The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, October 5, 1977-Page 9 NEW FACES CHANGE PLA YOFF OUTLOOK: 'Yankees face Royals in remate AMERICAN LEAGUE 350 or more at bats Carew, Min.. Bostock, Min. Singleton, Bal LeFlore, Det . Rivers, NY... Rice, Bos .... Bumbry, Bal. Fisk, Bos .... G.Brett, KC.. Cowens, KC.. AB 616 592 532 648 565 644 517 536 564 606 R 128 105 88 100 78 104 74 106 105 98 HHR RBI PCT 239 14 100 .388 199 14 90 .336 174 23 97 .327 211 16 57 .326 184 12 69 .326 206 39 114 .320 164 4 42 .317 168 26 102 .313 176 22 88 .312 189 23 112 .312 ByRICK MADDOCK Superficially,.the American League playoffs look like a repeat; of last year's. Yes, it's the Yankees (100-62) against the Royals (102-62), but there have been significant changes in several as- pects of the junior circuit's fall mini-classic. .New York has nine new faces on its playoff roster, while Kansas City has six. Pitchers Don Gullett and Mike Torrez plus outfielder Reggie Jackson are New York's key new pinstripers. Catcher Darrell Porter and pitcher Jim Colborn are the most important ad- ditions to the Royals' court. Gullett (144) led the American League in winning percent- age despite his usual injury-plagued season.- Torrez (17-3) had a streak of seven complete game victories through late July and early August. He claimed his fastball was most effective when he pitched every fourth day, and manager Billy Martin supported this philosophy by adjusting a five- man rotation around him. Jackson, baseball's most controversial player, began concentrat- ing solely on. baseball in August when Martin inserted him as a permanent fixture in the prestigious clean-up spot. The left-handed slugger responded by leading the Yanks in RBI's with 110, along with finfshing second in home runs with 32. Meanwhile, out in the Midwest, Catcher Darrell Porter erased the Royals' weakest spot. He hit .272 with 16.home runs and 60 RBI's. Buck Martinez and Bob Stinson shared the role last year, hitting .242 with 7 home runs and 59 RBI'ssbetween them. JIM COLBURN, who hurled a no-hitter earlier this year, strengthened the Royal staff. He finished 18-14 with a 3.62 ERA. However, the' right-handed Colburn doesn't figure, int n i- mediate playoff picture. .Manager Whitey Herzog believes the key to stopping New York's offensive attack in Yankee Stadium is by using left-handed hurlers. Herzog's reasons are the short right field porch (310 feet), and the number of southpaw power hitters the Yanks have. However, New York is 50-27 against lefties and 20-3 since August 1. Paul Splitorff received Herzog's opening game nod.Splitorff is 16- 6 with a 3.69 ERA. He won 15 of his last 17 decisions, including a 15-2 stretch between June and August. Against the Yankees this year, Splitorff is 2-1 with onie no-decision. Either Andy Hassler (9-6, 4.20) or Larry Gura (8,5, 3.13) will pitch in Game Two. One question arises: Is the left-handed strategy wor- th sitting Dennis Leonard on the bench until game three? Leonard (20-12) was one of only three 20-game winners inthe league and sported a 3.04 ERA. His walk-strike-out ratio was 79 to 244. Hassler was 1-3 versus the Yanks this season, while Leonard was 1-1. Gullett faces Splitorff in the opener, while lefty Ron Guidry (pronounced GIDree) will hurl in the second game. Guidry, the Yanks' most consistent pitcher, was 16-7 with a 2.82 ERA. Last year he was on the Yankee playoff roster sporting a 5.63 ERA in seven season appearances. Martin appears to be following the lefty strategy in "The House that Ruth built" but his only alternative is Torrez. Although Torrez has pitched well, Guidry and Gullett have been more effective lately. The overriding factor is that Guidry and Gullett each beat the Royals twice in two starts, this accounting for four of New York's five wins over Kansas City. The bullpen match up pits the league leading team in saves, the Royals, with 41 versus the league's leading ERA man in Sparky Lyle. (Officially Lyle cannot win the ERA leadership since he only threw 137 innings and the minimum is 162. However he is listed in newspaper statistics because of the amount of decisions he has.) Lyle was 13-5 with a 2.16 ERA and saved 25 games. Right-hander Dick Tidrow, who did some spot starting, will be the other arm in the bullpen. He was 11-4 with a 3.17 ERA and five games saved. Three Royals combined for 36 saves. Doug Bird, Mark Littell, and Gura (provided he doesn't start) will try to put out any New York fires. Both Bird and Littell are righties. Bird had the hot hand at the end of the season with 13 saves since August 1. Offensively. Kansas City is led by cleanup hitter Al Cowens. He blasted 23 home runs, knocked in 112 runs and hit .312. George Brett, who hit .444 in last year's playoffs, also hit .312 and had 22 home runs, mostly in a lead-off role. Hal McRae hit .298 with 21 home runs and 98 RBI's mostly as a designated hitter. Jonh Mayberry and Amos Otis hit 23 and 17 home runs respectively, but had sub par years in terms of hitting percentage. This year K.C. hit 146 homers, compared to 65 last year. Herzog will switch his lineup around and bat shortstop speedster Fred Patek (.262) at lead-off. He's batted eighth or ninth all year, but his league leading 53 steals encouraged the switch. Also, the. Royals successfully stole 13 out of 14 times against the Yanks this year. New York has a speedster of its own at lead-off with Mick- ey Rivers. He hit .326 for the year, and his hot streak in August was one of the main reasons for the Yankee surge. Martin has inserted American League home run runner- up Graig Nettles (.255, 37, 107) right behind Rivers. Nettles was the American League's August Player of the Month, while Rivers was runner up. In today's opener, scheduled to start at 3:15, Roy White will be benched and Lou Pinella (.333) will be in left field, while Cliff John- son (.29ยง) will be the designated hitter. White ended up at .268 as he slumped toward the end of the year. Both teams are solid defensively. Bucky Dent and Willie Ran- dolph, the Y&nks' keystone combo, along with Nettles at third are New York's defensive standouts. Center fielder Amos Otis and third baseman George Brett head K.C. 's defense. This year the Royals have the home field advantage. The initial two games are in the Bronx and the remaining three are on the ar- tificial turf in Royal Stadium. Between Boston, New York and Baltimore, the best from the East, they won four out of 16 games at the K.C. ballpark. Since June 7, the Royals are 40-7 at home. NATIONAL LEAGUE Parker, Pgh . Stennett, Pgh Tem'ton, StL. GFoster, Cin. Griffey, Cin .. Simmons, StL McBride, Phl Rose, Cin .... Hendrick, SD Luzinski, PhI. AB R 637 108 453 53 618 94 615 124 585 117 513 82 403 76 656 95 534 75 554 100 H HRRBI PCT 215 21 88 .338 152 5 51 .336 200 8 78 .324 197 52 149 .320. 186 12 58 .318 163 21 95 .318, 127 15 61 .315 204 9 64 .311 166 23 81 .311 171 39 130 .3091 Now Appearing: FAI T H BAND.' CHANCE 51 6 E. Liberty 994-5350 516 E. Liberty 994-5350 SPORTS OF THE DAILY Al signs to defend title By The Associated Press NEW YORK - Muhammad Ali will defend his world heavyweight title against the winner of the Leon Spinks-Alfio Righetti bout, Butch Lewis, vice president of Top Rank, Inc., said yesterday. - The bout between Spinks, the 1976 Olympic light heavyweight cham- pion from St. Louis, and Righotti, of Italy, will (be held sometime in November, Lewis said. All, who outpointed Earnie Shavers, in, a title bout Thursday night, will receive $3.5 million. Spinks or Ri- ghetti reportedly will get between $300,000 and $400,000, according to Lewis. . 'The bout will be in either Las Vegas, Nev., or Iran, said Lewis, and will be shown on home televisionin, the United States. No date was-set. Comeback Mac SAN FRANCISCO - First base- man Willie McCovey, released by two teams a year ago, has been named winner of the National League Comeback of the Year award. The 39-year-old McCovey, a 19- year veteran, hit .280, with 28 home runs and drove in 86 runs for the San Francisco Giants, leading the team in home runs and RBIs. McCovey set a new National League grand slam record, hitting two for a career total of 18, and moved into a tie for 12th on the all-time home run list with 493. He also went over the 2,000 career hit mark. * * * Food for thought MIAMI - Lou Saban, head foot- ball'coach at the University of Miami (Fla.), has disciplined players by withholding their allotted $12 for weekend meals, The Miami News reported yesterday. Coach Lou Saban would not con- firm or deny that he had disci- plined, some players by withhold- ing weekend meal money, but he said, "This is just one of the ways we use . . . I'm just saying money is perhaps one of the ways." "If you miss practice, they take- your weekend money," said senior middle guard Don Latimer. "They don't give it to you. That's bad, you know?" The football team eats at its own training table next to the cafeteria during the week. But the cafeteria is closed on weekends, and football players are give $12 to buy meals elsewhere. David Berst of the NCAA said he has never heard of college players being fined, but said no NCAA rule exists pertaining to fining of college athletes. However, Berst said NCAA rules do not allow money to oe wava. held from players if the money comes from their athletic scholar- ships. The News reported that the meal money apparently came from the players' scholarship funds. 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The committee's statement said the violations "resulted in the Uni- versity of Houston enjoying a distinct competitive advantage in recruit- Phils nip LA By The Associated Press LOS ANGELES -- Mike Schmidt's run-scoring single broke a tie in the nin- th inning last night and helped the Phil- adelphia Phillies to a 7-5 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in the first game of the National League cham- pionship playoffs. The Phillies survived the shock of a seventh-inning grand slam home run by the Dodgers' Ron Cey that tied the score 5-5, in taking a 1-0 lead in the best- of-five series. ment of a young man considered by many observers to be one of the top football prospects in the country." The university's most promising recruit this year was considered to be Darrell Shepard, a quarterback from Odessa, Tex. High School. Shepard had publicly said that he would sign with the University of Texas, but changed his mind just before the Southwest Conference signing date. The statement said the university would publicly reprimand head foot- ball coach Bill Yeoman as well as one of his assistants. The committee also placed Port- land State Ore. on one year's probation for allowing two ineligible players to compete. THE STORY OF CARL JUNG * A three part BBC documentary on his life and work Wednesday, Oct. 5-8:00 p.m. CANTERBURY HOUSE * * 218 N. DIVISION at Catherine 665-0606 FREE ADMISSION * lhc************************* * More than fifty percent of P the world is starving. Another si twenty percent, just plain h hungry. And yet, in the face of b starvation, they have hope. TI Hope that the rains will return an to the African Plain. Hope that tal the Asian rice crop will be bigger b this year. Hope that someone, anyone, with anything to offer will come to help them fight the battle for life. Someone in the Peace Corps. They'd like toR stand up for themselves,Q these prisoners of fate, > but they're just too weak l to stand up. 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