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section SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14. 1979 E) ST. PETERSBURG TIMES ,4 1-i Oirooles pound Poiraltes 9-6, take 3-1 Dead Seoiiniolles brush off BulDdogs i mm i By RAY HOLLIMAN SjMwiburflTjnijBfWrilr A pinch-hitting extravaganza, 9-C O'sKiko bursts from obscurity, 9-C By HUBERT MIZELL St. Pf fburq Tlmi Sport Editor ill 1 A 1 i Flanagan beat Pittsburgh 5-4 in Game One. "WE'RE GETTING beat so bad that my butt hurts," said Phil Garner, the tough little Pirate second baseman.

"Baltimore is the greatest team I have ever seen. They hit the ball hard and, when they don't, they still fall in for hits." Frustration is written across the skyline of this great industrial city as the Pirates keep outhitting Baltimore and losing. On Saturday, Pittsburgh had 17 hits, most ever by a losing team in a World Series game, to an even dozen for the Orioles but it was the Bucs lying on the canvas. The Birds did it this time to Kent Tekulve, the expert Pirate relief pitcher who is built like a filler for a ballpoint pen. Pittsburgh's fabled bullpen came to shreds as Don Robinson loaded the bases in the eighth inning, and then, when Tekulve came in, Baltimore unloaded on him.

Lowenstein doubled home two runs to whittle Pittsburgh's lead to 6-5. After Billy Smith was walked intentionally, Weaver sent on Crowley, the third successive pinch-batter, and he lined a two-run double to right for a 7-6 Oriole lead. The Bucs were against the ropes and bleeding. The last of the straws came when 6-foot-7 relief pitcher Tim Stoddard, a forward on North Carolina State's 1974 national collegiate basketball champion, singled for the first hit of his entire professional baseball career to drive in another run. The Birds got one more on Al Bumbry's forceout, the sixth score in the inning.

See SERIES, 9-C TALLAHASSEE Florida State coach Bobby Bowden gave an indication Saturday night just how far he has taken the school's football program during his four seasons. Who ever could have thought the Seminoles would beat a strong Southeastern Conference team, in this case, Mississippi State, 17-6, stretch their record to 6-0 with prospects on improving a No. 9 national ranking and have the head coach coming in fuming? Bowden talked at times as if FSU had just lost the game instead of winning impressively before a Doak Campbell Stadium record crowd of 48,701. "I can't believe we can't throw and catch," Bowden said, once again shaking his head in dismay over his offense's inability to match its explosiveness of the past two seasons. "I am very disappointed with our offense." WHAT BOWDEN DID like, as he has in all six FSU games this year, was the defense.

But even then he was "upset that they scored that touchdown." The Bulldogs averted a shutout, which would have been the Seminoles' second in a row, when Michael Had-dix went in from the two-yard line with 1:10 remaining in the game. Otherwise, despite several second-half forays by Mississippi State into Seminole territory, the game belonged to Florida State, which ranks No. 9 in the Associated Press poll and No. 10 in the United Press International ratings going into its next game against Louisiana State in two weeks. Yet, Bowden was correct in his assessment of the supposedly high-powered offense, which accounted for only 245 total yards, 125 rushing and 120 passing.

"People ask me all the time," said quarterback Jimmy Jordan, "but I just can't explain what's wrong. We have the best offensive line we've had, the same receivers and the same backs. But something seems to be missing. The defense is winning the games for us." See FSU, 8-C PITTSBURGH Had Earl Weaver gone to Las Vegas instead of coming to Pittsburgh, he would be worth millions right now. This crusty, little man with the orange bird on his cap is a blackjack player who keeps drawing 21.

He's a dice player who throws endless sevens. On a frosty Saturday in Steel City, the manager of the Baltimore Orioles was as smart as Einstein and as lucky as a wino with a bottle of chablis as tall as the World Trade Center. He's the Bountiful Bird Brain. The Orioles got colossal two-base rockets off the hitting sticks of well-traveled pinch-hittere John Lowens-tein and Terry Crowley in a six-run eighth inning to snatch the Three Rivers Stadium rug from beneath the Pittsburgh Pirates 9-6 and take a skyscraping 3-to-l lead in the World Series. One more will do it.

The Birds are as hot as the World Series weather is cold. It was 42 degrees when Saturday's game began; a miserable 37 when it ended. Baltimore will pitch left-hander Mike Flanagan (23-9), the major leagues' biggest winner, in an attempt to end the Series in Game Five today at 4:30 p.m. The last-hope pitcher for the Pirates will be 37-year-old veteran Jim Rooker, a lefty who wobbled through 1979 with a 4-7 record and 4.59 earned run average. 'i it AP Only break for the Pirates: Stargell's bat shatters in fifth inning.

Gators bit bottom, crushed 40-0 by Alabama It was definitely a whupping (Martz column), 9-C By BOB LeNOIR St. Pteriburg TirnM Su Wrllr GAINESVILLE Alabama's awesome, inexorable infantry stomped ferocious footprints all over Florida's flattened Gators during a 40-0 destruction drill Saturday afternoon at Florida Field. Some 64,522 hardy onlookers braved the grisly carnage. They watched in horrid wonder as Bear Bryant's unbeaten headhunters hammered out 435 yards on the ground against Charley Pell's winless woebegones. The Crimson Tide, second-ranked nationally, clung greedily to the ball for more than 38 minutes, stacking up 23 first downs.

"That's about as bad a whuppin' as I've had," reflected Pell in the wake of his fifth straight winless weekend since commencing autumnal hostilities. "I was outcoached totally." The Gators continued to plumb landmark depths of despair, the shutout being the first regular-season blank they've fired in 90 games. The last one was also against Alabama, a 38-zip smash in Florida's third game of 1971. The loss was also the worst walloping given a Florida team since a 49-7 Georgia romp later in that inglorious 71 campaign. And, dating back to two losses at the tail end of last season, Florida's seven straight winless outings represent a total not attained since the mid-19408.

There were few rays of promise for Pell, who continued to agonize over an offense that has scrapped for only two touchdowns all season. See GATORS, 8-C JeSC Jf! -if': Ay 1 i L- I 8t. Pstsnburg Tims JACKIE GREENE Alabama's Jeff Fagan strains toward goal. Gators stopped him just short, but Ogilvie scored on next attempt. Bucs try to rebound against 2-4 Saints Moral win: Stanford ties top-ranked USC WDAE- TV: 1 p.m., Ch.

13 Radio: 12:45 p.m., 1250 Probable lineups, 2-C NFL roundup, 12-C By MIKE TIERNEY St. Patfburg Timw Sfff Wrhf team," said linebacker Richard Wood, who suspects that some players were beginning to believe they were. "It brought us back to reality," said Cedric Brown, the Bucs' free safety. "We're back down to earth." True, but Tampa Bay (5-1) is still orbiting above the rest of its NFC Central cellmates. The oddsmakers expect the Bucs to maintain, if not expand, the distance between themselves and Chicago and Minnesota (both 3-3) today, and are spotting New Orleans (2-4) 6Vi points.

The 1 o'clock game became a sellout Thursday morning, just in the nick of time to lift the local television blackout The Bucs' one-game slide is peanuts compared to a losing streak of far more serious proportions that they broke against New Orleans. When Tampa Bay triumphed 33-19 at the Superdome in 1977, it was the franchise's first victory ever after 26 defeats. See BUCS. 9-C Comptld from AP. UP1 wir LOS ANGELES The scoreboard read 21-21 at the end Saturday, but for Stanford's determined Cardinals, it was a victory.

"It's obvious that USC is a great team, but we have a group of courageous young fellows who played their hearts out," Stanford coach Rod Dowhower said after the Turk Schonert-led Cardinals tied top-ranked Southern California 21-21. "We're a close-knit group of players and coaches, and we just never lost that feeling." USC (5-0-1, 2-0-1) was ahead 21-0 at the half, but quarterback Schonert threw two touchdown passes and late in the fourth quarter ran for another score to earn the deadlock for the unranked Cardinals (3-2-1, 1-0-1). "At halftime, we came in looking to gain some respect," said Dowhower, in his first year at the Stanford helm. "We didn't change anything at the half and, down 21-0, we were just drained. I just said, 'Play hard and don't give Southern Cal coach John Robinson was unhappy but not upset with the tie, saying, "It was obviously a great football game.

We won the first half; they won the second half. "We froze a little bit in the second half. That's a frightening thing about the (Stanford) passing game. They just seemed to catch the ball very well. "I felt we let it get away from us," Robinson continued.

"We had control of the game at halftime. We gave them some opportunities and they made a great comeback. I guess it's a shame nobody won. "It was a tie, but they're celebrating." Both teams missed field-goal attempts in the closing minute of the game. Stanford's Ken Naber was short on a 53-yard try with 43 seconds left and Southern cal'8 Eric Hipp had a 39-yard kick blocked after holder Jeff Fisher fumbled the snap as time ran out See USC.

8-C -TAMPA The Tampa Bay Buccaneers seek forgiveness today for sins they committed a week ago in Gotham City. And what better team against which to get back in good graces with their fans than one nicknamed the Saints? The Bucs fell from the unbeaten ranks or, more properly, rank, seeing as how they were the only one last Sunday by losing 17-14 to the then-winless Giants at New York. All of which indicated that drastic turn-arounds by a football squad are one thing, but here was a reversal that had gone a bit too far. "It Bhowed us we're not an unbeatable How the AP top 10 fared 1. Southern Cal (5-0-1) tied Stanford 21-21 1-C 2.

Alabama (5-0-0) beat Florida 40-0 1-C 3. Cl8homs (4-1-0) lost to Texas 16-7 6-C 4. Texas (4-0-0) beat Oklahoma 16-7 6-C 5. Nebraska (5-O-0) beat Kansas 42-0 5-C 6. Washington (5-O-0) played Ariz.

State, night game. 7. Houston (5-O-0) beat Texas 17-14 6-C 8. Ohio State (6-0-0) beat Indiana 47-6 5-C 9. FSU (6-0-01 beat Miss.

State 17-6 1-C 10. Notre Dame (4-1-0) beat Air Force 38-13 6-C.