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The Sun Monday. Oct. 28, 1985 C-G Cards exit by losing ugly, in many ways i i 4 The came only deteriorated t-; fcfei By GREG BOECK Gannett News Service KANSAS CITY Talk about your inglorious climaxes. For the St. Louis Cardinals, the seventh and decisive game of the World Series on Sunday night, won by the Kansas City Royals by the unsightly count of 11-0, wasn't just ugly, it was just plain gory.

It was embarrassing. It was sad. John Tudor was hammered out of the game in the third inning, putting his hand through a fan in frustration after exiting. Two innings later, in a self-destructive fifth, Whitey Herzog was thumbed out, and Joaquin Andu-jar was pysched out. The Cardinals not only blew a 3-1 lead in games, they blew their tempers.

The Cardinals not only lost the World Series, they lost their honor. Tito Landrum said afterwards he was still "proud" to be a Cardinal. But he didn't sound real convincing. This wasn't a night to be dressed in red. On the field, where the Royals embarrassed them.

Or off the field, where the Cardinals embarrassed themselves. "I'm still proud to be a Cardinal," said Landrum. "It's unfortunate in a sense, though, that all the pent-up emotions were released. If there is any blame on the Cardinals, I'm part of it." for the Cardinals after Tudor left. The fifth inning was the ugliest.

That was when the Royals scored six times. That was the inning Andujar and Herzog were thrown out in a messy scene of lost tempers. Andujar was primarily to blame. He came on in relief and, typically, argued a call by home plate umpire Don Denkinger. That led to Herzog's ejection when the manager joined in the complaints.

On the next pitch, after Denkinger called another ball Andujar thought was another strike, the Dominican with the famed temper charged the plate, yelling and pointing at Denkinger. This time he was thrown out. "I just try to do my best," said Andujar. At what? Arguing? "I'm not sorry for nothing. I was right.

That's why I was angry." Then he brought up the play that was still on all the Cardinals' minds from the night before Denkinger's controversial safe call of Jorge Orta that opened up Kansas City's two-run, ninth-inning comeback. "The key," complained Andujar, "was that play at first last night (Saturday)." Said Herzog: "We shouldn't have been out there tonight. We should have been home." AP wlrvphoto St. Louis pitcher Joaquin Andujar (center) is restrained by teammates after fifth-inning ejection. through a fan in the dugout, the wound later requiring several stitches.

"I could understand what happened if I was nervous, but I wasn't," he said, his hand wrapped in a towel. "I just couldn't un-derstand why I didn't throw strikes. Home runs and walks, you can't defend that. When I had to be there, I just wasn't." Their world, and World Series, started unraveling in the second and third innings when Tudor, their ace, gave up an uncharacteristic two-run home run to Darryl Motley, and even more uncharacteristically walked four batters, one with the bases loaded. His third-inning departure was his earliest exit of the year.

Frustrated, he put his pitching hand v' AP wiraphote St. Louis manager Whitey Herzog roars his disapproval as he is ejected by umpire Don Denkinger. iSeri Royals expect criticism to continue les World Series notebook By STEVE DILBECK Sun Sports Writer KANSAS CITY Historians may already have some big ideas. People who want to fit the Kansas City Royals into baseball history may be tempted to compare them to teams like the '52 Giants, the '69 Mets baseball's miracle teams. The Royals made history the first team to win the World Series after losing the first two games at home and fought off criticism all season along the way they were a mediocre team.

They know they may still hear it, too. "That's what people say, but you can't judge a team by what people say but by their performance," said Royals outfielder Lonnie Smith. "If we're not that good of a club, how come we won our division? "If we're not that good, how come we won the pennant? If we're not that good, how come we're world champions?" K.C. manager Dick Howser felt it was time to announce what he had suspected was true for some time. "I've always been a little hesitant before when I've been asked about our pitching staff, but I can say now that I think we have the best staff in baseball," he said.

The Royals' staff ERA in the Series was 1.89. Presdent Reagan called both managers after the game. Said Herzog: "I told him we kind of stunk up the place tonight but that maybe we could come out to Washington and play a couple of exhibitions next year. It's pretty good, to be beaten 11-0 and talk to the Prez." There was room in the Kansas City clubhouse for sympathy. Said catcher Jim Sundberg: "In a way, I feel bad for the Cardinals.

People didn't get to see what kind of good hitting and running club they really are." The Cardinals' sour pitcher, John Tudor, didn't exactly endear himself to the press during the Series. When he punched a metal fan in the dugout after being yanked in the third, an automatic pressbox expression sprang up: That's when the bleep hit the fan. An attempt to end a little confusion: After the Cards lost Game 6 Saturday, the nation's media reported that their streak for maintaining a lead going into the ninth this season was snapped at 88-0 or 89-0 or 91-0 (including here). The correct answer is 88. Herzog became the first manager since Billy Martin in 1976 with the Yankees to be ejected from a World Series game.

(Continued from C-l) -Ties. Six times they played with their season on the line. f- No one had ever won a World Series after losing -the first two games at home. It was almost as if they had to make their task well-nigh impossible just to get going. "Maybe we just enjoy doing it the hard way," said vK.C.

outfielder Lonnie Smith. "We seem to play better that way." They were certainly the better team Sunday. Bret Saberhagen took care of the pitching, the one el-iement that had given the Royals hope throughout. Saberhagen won his second Series game and the MVP award by shutting out the Cards on five hits. t' An 11-0 lead can make plenty of pitchers look good.

Of course, the Cardinals made a lot of pitchers super in this Series, hitting a pathetic .185 for the seven games an all-time Series low. "Their pitching is good," said St. Louis manager 7 Whitey Herzog, "but it can't be that good or they'd Shave won 135 games this year. But they're the champs; I tip my hat to them." tji Herzog had to do this from the clubhouse, not being around to take in the final out. The Cardinals out ugly.

Darryl Motley's two-run homer off Tudor in the jK. second started the Cards' demise. The Royals chased who had beaten them in Games 1 and 4, with "three runs in the third before scoring six runs off five pitchers in a wild fifth inning that saw the ejects tion of Herzog and, yes, Joaquin Andujar. "I didn't mind leaving," Herzog said. "I'd seen enough." i'4; Not the Royals.

Thy couldn't seem to get enough. J-'t "Once we got the momentum going and started 1 scoring the runs, we wanted to blow them away," Smith said. The Royals winning in a blowout was about as 4ikely as Andujar maintaining his composure. But 5 Ihe Royals collected 14 hits including four singles jTfrom George Brett just get my stroke and now the season is and had the game won so early could start enjoying it by the sixth inning. A final comeback was going to be unnecessary.

A ilowout was their last miracle. "I couldn't take any more close games," Brett said. "I don't think anyone here could." The postgame locker room was the usual cham- yagne-drenched madness, only magnified. This is a mostly young team and they were going to enjoy I' "every sweet moment of their unexpected championship. Their celebration was wilder and I longer and wetter than most.

Yes, you can have it all. Saberhagen sat at the postgame interview table and Motley poured champagne over his head. Said Saberhagen: "Having a baby two days ago, being in the World Series, winning it's been a storybook year for us. So many comeback situations, just storybook. "It seems like everything I've done this year has gone right.

I have the world at my feet. What more could I ask for?" Tudor could have asked for plenty more, beginning with a healthy hand. After getting pulled, a frustrated Tudor a pitcher who had won 20 of his last 21 games during the regular season hit an electric fan in the dugout and had to go to a hospital to have stitches placed in his left index finger. It was a night of big frustrations for the Cardinals, and Herzog feared early it was coming when Tudor started falling behind in the count to batter after batter. "There was no doubt in my mind Tudor couldn't do it tonight after the first two innings," Herzog said.

"He just couldn't get his pitches where he wanted." "From my point, it comes down to tonight's game and it turned out to be a mess," Tudor said. "It will be difficult to forget." Motley's two-run homer put Tudor behind. Tudor then walked Smith to lead off the third and knew he was in some serious trouble; he hadn't walked a lead-off hitter for 127 consecutive innings. One out later, Brett's half -swing produced a little chopper that neither Tudor nor third baseman Terry Pendleton could field. Wilson and Brett pulled off a double-steal and Tudor walked Frank White to load the bases and Jim Sundberg to force in a run.

Say good night, John. The six runs in the fifth were just so much extra frosting on the cake. Saberhagen was in control. The Royals, a team that hadn't done anything easy all year, finally did. "When we got out of St.

Louis alive and they didn't put us away there, I felt we had a good chance," Howser said. "Our players were always confident. "We just never stopped believing in ourselves no matter the situation. I can't tell you the times we have been counted out in the regular season, the playoffs and the World Series. No one on this team knew the meaning of the word quit.

Character is a word that I would apply to all our players." Cliches were being spread around in the Royals clubhouse like so much champagne. But this time, no one complained. "There were times when I thought it would take a miracle for us to win this year," Sundberg said. In the end, they didn't need one. They were champs.

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