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B4 Staunton, Daily News Leader, Tuesday, October 20, 1987 Series format favors Twins Randy Bush was DH in Game 2. But at Busch Stadium, site of Tuesday night's Game 3, Twins starter Les Straker will have to go to the plate. "I'm looking forward to it," Straker said. "But I don't think I'll do much except bunt." Kelly said the Twins have geared their team toward having a DH in the lineup. He added that he wasn't looking forward to making a double-switch removing the pitcher for a pinch-hitter and, at the same time, replacing a position player to change the batting order so that the new pitcher wouldn't have to bat for as long as possible.

"In spring training, Ray Miller couldn't wait to make a double-switch," Kelly said, referring to the man he replaced as Twins manager late in the 1986 season. "I'm not so anxious." He said he wouldn't remove outfielders Dan Gladden, Kirby Puck-ett and Tom Brunansky; Hrbek; Gaetti; shortstop Greg Gagne, or his catcher. "Maybe I'll be able to fool around with my second baseman (Steve Lombardozzi) because I've got (Al) Newman on the bench, Kelly said. "But if I take a pitcher out, I'm probably just going to come back with another pitcher in that same spot. "Whitey's got all these similar kind of people in the outfield he can substitute for.

I'm just not a National League ballclub." ST. LOUIS (AP) Rather than complain about the best-of-seven format for the World Series, St. Louis Cardinals Manager Whitey Herzog should deal with it and worry about digging his team out of an 0-2 hole, the Minnesota Twins said Monday. Herzog said at Monday's off-day news conference that the American League West champion Twins could have won neither the National League East crown that his Cardinals captured nor the AL East. He said that despite winning only 85 regular-season games, the Twins have flourished in the postseason because they have two good starters in Frank Viola and Bert Blyleven and have the benefit of two off days in best-of-seven series.

"It's a good point," Minnesota's Roy Smalley said. "We're a little short on the mound for 162 games. That's why we won 85 instead of 95. But we're not short offensively and we're not short defensively. And anyone who has watched this club all year knows that we've played well in every game that we've perceived as being a big game.

"I think Whitey Herzog has a great baseball mind. But even if he's right we're here. Sorry." Tom Kelly, winding up his first full season as Twins manager, spent the AL playoffs deferring to the wisdom of Detroit Manager Sparky Anderson. And now he's doing the same in the World Series with Herzog. "What Whitey says that's probably true," Kelly said.

"But I'm not smart about those things. I don't care to bother myself to think about it. I'm thinking about winning a ballgame tomorrow." Kent Hrbek, the Twins' outspoken first baseman, at first tried to ignore Herzog's slap, saying: "If you're trying to get me to say something bad, I'm not going to. They have a good team. We haven't won (anything) yet." Later, however, he said: "It's too bad we're not in the National League." Added third baseman Gary Gaetti: "Would they win the American League East? Would they win in the American League at all?" Smalley said he didn't think the AL West is as strong from top to bottom as the AL East.

"But I'm not going to take somebody's word for it that the National League East is the best division in baseball," he said. "Right now, it doesn't look that way." The Twins, meanwhile, were gearing up for their first designated hitter-less game since the AL adopted the rule in 1973. In accordance with World Series rules, the DH was used in the AL team's home ballpark but pitchers must bat in the NL park. Don Baylor was the Twins' DH in Game 1 at the Metrodome; SMYRNA A J.vvv-V 1 AN 'EAR TERPRISING' EFFORT side the Metrodome may be one of the Jack Bogrand, left, and Dick Ericson set reasons. Sound experts said the noise deci- up business outside the Metrodome Sun- ble level reached a high of 118, about day, selling earplugs to fans headed to- equal to a jet aircraft taking off, when wards Game 2 of the World Series.

The Dan Gladden hit his fourth-inning grand Twins had the best home record in the slam homer in Game 1. American League and the noise level in- (AP Laserphoto) Chargers prosper during 'The Buck-Ninety Club' needs ST. LOUIS (AP) It's not that Minnesota catcher Tim Laudner is embarrassed by it, but he does wish his fan club would come up with another name. "The Buck-Ninety Club," is catchy, except when you're talking about your batting average. Laudner hit .191 during the regular season, triggering the fan club's name.

You'd never know it from his post-season production, though. In the American League playoffs against Detroit, Laudner had just one hit but it was a two-run single than put the Twins in front for keeps against Jack Morris in Game 2. In the World Series against St. Louis, he has two singles, a home run and four RBIs in the first two Minnesota victories. "I think hitting is contagious," Laudner said.

And the Twins have been hitting, setting SAN DIEGO (AP) No AFC team prospered more during the NFL players' strike than the San Diego Chargers. They won all three of their replacement games on the road and took the AFC West Division lead for the first time since 1981. "There was no question that with the (regulars) coming back and the strike being officially called off, this was our last hurrah together," Chargers replacement quarterback Rick Neuheisel said. "It's been a thrill to be a part of this." Neuheisel, who scored a first-half touchdown on an 8-yard scramble, was savoring San Diego's 23-17 victory Sunday over the Los Angeles Raiders, who suited up 13 regulars, including their starting defensive line. "I'm just looking at this as a nightmare," said veteran Raiders defensive lineman Howie Long, who crossed the picket line to play Sunday.

"It was obvious why we lost. We made a lot of mistakes and gave up a lot of big plays." The biggest came with 18 seconds remaining, when San Diego defensive back Elvis Patterson intercepted a Vince Evans pass and returned it 75 yards for a touchdown. Patterson was cut by the New York Giants this season and NFL strike draw energy from each other." The Chargers, the only replacement team to play all of its games on the road, won all three with fourth-quarter rallies. They came from a 9-0 deficit to beat Cincinnati, 10-9; rallied to beat Tampa Bay 17-13, and scored 16 fourth-quarter points to overtake the Raiders. "These guys didn't believe they were replacement players," San Diego Coach Al Saunders said.

"I call these players our mercenaries; they came from all walks of life and from all directions to win. I'd like to take them all home with me, except my wife doesn't have enough groceries." But Saunders also is a realist. He is preparing to dismantle the "Re-Chargers" and go with the best 45 players available. "We've already got our reward," said Greg Feasel, a replacement tackle for San Diego. "What we did in the last three weeks, these guys will never forget." Pd.

Pol. Advartlaamanl CHARLES CURRY ivi vwuiiij guieivisvr Augusta Cty. North River District i I r- 1 Farmer (4 School Board Member Industrial Representative If) Commitment Responsive, Concerned Representation 1 Authorized by Curry for Supervisor Commrtt joined the so-called "Re-Chargers" as a free agent. "You always dream of those," said Patterson, whose heroics gave the Chargers a 4-1 record, the best start for a San Diego team since 1981, when the Chargers won the AFC West with a 10-6 record. Backup quarterback Mike Kel-ley, who relieved Neuheisel in the third quarter, also played a key role in the Chargers' comeback from a 14-7 halftime deficit.

He threw a 7-yard touchdown pass to Al Williams and a 67-yard pass to Calvin Muhammad, setting up a 21-yard field goal by Jeff Gaffney. "Just another day at the office," said Kelley, who added that the replacements wanted to win their final game as a unit for themselves. "That's what made this so special. We did it for us. We were fighting for us." The Chargers' strike team also accomplished what the regulars never had done in five tries beat the Raiders at Los Angeles.

"It was so emotional out there; it seemed like those guys had been playing together for seven or eight years," said defensive lineman Terry Unrein, the only regular on San Diego's roster Sunday. "These guys have been through so much in the last three weeks, and they just seemed to pull together and 2 Closed Monday New York Giants have little room for error name change could not to dwell on it. If I had a bad at-bat, I tried to put it behind me and do what I could the next time up. I didn't come into this series with the idea to make up for a lost season. That wasn't my intention and I didn't want to put that kind of pressure on myself.

I just wanted to go up to the plate and relax and do whatever I could to help the club." In Game 1, his RBI single made the score 3-1 and set the stage for Dan Gladden's grand slam. In Game 2, he singled home two runs in the big fourth inning and accounted for the final run with a homer in the sixth. "It was exciting, very exciting to be able to hit a home run in the World Series," he said. The 3-for-6 gave Laudner a .500 World Series batting average. Will the Buck-Ninety fan club change its name, then? "I hope so," he said, "for my sake." ball team go down the drain or you're going to see one of the greatest comebacks of all time." Meanwhile, the Giants waived all of their replacement players Monday except offensive linemen Mike Black and Dan Morgan.

Par-cells said they were kept because of a shortage of linemen due to an injury to guard Chris Godfrey. Brookville leads Double-A golf AMHERST, Va. (AP) Ross Cash of James Monroe fired a par 71 to grab the individual lead and Brookville held the team lead after Monday's opening round of the Group AA golf tournament at Winton Country Club. Cash had a two-stroke advan tage over James Price of Giles in the 36-hole tournament that winds up Tuesday. Eric Grimes of Loudoun County was third at 75 followed by Travis Wolse of Abingdon at 76 and Mike King of George Wythe, Chris Cothran of Brookville and Jimmy Howard of King George, all at 78.

Rounding out the top 10 were Kevin George of Spotswood at 79 and Jeff Jorgenson of Cul-peper, Andrew Kube of Culpep-er, Greg Sayres of Marion and Kevin Burton of Poquoson, all at 80. Brookville's team score of 331 was one shot better than Gloucester. Following in the tightly-bunched chase for the team title were Culpeper, 333; Blacksburg, 335; defending champion Marion, 337; William Byrd, 339; Poquoson, 343; and Spotswood, 346. a record by becoming the first club to score five or more runs in seven consecutive postseason games. "We've spent all year picking each other up.

When one guy's not swinging well, the other guy picks him up," Laudner said. "We've been swinging pretty decent and I'm not trying to do anything different. I'm trying to go up to the plate and get a good pitch and put a pretty good swing on it. I'm tryimg to relax at the plate a little bit." How relaxed is he? Asked where he got his big bat from, Laudner deadpanned, "Louisville." The fact is, though, that Laudner struggled through a most difficult year at bat. He managed just 55 hits all season, although 16 were home runs.

His RBI total of 43 in 288 at-bats was good, but his .191 average was not. "It was frustrating," he said, "but I tried to do the best I promising. They are 0-5 and the only winless team in the NFL. New York was 0-2 before the 24-day NFL strike and the replacements lost all three games, including a 6-3 overtime defeat to Buffalo Sunday. "We'll take responsibilty for the first two, but not the last three," veteran linebacker Harry Carson said.

"We're not in a big hole. We're in a big canyon. You're either going to see a very good foot match play title appeared he would get the elusive title. The Scotsman increased his advantage to 2-up on the 22nd, but suddenly errors began creeping into his game and Woosnam rallied. First, the Welshman holed a 40-foot putt from off the green on the 26th hole, then tied the match two holes later when Lyle pulled a 6-i-ron into the trees.

After the next four holes were halved, Lyle hit his approach way past the green on the 33rd, then missed a 7-foot par putt on the way back. On the 34th, Lyle tied the match again with a birdie. The 35th was halved and a playoff seemed likely as the two walked to the 36th tee all even. Division III Top 20 MISSION, Kansas (AP) The top teams In the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III men's football poll, conducted by the Division III Football Committee with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Oct It, total points and last week's ranking. Record PU Pv I.

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What the Giants face is not Woosnam wins WENTWORTH, England (AP) Ian Woosnam became the first British holder of the World Match Play Golf Championship Monday, edging countryman Sandy Lyle by one hole in an exciting climax to the rain-delayed final. The 5-foot-4 Welshman, Europe's leading money winner this season, added $120,000 while ending Lyle's dream of winning the title for the first time in his fourth attempt. Torrential rain and hurricane-force winds early in the event had postponed the final from Sunday to Monday. It was worth the wait. Three times previously, Lyle had lost in the final of this event, but when he went to lunch 1-up after a birdie-birdie-eagle finish, it Division l-AA Top 20 MISSION.

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