The Michigan Daily'-Wednesday, October 19,1977-Pae 9
Bronx Bombers capture Series
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tying a World Series record set by
Babe Ruth 51 years ago, and powered
the New York Yankees to baseball's
World Championship last night with
an 8-4 victory over the Los Angeles
Dodgers.
Jackson, who played a major role
in the season-long soap opera of the
Yankees, brought the story to a fairy.
tale conclusion with a two-run homer
in the fourth, a two-run homer in the
fifth and a solo shot into the center
field bleachers in the eighth. Each
homer came on the first pitch.
It was the first time in World Series
history anyone had hit three consecu-
MVP Jackson ties Ruth record with 3 HR's
tive home runs. Chris Chambliss also
ripped a two-run, homer and Mike
Torrez rode the long-ball attack to an
easy, nine-hit victory as the Yankees
nailed down their 21st world title and
their first in 15 years.
The homers were the third, fourth
and fifth of the World Series for
Jackson - the Yankees' leading
hitter with a .450 average - as the
Yankees won the Series four games
to two. Jackson's five home runs.
were the most ever by one plaver inma
World Series.
The first homer erased a 3-2
Dodgers lead and the second put the
Yanks on top 7-3. The first two were
virtually identical, low line drives
into the lower right field stands, but
the third was a towering drive that
bounced into an unoccupied area of
the bleachers and had the capacity
crowd of 56,407 roaring its approval.
Jackson came out of the dugout
and doffed his cap to set off yet
another round of cheering by the
nearly-hysterical crowd.
They were the kind of sudden,
dramatic blows Yankees owner
George Steinbrenner had in mind last
November when he signed Jackson
for $2.9 million, making him the most
expensive commodity in baseball's
first free agent auction.
After the Dodgers had scored two
Reggie show
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unearned runs in the first inning,
Jackson opened the Yankees second
by walking on four pitches. Cham-
bliss followed with his home run into
the right field bleachers, tying the
score.
But Reggie Smith restored the Los
Angeles lead with a third-inning
homer. It was his third of the Series
and the ninth for the Dodgers, tying
the National League record set by the
Brooklyn Dodgers in 1955 and tied by
Milwaukee in 1957.
That made it 3-2 Dodgers, but
Jackson took over at that point, with
an awesome power show that re-
wrote the World Series record books,
His first homer followed a leadoff
single by Munson in the fourth
inning. The hit extended Munson's
World Series hitting streak to 10
straight games - all four last year
against Cincinnati and six this Octo-
ber.
In the fifth, Jackson connected
again, tagging the first pitch with two
out after Mickey Rivers had opened
with a single and was forced on an
attempted sacrifice.
Still, Jackson wasn't through. In
the eighth, leading off, he hit a
towering blast well back into .the
center field bleachers, far beyond :the
417-foot sign, an area of the stadium
rarely reached.
Stirred by Jackson's heroics end
by the Yankee victory, fans poured
onto the field asp Torrez got pinch
hitter Lee Lacy on a pop to the mound
for the final out.
Jackson barreled through the
crowd, knocking over several fans en
route to the dugout. Fans grabbed
Willie Randolph's hat and bumlped
other Yankees players as police.
moved in to try and keep order.
When it was over, the fans claimired
the field like a sea of bodies sweeping,
over the stadium that was modern-
ized at a cost of $100 million just two
years ago.
It was the first World Champion-
ship in the new stadium and Jack-
son's power display made it one of
the most memorable in the storied
history of the Yankees.
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YANKEE CHRIS CHAMBLISS puts everything he has into a Burt Hooton flutterball and parks it in the rightfield
stands, tying the game at 2-2: Reggie Jackson later drilled three of his own homers in carrying the Yanks to an 8-4
victory over the Dodgers, clinching the World Series for the Yanks for the first time since 1963.
SIMPSON, LANIER LEAD ROUT
Pistons
By ERNIE DONDAR
and DAVE RENBARGER
'Special to The Daily
DETROIT-With the friendly New
Jersey Nets providing the opposition,
and a friendly Cobo Arena crowd on
hand for the occasion, the Detroit
Pistons opened their 1977-78 NBA
season with an easy 110-93 victory over
the former New Yorkers.
Even the Pistons themselves acted
like friends, suggesting that they have
forgotten last year's season of
bickering and second-guessing coach
Herb Brown.
BROWN ELECTED to starit the new
season with a lineup featuring the tall
backcourt tandem .of Chris Ford and
Ralph Simpson. From the opening tipoff,
Simpson's play made Brown look like a
genius. t'neztormer All-American from
Michigan State, scored 7 of Detroit's
first 13 points and went on to grab
scoring honors with 23.
"Whether I started or not, I had to
come in to play," said Simpson. "Herb's
been on us with me all along."
"I decided to start Ralph because he
has to get comfortable with this
ballclub," explained Brown.
The Pistons opened up a quick 27-14
advantage after the first stanza to put
the game on ice early. The Nets con-
tributed by shooting an ice-cold 37 per
cent in the first half and were faced
with a 57-36 halftime deficit.
BUT THE BIGGEST happening in
the first half came along late in the first
quarter when Brown released popular
forward Marvin Barnes from the con-
fines of thie bench. To the absolute
delight of the 4,778 fans, some of whom
had decorated the arena with banners
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Piston leader Bob Lanier had little
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racked up 22 points, grabbed 8 reboun-
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Former Wolverine Wayman Britt
radle his NBA-debut, entering with 1:48
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basket, recorded one steal, and com-
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