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By ERNIE DUNBAR ,
Special to the Daily
DETROIT - Kansas City
wasted no time breaking out
the long ball yesterday, as the
Royals downed the Detroit Tig-
ers 7-4 before an opening day
crowd of 46,807 at Tiger Sta-
dium.
The Royals collected twelve
hits, including two home runs,
off starting and losing pitcher
Dave Roberts and relief pitcher
Fernando Arroyo. Detroit man-
aged eight hits from four Kan-
sas City hurlers, with starter!
Paul Splittorff collecting the
win.
KANSAS CITY'S Amos Otis
got the run production going
for the Royals, cracking a two
run homer in the first inning.
But the Tigers came right
back in their half of the first,
scoring two runs on a walk to
leadoff man Ron LeFlore, a
double by Tito Fuentes, and a
single by designated hitter
Rusty Staub.
The Royals took a one run
margin in the fourth when left
fielder Joe Zdebrand catcher
Buck Martinez hit back to baick
singles. Shortstop Fred Patek
scored Zdeb with a fielders
choice.
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PENING day crowd Tom Veryzer who collected two Brett and singles by McRae
in 44-degree weather singles in two trips to the plate,
f set the Tigers down ; while LeFlore added two sin-
in the third and gles and a walk.
ngs. Kansas City added an insur-
yberry put the Tigers ance run in the ninth, on a
good, as the Royal 1 walk by third baseman George
and Otis.
Willie Horton made his first
appearance in the field since
July 7, 1974 and the left fielder
collected a single in four trips
to the plate.
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RUSTY STAUB, the Tigers' designated-hitter, is shown here
cranking from second to third after he tagged up on Willie
Horton's fly ball to right field in the first inning of yesterday's
Tiger opener. Staub went one-for-four including one RBI in
the Tiger 7-4 loss to Kansas City.
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fifth inning. SC R CS E ES
Designated - hitter Hal Mc- -
Rae had reached base on one Major League Baseball
of three singles, while Otis was American League
on second after a double to left
center. Otis also collected two Kansas City 7, Detroit 4
singles to pace the Kansas New York 3, Milwaukee 0
City attack with four- hits and Cleveland 5, Boston 4 (11 Inn.)
three BI's.Texas 2, Baltimore 1 (10 inn.)
three RBI's. Toronto 9, Chicago 5
THE TIGERS made a brief National League
comeback in the seventh inn-
ing, when right fielder Ben Og- Los Angeles 5, San Francisco 1
live and catcher Milt May both NewLork 5,Chicago 6 j
walked off Splittorff. SinglesI
by pinch - hitter Phil Mankow- NBA
ski and LeFlore off relief pitch-
er Doug Bird scored the Tigers Cleveland 108, Denver 94
final runs. Indiana 114, New York Knicks 100
Detroit was led by shortstop Phoenix 121, Kansas City 110
NHL PLAYOFFS
N.Y. Islanders 2, Chicago 1
(N.Y. wins series 2-0)
Buffalo 7, Minnesota 1
(Buffalo wins series, 2-0)
Pittsburgh 6, Toronto 4
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By BOB WARREN
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Maria Olazagasti, and if Barb I feeling from the one-sided
"If we beat Ohio State Satur- Selden plays number two, sheI match."I
day, we will be the best team in should win there. . Atwood plans to use the Mich-
the Midwest region," a hyped "I am thinking about mov- igan State and Purdue matchesI
John Atwood proclaimed as his ing Ann Kercher to number as experimental matches with
Michigan Women's tennis team three to take some of the pres- his third doubles team of Jody'
disembarked for the Purdue In- sure off her," Atwood said. 'Strom and Jan Karzen.
vitational to be played today and "This match is too important
tomorrow. to have any girl in a position g"I want to have these two
"We illhaveto sart'girls working well together be-
We will have to play smart where she might feel uncom- cause they will face tough com-
tennis against Ohio State or fortable." it ill face toughnco
we'll lose,"' Atwood continued, petition against OSU. I plan tor
"You can take any one . Atwood feels that playing Ohio get a game of synchronized
Yhe enum to°nuber State last is the best thing that switching and unbalanced for-
the singles players on umber could happen to Michigan. mations to take advantages of
and mix them up and the team "Playing MSU and Purdue be- the girls' excellent forehand vol-
would not lose any quality in fore OSU will prepare us ade-------- - -
its play." quately for the Buckeyes. We
Atwood believes OSUJ has good need time to get used to the dif-
depth because its number two ferent surface and to get the
nlAvp~ Ann ri as ,'girls' confidence up," he said,j* ,
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player, Lnn wson, wa nbig
from the lineup in the fall and
the OSU girls still made the
match close.
The Michigan coach is con-
fident that Kathy Karzen will
defeat OSU's number one girl,
"The girls were uptight be-
fore Northwestern because of
what we had heard about its
team. However NU was not
what it was made up to be and
the girls obtained a relieving
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By The Associated Press homer in the ninth inning tied
The expansion Toronto Blue the score and then Cleveland
Jays started their first Ameri-. edged Boston 5-4 as Duane
can League season in the right Kuiper's slow bouncer scored
style yesterday, outslugging the Frank Duffy in the 11th. Duffy
-Chicago White Sox 9-5. had walked and raced to third
Rookies Doug Ault and Alvis on Rick Manning's single before
Woods stole the show with long Kuiper's chopper brought him
ball power for the Blue Jays. home.
Ault homered in each of his first John Stearns' two-run single
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pinch hit homer in his first
major league at bat.
ANOTHER ROOKIE, Texas'
infielder Bump Wills, was theG
hero of the Rangers' 2-1 deci-I
sion over the Baltimore Orioles.
His two-out single in the 10th9
inning drove home Juan Ben-
iquez with the winning run after
Beniquez had doubled.
Designated hitter Jim Wynn'
crashed a tape measure homer.
in his first American League
swing, helping the New York
Yankees defeat Milwaukee 3-0.
Reggie Jackson, making his
Yankee debut, drilled a pair of
singles and scored the other two'
New York runs on a suicideI
squeeze and a wild pitch.
BUDDY BELL'S two - run;,
carped a four-run sixth inning
rally that carried the New York
Mets to a 5-3 decision over the
Chicago Cubs. Tom Seaver,
starting the Mets' opener for
the 10th consecutive year, earn-
ed the victory with late help
from Skip Lockwood.
Keith Hernandez drove in four
rins with a double and a homer,
leading the St. Louis Cardinals
to a 12-6 romp over Pittsburgh.
Duffy Dyer homered for the
Pirates, who made three first
inning errors.
Don Sutton of Los Angeles
surrendered a first-pitch home
run to San Francisco's Gary
Thomasson and then limited the
Giants to only three more hits,
pitching the Dodgers to a 5-1
victory.
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