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Sports TIMES MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, ADVOCATE 1980 D-1 Fouts breaks his own passing mark, again Staff Photo by Jim Baird TIGHT END KELLEN WINSLOW HAD A BIG GAME Castoff Unser thrust into Series spotlight By JOHN NELSON AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) It now comes down to Steve Carlton and the rest of the Philadelphia Phillies' "Comeback Gang." And for that, the Phils can be thankful to a small man with a big bat. Del Unser, a castoff two years ago when the Phillies latched onto him, performed nobly once again yesterday, sending Philadelphia home with a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven game World Series. The sixth game of the Series will be played tomorrow night (at 5:10 p.m. on the West Coast on Channel 39) with a seventh game, if necessary, Wednesday night.

The Phillies will start the left-hander Carlton, baseball's premier pitcher, tomorrow night against Kansas City Royals right-hander Rich Gale. Carlton may or may not share the spotlight when he has a chance to wrap up the Phillies' first World Series title, but yesterday, the light of victory shone directly on Unser. Unser stroked a pinch double, his third hit in six at-bats during the Series, to tie the game at 3-3 in the ninth inning, then scored the winning run for a 4-3 victory that backed the Royals into a deep, dark corner. "Having to go into Philly and win two, the odds are against you," Unser said, "It's a good feeling going one game up and having Lefty pitching the next game and Rufus (Dick Ruthven) if he's needed, but we'll stick with our one-game-at-a-time philosophy." The Phillies, who have trailed at one time or another in all five Series games, came into the ninth down, 3-2. They faced Kansas City's ace reliever, Dan Quisenberry.

Mike Schmidt, who hit a two-run homer in the fourth, led off with an infield single on a drive that Royals third baseman George Brett dove to his left and knocked down. Phils manager Dallas Green then sent Unser in Associated Press Photo to pinch hit for Lonnie Smith. That got a lefty hitter against a righty pitcher, HAPPY MAN Del Unser of the Phillies applauded his work after a pinch but moreover, it brought to bat a man the who repeatedly has rallied the Phildouble got Philadelphia even. Unser later scored the winning run as lies to victory this year. Phillies won Game Five of the World Series, 4-3, and took a 3-2 advantage in Unser became Phillie in 1978 when a By DON NORCROSS T-A Sports Writer SAN DIEGO So engrossing was yesterday's Chargers York Giants football game that at halftime, with the Chargers comfortably ahead by 21 points, the pr press box televisions were switched to the World Series.

By then, Dan Fouts had already passed for 253 yards, and the only thing in doubt was whether or not the bearded quarterback would break his own team record for most yards passing in a game. He did, and a whole host of other records were also smashed, much like the Chargers smashed the hapless Giants, 44-7, at San Diego Stadium. Among the marks set were these: Fouts completed 26 of 41 passes for 444 yards and three touchdowns, breaking his record of 388 yards set just last week at Oakland. Fouts' yardage total fell three yards shy of the '80 NFL high. The Jets' Richard Todd passed for 447 yards earlier this season in a losing cause.

Charlie Joiner caught 10 passes, the most in his 12-year career, and the most by a Charger since Gary Garrison caught that many against Denver in 1972. Joiner's 10 catches covered 171 yards, the most by a Charger since Garrison accounted for 188 yards in 1969. The Chargers had three receivers, Joiner, John Jefferson and Kellen Winslow, catch passes for more than 100 yards, only the second time that feat has been accomplished in the NFL since 1968. The Green Bay Packers did the same last week against Tampa Bay. The Chargers' 44-7 victory represented their largest winning point spread since a 45-6 verdict over Buffalo on Dec.

14, 1969. Except for those minor details, it was a real close game. While the Chargers' fifth victory of the season may not have kept the 50,397 fans on the edge of their seats, it satisfied the players quite nicely. After all, this team had lost two in a row and its AFC West lead has slipped to one game. Jefferson, the Chargers' contortionwho doubles as the world's greatest catcher of footballs, may have best summed up the game's importance.

"Had we come out here and not made a good showing, I think it would have affected the team," said J.J. About the only thing this game could have affected was New York's inferiority complex. It probably made it worse. The Giants are now 1-6, having lost six straight, the last five by a combined 126 points. The play that sent the San Diegans ahead 14-0 in the second period best typified the afternoon.

Fouts dropped back to pass from the New York 39. The Giants blitzed, but in their haste forgot to assign someone to Jefferson. J.J. was all alone at about the 15, and when he pulled in Fouts' pass the only thing separating him from the end zone was a warm Santa Ana breeze. "I was so wide open it was wild," smiled Jefferson.

"I thought about real Expos. Seven teams drafted him, but none made an offer. Philadelphia decided it could use a 33-year-old journeyman outfielder and acquired him in the re- draft. Unser has more than proven his worth. He stroked a pinch single that keyed a rally in the eighth inning and tied Game Five of the National League playoffs with Houston.

In the next inning, he doubled and scored the run that got Philadelphia here. Unser's pinch double in the eighth inning of the second game of the World Series started a winning, fourrun rally and caused Schmidt to comment: "He's unreal." When Quisenberry got his sinker just a hair too high on a sunny but cool Phillies have Carlton ready to pitch in Game Six games. he was released outright by the Mont- Aikens. McRae hit into a fielder's earned runs on 10 hits. Clippers play a home game.

'Series of Flakes' draws McGraw, Quisenberry erry rushing the ball along. I didn't see the ball when I turned and said, 'Throw it, throw Jefferson had a chance to put this game away, but then the Giants finally discovered a way to stop the gifted receiver the sun. The Chargers were on the Giants' 11 late in the second period when Fouts lofted a perfect pass over Jefferson's shoulder in the end zone. Jefferson lost the ball in the sun and then a rare phenomenon occurred, a ball hit Jefferson in the hands that he didn't catch. "I had the guy beat good, too," complained J.J.

"It was an automatic touchdown. I looked up and didn't see nothing but the sun. I moved my hands hoping they would touch No matter. The very next play Fouts sent Jefferson to the right side, with half the Giants' secondary following him, leaving Joiner wide open on the left side for the Chargers' third touchdown. That's when the score went to 21-0 and CBS lost most of its San Diego viewers to the World Series.

The Chargers made things mildly interesting in the third quarter when punter Rick Partridge entered the game for only the second time. Bob Rush gave Partridge a high snap that he was unable to handle. Partridge then gave it his best Chuck imitation as he tried to pick up the ball but just couldn't. Finally, he fell on it at the two. Two plays later, the Giants scored.

So alarmed were the Chargers by Please see Fouts, D-3 choice, erasing Aikens and sending White to third. That brought up Amos Otis, who had homered earlier. "I tried to pitch a 1-2-3 inning," McGraw said, "but as I got deeper and deeper into trouble, I began to pitch more carefully. When Otis came up, I tried to make perfect pitches. I didn't care if I walked Otis walked on a 3-1 delivery from McGraw, bringing up Jose Cardenal, who came in as a pinch hitter two innings earlier.

McGraw got to 1-2 on Cardenal, then struck him out with what he calls his Cutty Sark fastball "because it sails." "I felt a little guilty on the mound," McGraw said. "My wife helped me relax a little last night, and she kept me up a little late. I felt very fortunate today that things came out the way they did." Philadelphia took a 2-0 lead in the fourth on Schmidt's two-run homer, a monstrous shot off Royals left-hander Larry Gura that cleared the fence in right-center over the 410-foot sign. The Royals bounced back with a run in the fifth. U.L.

Washington singled, and Willie Wilson followed with an infield hit. White sacrificed the runners ahead, and Washington scored on a grounder by Brett, who had just one hit in five trips. Otis led off the Royals sixth with a solo homer, his third of the Series and 11th hit, two short of the World Series record. Clint Hurdle and Darrell Porter followed with singles, chasing Bystrom, and Washington drove in Hurdle with a sacrifice fly to make it 3-2 Kansas City. "We very easily could have been 0- for-3 in Kansas City," Schmidt said.

"As I said yesterday, I felt if we went back to Philadelphia with an advantage, it would put us in a good position. "Now, we have their backs against the wall. They have to win two in our place, and it's not going to be easy," Schmidt said. The Royals not only face a must situation tomorrow night, they face it against Carlton, a 24-game winner during the season. Carlton is making his second Series start.

He went eight innings to win the second game. Still, he yielded three fellow with a head of curly, rusty hair and a mustache. "I'm a lot more outgoing when I lose than when I win," he confessed. "Winning inhibits me." He pitches like a softballer, his submarine delivery almost scraping his knuckles against the ground. He said he perfected his art by studying the Pirates' Kent Tekulve.

"I don't get many breaks from the umps," he says. "They think underhanders are freaks." He added that he always pitched underhand but "came out of the closet in college (Orange Coast and Laverne in California.) When one writer described him as a left-hander caught in a right-hander's TRUCK ROBINSON Helps bury Clippers New-look Suns rout Clippers SAN DIEGO (AP) The Phoenix Suns are hoping to contend for the National Basketball Association championship this season. With that in mind, they've changed their style a bit. So far, so good. The Suns made it four wins in five outings last night with an easy 102-84 victory over the San Diego Clippers.

Their new look was evident and successful. Forward Truck Robinson had 29 points and 10 rebounds for the Suns. Jeff Cook, a reserve center last year but a starting forward now, scored only six points but pulled down 13 rebounds for Phoenix. Guard Dennis Johnson, who came to Phoenix in a trade for Paul Westphal, had 20 points, and Walter Davis, moved from forward to guard, added 16 points for the winners. Phoenix coach John MacLeod points to Robinson as a key man for his team.

"I think Truck is a winner," said MacLeod. "He's come out and asserted himself offensively and we're going to him more. He's the captain and he's leading by example. "We didn't try to do anything special tonight, just tried to play good defense. San Diego played hard and did a lot of things well.

They're going to get better. Their effort and execution is very good." "The biggest adjustment for me is more playing time," said Robinson. "I get 40 minutes now. I think that really is the big key. Also, my fingers are okay." The Clippers lost despite an outstanding performance by rookie forward Michael Brooks, the team's No.

1 draft choice last June. Brooks, who starred at LaSalle, had 28 points and 14 rebounds before fouling out with 39 seconds remaining. Brooks didn't get much help, though. Joe Bryant had 14 points for San Diego, all but two of them in the first quarter. Phil Smith, the Clippers' leading scorer, had just nine points, all of them in the second half.

"We didn't play defense as well as we could have but I wasn't dissatisfied," said first-year San Diego coach Paul Silas, whose team is now 1-3. "You have to re-evaluate your thinking. Do the players know what you're doing?" The Suns went ahead to stay on a jump shot by Robinson with 2:08 left in the first quarter. It was 55-46 at halftime and the Clippers weren't closer than eight points after that. The victory was the first ever for the Suns over the Clippers at the San Diego Sports Arena.

Phoenix had lost its previous five games to the Clippers here. Sunday night's crowd of 4,022 was the smallest ever to watch the Sunday afternoon, Unser lashed it toward Royals first baseman Willie Aikens. The ball took a wicked hop and bounced over Aikens' glove, scoring Schmidt all the way from first as Unser motored into second. Moreland sacrificed Unser to third. After Garry Maddox grounded out, Manny Trillo lashed a line drive that caromed off Quisenberry's glove and bounced toward third for an infield single that scored Unser.

"I've been lucky in this Series," Unser said. "The ball bounced over Aikens' glove by two or three inches, maybe. He didn't have much time to react." Rookie Marty Bystrom started for the Phillies, but when 42,369 Royals fans saw their last swing of the World Series, it was Tug McGraw standing on the mound. McGraw went three innings, giving up just one hit, a double to Hal McRae. He struck out five, including George Brett twice, but walked four.

The Royals mounted one last desperate attempt to win in the ninth. Frank White worked McGraw for a leadoff walk. McGraw used just three pitches to strike out Brett for the second time in three innings, then walked By WILL GRIMSLEY KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) The 1980 World Series may go into the history books as "The Series of Flakes" decided not by pitched screwballs but by screwball pitchers. Mark up one for Tug McGraw, the effervescent, gregarious left-hander of the Philadelphia Phillies.

But don't close the book on the Kansas City Royals' Dan Quisenberry, standing in the wings with a submarine whip in his arm and a quip on his lips. "I don't think in any sense that I am in a humor contest with Quisenberry," said McGraw after saving a 4-3 victory that gave the Phillies a 3-2 lead going home for the final two games. His victim was Quisenberry, who has won one and lost two with one save. He beat McGraw in Game 4. "I have never met the guy," Tug said of his relief pitching rival.

"But I would like to. He sounds very interesting. "I have a lot of respect for him. I think he has his emotions under better control than I do. "Players consider me an entertainer, a crazy guy.

I started out that way. It is too late to change." If there is anything more exciting in a ball game than watching McGraw and Quisenberry come off the bench in the late innings to put out a developing brush fire as baseball people describe a rally it is listening to them detail their peaks and perils. Both have nicknames for their pitches. Both enjoy post-game repartee with the media, sprinkling their comments with far-out remarks. Sometimes they are funnier than Bob Hope.

McGraw came into yesterday's game in the seventh inning, struck out George Brett twice and Willie Aikens once, and then, with the bases loaded on walks, threw a slider past Jose Cardenal for the final out. "I got Cardenal with my Cutty Sark," he explained. "It sails. I got Brett the second time with my John Jameson it was a fast, straight ball that's the way I like my Irish whisky." In the ninth inning, while his wife Phyllis was near hysterics in the stands, Hal McRae caught one of Tug's specials on the button and propelled it to deep leftfield. It was foul by only a few feet.

The crowd of 42,369 and millions on TV saw Tug pat his heart with his right hand. "My heart was really pumping," he said. "If it had been fair, I would have been ready for one of those CPR rescue units they've been advertising (on the scoreboard) all week." McGraw, 36, who coined the "You Gotta Believe" rallying cry in the New York Mets' pennant drive in 1973, is big, long-haired guy who admits he loves attention. Quisenberry, 26, who tied the Yankees' Goose Gossage with 33 saves the past season, is a quiet, unimposing body, he struck back with, "That guy is a Harlequin Romances writer in a sports writer's body." He said when he signed with the Royals as a free agent in 1975 "all they gave me was three bags of chew and a coach ticket to Waterloo on a prop plane. I spilled coffee on my pants and they haven't paid me for that." The puckish Royal reliever added that he had no grandiose ideas about some day being rich and owning a palace.

"I am allergic to moats," he said. "I can't afford alligators. I don't like drawbridges and those dungeons are always a waste.".