pitched one-hit baseball during his stint. THE DODGERS, after falling behind 1-0 in the second, rallied for four runs in the top of the third, three on a home run by Steve Garvey, to take a 4-1 lead. The Phillies scored in the second on a leadoff triple by Greg Luzinski and a sacrifice fly by Mike Schmidt, Bob Boone and Ted Sizemore followed with singles, but Hooton got out of the inning by striking out Christenson. Hooton struck out to start the Los Angeles third, but Davey Lopes doubled to the wall in left, took third when Bill Russell's routine grounder went through third baseman Schmidt for an error, and scored on Smith's single to center. Garvey then lined a 1-2 pitch over the left field fence for a three-run homer to send the Dodgers ahead 4-1. One of the runs was unearned. THE DODGERS increased their lead to 6-1 in the fourth when Rick Monday tripled off the top of the wall above the 408-foot sign in center field and Lopes ripped the first pitch over the left field win 1st wall for a two-run homer. In the Dodgers' fifth, Garvey triple to center with one out, knocking oa Christenson and bringing on relieve Warren Brusstar. Ron Cey singled right, scoring Garvey to make it 7- Dusty Baker hit into a double play end the inning. The Phillies rallied for three runs ii the fifth to close the gap to 7-4. Sizemore opened the inning with single. After pinch-hitter Orlando Gori zalez struck out, Bake McBride an< Larry Bowa singled to load the base. Garry Maddox ripped a single to righi scoring Sizemore and McBride, and,,a ter Luzinski popped out, Richie Hebne singled home Bowa. THAT WAS ALL for Hooten as rocki right-hander Bob Welch came in to 'ge Schmidt on a fly to center, ending th inning. The Dodgers made it 8-4 in the sibt: against the Phillies' third pitcher ofth night, righthander Rawly Eastwic when Steve Yeager slammed a 1-2 itc over the left field fence for Los Angele. third home run of the game. First sacker Garvey and the Phillie pinch hitter Jerry Martin traded hoe runs in the late innings to make th final, 9-5. YANKEE CATCHER Thurman Munson is plowed into by Royal pinch runner Willie Wilson who attempted to score on an infield grounder to third baseman Graig Nettles. Wilson was out on the play and almost got into a fight with Munson as a result of the collision. sports of the DAILY By The Associated Press Parker rumored to NY KANSAS CITY-Just as the New York Yankees finished denying reports they had completed a trade to acquire centerfielder Juan Beniques from the Texas Rangers, reports began circulating that a deal to send catcher Thur- man Munson to Pittsburgh for Dave Parker could be in the works. According to sources here at the American League playoffs, Beniquez and relief pitcher Paul Mirabella have been obtained from the Rangers in exchange for reserve outfielder Paul Blair, minor league third baseman Roy Staiger and minor league catcher Jerry Narron plus as much as $600,000. The trade, expected to be announced after the World Series, was repor- tedly confirmed by Brad Corbett, owner of the Rangers. Al Rosen, president of the Yanks, denied speaking about those players. Yanks owner George Steinbrenner admitted talking about them but said no deal had been com- pleted. He also noted that Commissioner Bowie Kuhn has put a $400,000 ceiling on exchanges of cash in trades. Meanwhile, other reports have the Yanks trying to get Parker, the Pirates' slugger, in exchange for Munson and other players including Sparky Lyle. Stingley moved FOXBORO, Mass.-Paralyzed wide receiver Darryl Stingley was moved yesterday from a California Hospital to a rehabilitation complex in Chicago, the New England Patriots reported. Stingley was injured during a National Football League exhibition game Aug. 12 in Oakland against the Raiders and suffered a neck injury that left him paralyzed from his shoulders down. He has not regained movement since his injury and was on the critical list several weeks ago with lung complications. But Fairbanaks said that Stingley, whose condition later stabilized, claims to have gained weight in recent days. 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