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GB Game Two: Orioles 4, Phi Hies 1 Thursday, October 13,1983 sc4o, A4A. 11.1,6 4Wklity, A4t, 0.1f, "10 40 Game at a glance Lenn Sakata waits, and waits, and waits term Sakata Is all dressed up with nothing to do. The reserve Orioles infielder sits In the dugout, just Itching to see action in a World Series game for the first time. "I try to stay ready," said Sakata, who hasn't played since the final day of the regular season, "but with every passing day the chances of me hitting or doing something good are diminishing. I want to do something.

Even Palmer (pitcher Jim Palmer) got to pinch run. All I do Is watch that shows how bad I'm going." Sakata batted .254 during the season, starting 36 games at second base while appearing in 66 contests. lie hit .333 in September, with 11 hits in 33 at bats. Meanwhile, second baseman Rich Dauer is I4or-21 in the post-season. "I can understand what they're doing," Sakata said, "but that doesn't make it any easier.

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I t. want to do something. Even Palmer (pitcher Jim 1 Palmer) got to pinch run. All I do is watch that shows how bad I'm going." Sakata batted .254 dur- 1 ing the season, starting 36 games at second base Of ItiN 4., -0 VII, 1 while appearing In 66 contests. Ile hit .333 in Sep- i 1 tember, with II hits in 33 at bats.

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The last time it happened, in the third game in 1981, the starters were Dave Righetti of the New York Yankees and Fernando Valenzuela of the Los Angeles Dodgers. third game in 1981, the starters were Dave Righetti Last night's starting matchup between Mike Boddicker of the Orioles and Charles Hudson of the Phillies marked only the fifth time in the 80-year history of the World Series that two rookies op- posed each other. The last time it happened, in the -I ke he Ip he tti nkt, ,411. OW 4 ay. ,4 dk c.

Associated PresS i x4k ,..04 404 0 ak, 4 At 0 4 4 00444 0 Wo 44 Orioles right fielder Dan Ford hits the ground after being beaned by Phi reliever Willie Hernandez in the fifth inning last night. Quote unquote After beaning, Ford worried about his career BEN WALKER Assoscia tKS Press I1 1 1 1 thing by it. I'm not that kind of pitcher." Ford later singled in the seventh inning off reliever Larry Andersen. The last World Series beaning came in 1981. when New York Yankees reliever Rich Gossage threw a fast-ball that hit Los Angeles' Ron Cey in the head.

Cey had to leave the game. Hernandez said Ford probably expected a screwball and thought the ball would stay flat. "I was trying to jam him and rise my fastball in on him. He was crowding the plate and I was trying to take advantage of that." glasses broken and his helmet sent flying by the pitch, as players on both teams gathered around him. "I didn't know what to do or what to think.

It happened so fast," Ford said. "You Just don't want your career to end, and that's happened to some guys who have been hit in the head." Ford was helped to his feet and he remained in the game. As he walked to first base, he waved to the crowd and nodded to Hernandez that he was OK. "When he started to talk, I felt relieved," Hernandez said. "When he went to first base, I just gave him a thumbs-up signal to let him know I didn't mean any BALTIMORE At first, Philadelphia reliever Willie Hernandez did not know what to think.

Neither did Baltimore's Dan Ford. Hernandez hit Ford in the helmet with a fastball in Game Two of the World Series last night, and the outfielder immediately fell to the ground. "It was the first time in my career that I ever hit anybody in the head," Hernandez said. "I rushed down there to see how he was. I was scared." Ford remained on the ground for a few minutes, his I Philadelphia manager Paul Owens, who Is also the team's general manager, on his nearly three decades of building Phil lies teams: "I know what I've done.

My record stands for itself. I think when I go out, I'll go as the best general manager Philadelphia ever had." Pete Rose, 42, on the prospects of facing 21- year-old Orioles pitcher Storm Davis sometime during the Series: "Twenty-one, that all he is? Well, I guess I ought to be twice as smart then." Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken on his own baseball career: "I like to think I could've made it as a pitcher. But I wanted to play every day. If you play every day and don't make it, you can try pitching. But if you pitch and don't make it, you can't go back to trying to play every day." Baltimore manager Joe Altobelli, on the toDI-I-or-not-to-DH debate: "The time to go get a hot dog and a beer is when the pitcher comes to bat.

I think if you go check the concession stands, you'll find that business picks up when the pitcher comes Is at 3 1 vn as ou go lot I Les 'How old is Orioles rookie Mike Boddicker makes believers of the Phil lies RON RAPOPORT The Chicago Son-Times Around the league The Chicago Cubs have asked the New York Yankees for permission to talk to Don Zimmer about joining the club as third base coach. Zimmer, 52, and new Cubs manager Jim Frey were high school buddies Baltimore pitcher Jim Palmer is the latest to become a believer in the off-season strength and flexibility program of Philadelphia's Steve Carlton. He will work under the tutelage of Carlton guru Gus Hoefling. rk er gh Is )n i's of 44,.. :01 toA1090' -Rrel V', :444 4 I 4 :.61 i 1 ..6:, A Let it be Lowenstein "Everything he throws, it looks like you can hit it," said Morgan, who had an infield single in four at-bats against Boddicker.

"1 don't think he fooled me, but 1 swung at some pitches in the dirt." "I didn't see a fastball to hit all night," said Schmidt, the National League's home run leader, who was 0-for-4. "He threw a big sweeping curve and one that doesn't break as sharply. He threw one down and in and one up under my chin. That's how 1 used to pitch in Little League. 1 loved to see them duck." Morgan had watched with inter.

est Boddicker's 14-strikeout performance against the Chicago White Sox last week and, as much as he might hate to admit it considering the end result, he didn't think Boddicker pitched as well last night. "The other night 1 watched him pitch, he had great control," Morgan said. "Tonight, 1 don't think he had as great control. But neither did we. 1 was attacking the ball instead of making him pitch a strike.

We talked about him, but until you stand in and face him, you don't realize what he really does out there." "We swung at some bad pitches," agreed Matthews, "but the pitches we didn't swing at were called strikes. Rick Dempsey swung at a bad pitch and got a double." Like the White Sox before them, the Phi llies marveled less at Boddicker's speed than at his ability to change it. "He has four pitches and four different varieties of those pitches," said Phi pitching coach Claude Osteen. "I thought he might need a computer out there to figure out which of his pitches he would throw." "I thought John Denny threw a changeup curve," said Rose, "but his is a lot slower than that." "You don't have to pitch 95 miles an hour to win ballgames," said Schmidt. "I couldn't swing the bat any better than I swung it and I went 0-for-4.

I thought home run against him a couple of times up there one time I swung at one of his curves and tried to hit it to Philadelphia and I got a fly ball and a ground ball in the hole." BALTIMORE After 2 hours and 26 minutes of starvation rations last night, the Philadelphia Phi needed something to fill their stomachs. Pete Rose was in the middle of the room with a plate of food on his lap. Joe Morgan was in the corner with a bottle of imported beer in his hand. Mike Schmidt was up against the wall with a can of the local brew. Among them all, there was only one recurring topic of conversation.

"How old is he?" Rose demanded. "Twenty-six," he was told. "I knew he couldn't be no kid." Mike Boddicker, the rookie Orioles pitcher, had just turned the veteran Phi Hies hitters into spectators in Game Two of the World Series. He allowed only three measly singles and one unearned run as the Orioles won, 4-1, and evened the Series at a game apiece. As far as the Phi 'lies hitters were concerned, frustration was the name of the game.

9 ii The Baltimore pitching staff is so overpowering, hitters rarely get any notice. But John Lowenstein was invited to the interview room last night after his 3-for-4 outing against the Lowenstein won't get a chance for a repeat performance tomorrow night when the Series resumes at Philadelphia. He won't be playing and that's fine with him. "I don't want to play," he said. "Carlton is pitching." Steve Carlton goes tomorrow night against Mike Flanagan.

But on Saturday, Phil lies manager Paul Owens plans to come back with first-game winner John Denny. Baltimore's Saturday pitcher hasn't been decided. Compiled from Miami News wire services and other sources ig, Associated Press Boddicker makes the game's first pitch. STOOGES, from 1B SERIES, from 18 4o 4. v''''.

1 i 4: i 1 .1 i P- 'I -11'1 :2: ti t. 4- I -'6, A 4, 40 rs t4! i 1 .1: 1 1.: i. I. home run: "Sometimes things snowball offensively. It worked out well for us." "This was my most memorable Series game," Lowenstein said.

"The grand slam home run I hit off Goose Gossage to beat the Yankees earlier this year was no doubt my most memorable moment of the season." Lowenstein, a left-handed hitter platooned with righty Gary Roenicke, will be on the bench when the Orioles face Steve Carlton tomorrow night in Philadelphia. Lowenstein, a free spirit, said he had no desire to face Carlton and no desire to be an everyday player at age 36. "I think I'm a good platoon player," he said, "because over the course of the years I have been able to adjust psychologically and mechanically. I don't think this would be good for a young kid, but I think once you mature, you're able to accept it." Right fielder Dan Ford escaped serious injury when he was struck on the bill of his helmet by a Willie Hernandez fastball in the fifth inning. "I was fortunate," Ford said.

"It scared me more than it hurt me. When I found out I was not in as much pain as I thought, I wanted to stay in the game." blast it over the center-field fence. That rattled Hudson, who promptly gave up a line-drive single to Rich Dauer. Todd Cruz then made a great play, dropping a bunt down the third-base line. Schmidt made an uncanny recovery, but as he went to snap off his throw charging towards the plate, he had to hold it, re-cock for two steps, and was too late.

That put runners at first and second, none out, and Dempsey at the plate. Without the DH. Boddicker, who had two professional at-bats in his life, was on deck, so Dempsey had to swing away. "In the regular season, I'd have bunted," admitted Altobelli. Dempsey lined a ball into the right-field corner for the second run and made it into second when Lefebvre slipped making his throw.

By then, Hudson was fully shaken, fell behind Boddicker, 2 and 1, and the former Big Ten All-Star third baseman hit a line drive to Gary Matthews that made it 3-1 and brought Willie Hernandez into the game. Before Hernandez finished the inning, he hushed the ballpark by hitting Disco Danny Ford in the bill of his cap with a fastball (not totally surprising, since his 10-day rest was the longest Hernandez has had since he came to the Phi Is). The Wheeze Kids showed their age in the seventh, as Morgan misplayed a grounder and Rose couldn't reach Ripken's routine grounder for an insurance run that probably wasn't needed. The need isn't Boddicker's. It is the Orioles' for Boddicker.

pressure; there isn't any on this team," Boddicker insisted. "That's not our personality. 1 just came to the park the same way 1 always come to the park." And, in the biggest game of his life, pitched the same game he's been pitching since he began saving the Orioles' staff. His reaction to the run demonstrated his unflappable nature. Morgan slapped his bouncer to the hole, which Cal Ripken couldn't field cleanly.

Morgan was going as if it were 1975 again, outrunning Boddicker's big leg kick and high outside curveball and sliding in under Dempsey's high throw for a stolen base. After Pete Rose uncharacteristically got his bunt down to the wrong (left) side of the mound and failed to advance Little Joe, Schmidt hit a grounder to deep short. Morgan advanced to third easily, but Murray dropped Ripken's long, hard throw. So, when Lefebvre was their toughest hitter for me" Boddicker) sent Al Bumbry to the warning track, it was 1-0 Phi Ily. "Worried? Nah," said a smiling Boddicker.

"Guys who throw straight over the top with good fastballs, we usually hit." They did. Hudson, who a year ago August was pitching against the Winston-Salem Red Sox for Peninsula, had overpowered Baltimore for four innings, allowing only a one-out, second-inning double by Lowenstein. But in the fifth, Hudson opened the inning by falling behind Lowenstein, 2 and O. "I was looking for the heater there," said Lowenstein, and he got one that ran out over the plate far enough for him to extend his arms and three-run fifth inning stand up. In two post-season games, Boddicker hasn't allowed an earned run, bringing his streak without an earned run to 24 innings.

He has struck out 20 in the two games, 12 of them left-handed batters a reminder of what his "foshball" has done, since, as pitching coach Ray Miller says, "the reason he kept being sent back was that he needed to find a pitch for left-handed batters." All of which is nothing new: Since the All-Star break, he is 14-4, 1.95. Last night, matched up with fire-balling Charles Hudson in what is the definitive contrast between the pitching philosophies of the two organizations, he went through the first nine batters without even one swing that Boddicker himself would have been proud of. Then, after Joe Morgan followed his Tuesday power by getting an infield hit, stealing second and eventually scoring on an Eddie Murray error and a Joe Lefebvre fly ball, Boddicker sailed through the final five innings with only two opposite-field singles and a bloop single by Bo Diaz. "I really had far better location tonight than I had against the White Sox last week," said Boddicker. "I had a better curveball (particuarly sidearm) against Chicago, but tonight I had a better fastball, located it better and, with more left-handers, got to throw my forkball more.

So, I think that helped me keep them off balance." Ask Mike Schmidt, past whom Boddicker threw a high fastball for a strikeout and the final out of the game. "I don't know why people keep talking about Associated Press Rick Dempsey lines a double to right field that scored the winning run for the Orioles. DONN; from 1 El plan would be accepted, so I put this one on the table. Gulfstream was willing to take the risk of rising competition in that period from Garden State, for example, and Monmouth and Louisiana Downs opening earlier. a.

What was your reaction when Brunetti rejected the plan? A. Pragmatic. Apparently he felt he could do better. That's why we couldn't get together. The whole thing is a contradicton.

Based on performance, if any track is entitled to the middle dates every winter it is Gulf stream. about the same percentage. Gulfstream does not produce super performances with the end dates. As for the second part of the question, the lac-tor is not significant. Gulfstream gets some stables Hialeah does not.

We produce more purses (which are based on mutuel play). I think our racing is better we have more graded stakes than Hialeah. Q. What bothers you most about the present situation vis-a-vis Hialeah? A. That's easy.

If Gulfstream Park had performed as Hialeah has during the past decade, while Hialeah performed as well as Gulfstream bad, this track (Gulfstream) would be buried in oblivion. There seems to be a double standard and it's exasperating and frustrating. And disheartening. a. A double standard applied by whom? A.

I'm referring primarily to the governmental sector. Gulfstream has performed extremely well but never is afforded a little privilege for that success. Hialeah, on the other hand, was given the middle dates two years in a row in 1975 and 1976. Yet, when you base it on the stated criteria for awarding dates, Cul (stream would be entitled to the middle dates every year. We've tried to forge an equitable settlement and have not been successful even when Gullstream stands to lose the most.

A. I don't know what the value is; I've never tried to find out. Sell out? Absolutely not. For the past three or four years the big majority of our profits, if not all of them, have gone back into the track for improvements. It would be tragic to give up Gullstream Park; it has become the constant factor in Florida winter racing.

Tropical Park does not exist any more; for a time it appeared that Hialeah was going under. But Gulfstream has steadily grown stronger. a. If you had to make a choice between Sunday racing and a minors bill, which would it be? A. A very tough question.

Both are essential to the future of racing in this state. I couldn't make a choice. One (Sunday racing) has a big short-term impact; the minors bill has a long range effect. a. How do you get along with Brunetti? A.

We talk. Our relationship is one of cautiously exploring options and solutions. We know each other pretty well by now. It's never a personal thing. John represents himself; when I talk I'm representing the family interests and the stockholders.

I never focus on personality, I'm only interested in what's good for Gultstream. I think John's approach is the same what's good for his track, and he's not influenced by personalities either. Would you offer the same, or a similar plan next year In the leg. Islature? A. i don't know.

Certainly I will continue to try and find some agreement and get something accomplished. I'm not sure what it will be. I have more reservations about the end dates now than I did last spring, but we'll Just have to wait and see what develops. fa. At the end, you also suggested a plan whereby Gullstrcam and Hialeah would rotate under the new system (shorter middle season, longer end season) for four years and see how it worked.

What happened to that Idea? A. At that point the legislature was in sort of a frenzy; they seemed to want something labeled "permanent" and nothing less. The plan didn't get very far. Maybe the basic problem was trying to accomplish too much in one swoop. The dates problem has been with us for a very long time.

a. What is your solution to raising purses and keeping Florida competitors with other states in attracting better horses? A. simulcasting and O.T.B. are very important. The longer it takes Florida to get started in this area the more of a jump other states will get on us.

What can happen is that by the time we get the legal right to negotiate with Nevada, for example, they can be tied up with other states for five years. Our market must be expanded if we're going to raise purses. a. Do you buy two of Brunetti's arguments: that Hialeah must have the middle dates to survive; and that some stables will not come to Florida If Hialeah does not have the middle dates? A. Absolutely not.

There is no basis in fact to the first one, certainly not a financial one. For prestige, perhaps. But it simply is not true that Hialeah needs the middle dates to survive financially. Gulfstream, remember, outhandles Hialeah in the middle dates and in the end dates by Just a. Gultstream's property has an enormous value on the real estate market If you ever decided to sell it.

Do you know what that value is? Is It conceivable that you would sell?.