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'f 'I 9 I The Pittsburgh Press Section Sunday, October 14, 1984 4-2 victory ers charge after With two wins, but Trammell hits two homers to settle things Morris pitching to be it, fern. jr mmmmmmmmmmmmm mm msMmsmmmmmm pllIlllSSIlHIllBljlv HB DETROIT Just as the starting rotation of the San Diego Padres was about to pull what might be a World Series first and have this 81st renewal of the baseball championship best remembered more for how badly one group performed than for how well others did, along came Jack Morris to return sanity to the event Morris is so good, he finally got people to stop talking about how bad the Padres' pitching is. And that, considering how incredibly inept the Padres' starters have been, is not easy. What the Padres' starters who have a combined earned run average of 11.70 are to failure, Morris is to success. Morris blew down the Padres for the second time, pitching Detroit to a.

4-2 victory yesterday that gave the Tigers a 3-1 lead in the best-of-seven Series. BOB SMIZIK It might end today in Game Five at Tiger Stadium and if it does there will be no man more responsible for Detroit's first World Championship since 1968 than right-hander Morris, 29, who had won more games the past five years than any major leaguer except Steve Carlton. Morris was breathtakingly superb a crowd of 52,130 as he shut down the sick Padres batting order on five hits. He did not walk a batter and struck out four. He retired 13 consecutive Padres from the third inning through the seventh and was.

in control throughout the game. Morris' two complete games he won the opener, 3-2 are the only two a pitcher has thrown in the 27 World Series games Sparky Anderson, a.k.a. Captain Hook, has managed with the Reds and Tigers. "Morris is a superb pitcher," San Diego Manager Dick Williams said. "We didn't even have as many op- Ertunities as we had the other day.

throws hard, he has a good breaking ball, a good forkball and he keeps it down. What more can you ask for?" "When his forkball is working like it was today," Anderson said, "he's untouchable and I know we're not going to get beat" Early on, the Padres weren't ready to believe that Morris might have been in control, but the Padres were getting scattered hits and that was enough to inspire hope. After falling behind, 2-0 in the first inning on Alan TrammeU's home run; the Padres got a second-inning homer from Terry Kennedy. That was followed by a Kurt Bevacqua double, which was wasted, and a third-inning single by Tony Gwynn, which, also was wasted. If the Padres didn't own Morris, those hits gave reason to believe he might later be had.

Please see Smizlk. D14 By Bob Hertzel The Pittsburgh Press DETROIT Alan Trammell was in a daze, running around the bases by rote. All he really wanted to do was get all the way around, get back where he belonged, back to the dugout, to his teammates, to the men with whom he could share his emotions. The Detroit Tigers' shortstop had just hit his second two-run homer of the game off Eric Show and suddenly the Tigers knew they only had to win one more game to become world champions. Two homers and four RBI by Trammell and a five-hit complete game by Jack Morris were responsible for Detroit's 4-2 victory over the San Diego Padres yesterday in the World Series.

The Tigers have a 3-1 Series lead and will send Dan Petry out to pitch what they hope will be the clincher today. Mark Thurmond will be the starting pitcher for the Padres. Padres have hope, page D14 There was a certain irony in Trammell being the Detroit hero, because he grew up on San Diego beaches and spent much of his youth in the stadium where the Padres play. He was a soft drink vendor for Chargers and San Diego State football games but couldn't hold a similar job at Padres games in those expansion years because the crowds were not big enough. So he had to sneak in to watch them play.

"It wasn't hard," he said, describing how he would arrive early to find an open gate. He'd walk in and hide, then re-appear when the crowd began to filter in. He always had a general admission ticket stub in his wallet, which he'd pull out to appease any security guard. But general-admission seats weren't close enough to his hero, Nate Colbert, so he'd sneak down to the box seats. He'd get caught sent back to the cheap seats.

He still loves San Diego. He has friends and family there. He comes from a broken home and was raised by his mother. His father was auoted in the newspaper the other ay saying he was rooting for the Padres. "No comment," Trammell said when he was asked about that.

Tigers Manager Sparky Anderson didn't hold anything back when he was talking about Trammell, whose bat was given to the Hall of Fame after the game. He called him the best, maybe the best ever. And that's from the man who managed Dave Conception in Cincinnati. "I was hoping so much that Alan Trammell would get a chance to play in a World Series. He is the finest shortstop in all of baseball.

If he plays 10 more years without injury well, I'll leave that decision up to you." Trammell almost blushes when he hears Anderson gush like that. Please see Series. D14 iiaiKiiiiii United Press International acknowledges cheers Geared C1 '4Ws, i .) Batting hero Alan Trammell rides around Tiger Stadium in a golf cart and up Pooped out 'Bama, hot weather wilt Penn State, 6-0 5-1 WVU rolls, 20-10, eager for BC rematch By Steve Halvonik By Mike DeCourcy Worn down South Carolina subs torpedo Pitt, 45-21 By Dan Donovan The Pittsburgh Press COLUMBIA, S.C. South Carolina had some fire ants on offense, too, and they scurried past Pitt, 45-21, before 73,100 fans at Williams-Brice Stadium yesterday. The Panthers may be bigger and stronger, but South Carolina was quicker, bringing players by the droves off the bench to run over, under and around the Panthers.

The Gamecocks, known for their enthusiastic Fire Ants on defense, are undefeated and on a six-game winning streak for the first time in school history. They looked very much like a Top 10 team while dropping Pitt's record to 1-5. The Gamecocks'substituted freely, using 65 players before there were six minutes left and the game was decided. But nowhere was the substitution more successful than at quarterback. The Panthers intercepted starter Allen Mitchell two times in the first half as Mitchell completed only three of nine passes for 27 yards.

Please see Pitt. D9 The Pittsburgh Press MORGANTOWN, W.Va. The preliminaries are over. Let the main bout begin. In the home corner, wearing blue-and-yellow uniforms and owning a 5-1 record including three technical knockouts are the West Virginia Mountaineers, who tuned up with a 20-10 victory over Syracuse yesterday.

In the visitors' corner, decked in maroon and gold, undefeated ranked No. 4 in the nation, is Boston College. It won't be a kid-gloves affair when BC visits Mountaineer Field Saturday for their nationally televised rumble. The Mountaineers still are smarting from the snub they got last year when they beat Boston College, 27-17, but were denied the Lambert Trophy, emblematic of football supremacy in the East. Revenge not to mention the Lambert Trophy and a major bowl invitation this season might be the prize.

"This place will be unbelievable next weekend at 10 till 4 (kick Please see West Virginia. D9 The Pittsburgh Press TUSCALOOSA, Ala. The heat burned through the Alabama campus all week. It was oppressive, sometimes brutal. It was another difficult week for the Crimson Tide football team and its coach, Ray Perkins.

Fans called for Perkins' resignation. Reporters chronicled his Eroblems. Tide players tried to escape the label "chumps" attached a Birmingham columnist. Alabama did not feel the heat yesterday afternoon at Bryant-Denny Stadium. Perkins, always icy, stood in his long-sleeved shirt and tie and watched.

Penn State sweltered. It was only 82 degrees, but the sun and humidity, the 60,010 fans, two Van Tiffin field goals and a miserable performance by Lions Juarterback Doug Strang ganged up on Penn State to produce a 6-0 Jabama victory. It was the first time since the 1972 Sugar Bowl against Oklahoma that Penn State (4-2) was shut out. It was the fourth shutout loss Please see Penn State, D7 t. 4k A i jm ft fft rfltij.