1982 World Series
1982 World Series
Baltimore
vs. San Francisco
Game 1, at Candlestick Park: Palmer vs. Martin
O'S JUMP ON TOP, WIN SEESAW AFFAIR
Giants' Minton Blows Save In Late Loss
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 13 (AP) -- The Baltimore Orioles captured the opening game of the World Series by pounding San Francisco reliever Greg Minton for three runs in 1/3 of an inning in a 6-5 victory at Candlestick Park. A three-run Orioles' eighth followed an identical uprising by the Giants in the bottom of the seventh, overturning a two-run deficit.
The three-run eighth capped the scoring in a seesaw affair. The Giants drew first blood in the bottom of the second inning off Baltimore starter Jim Palmer. Darrell Evans drew a one-out walk and after Jeff Leonard flied to right, Milt May drew a base on balls of his own. Johnnie LeMaster followed with a single to right, scoring Evans.
The Orioles took the lead in the fourth. Al Bumbry led the frame off with a single off San Francisco starter Renie Martin. John Lowenstein followed by grounding a single into right field, advancing Bumbry to second. Martin then balked the runners into scoring position. With the infield back, Cal Ripken rolled out to Joe Morgan at second, scoring Bumbry and moving Lowenstein to third. Eddie Murray's grounder to short plated Lowenstein, giving the Orioles a 2-1 lead.
San Francisco tied the game in the sixth courtesy of a bad throw. Jack Clark led off the inning with a double into the left field corner. Reggie Smith followed with a fly to Bumbry in medium-deep center field. Clark tagged and attempted to advance to third. Bumbry's throw hit Clark and bounded to the edge of the stands, allowing Clark to score, making it 2-2.
Baltimore regained the one-run advantage in the seventh. Martin walked Gary Roenicke leading off the inning. Rich Dauer struck out but Lenn Sakata went the other way, singling to right, advancing Roenicke to third. With the Giants' infield in double play depth, Rick Dempsey hit a little dribbler toward third. Evans was able to throw Dempsey out at first, but Roenicke scored on the infield roller, putting the Orioles back on top 3-2.
But the Giants roared back against Palmer in the bottom of the seventh, seemingly taking command of the game. May grounded a double past Murray, down the right field line, to lead off the inning. LeMaster followed with a perfect sacrifice bunt, advancing the tying run to third. Dave Bergman was called upon to pinch hit for Martin and he ripped a single between first and second, squaring the game at three. Chili Davis followed with a base on balls, putting runners at first and second with one out. Joe Morgan delivered what appeared to be the coup de grace, crushing a triple to the wall in right-center, scoring Bergman and Davis and putting the Giants ahead 5-3. It hardly seemed important at the time when San Francisco failed to score Morgan from third. With the infield in, Palmer induced Clark to ground out to second and then retired Smith on a ground ball to third.
Up by two, the Giants went for the knockout blow by calling on Greg Minton to close out the game. The right-hander finished second in the National League in saves during the regular season, but he immediately ran into trouble in the eighth inning. Bumbry started things off with an opposite field single and moved to second on Lowenstein's base hit to right. Ripken flied out, but Murray singled sharply through the box, scoring Bumbry, and cutting the lead to one in the process, while moving Lowenstein to second. Roenicke then tied the game with a single of his own, deep into the left-center field gap, scoring Lowenstein and chasing Murray to third. Dauer then followed with a base hit of his own, this one to center field. Murray walked home and Roenicke stopped at second, making it 6-5 Orioles. Just like that, the Giants' lead was gone. Terry Crowley was announced as a pinch hitter for Lenn Sakata, and Gary Lavelle came on to pitch for the Giants. Lavelle retired Benny Ayala--pinch hitting in turn for Crowley--and Rick Dempsey, but the horse had bolted the barn.
Palmer remained in to pitch a scoreless eighth and Lavelle set the Orioles down in order in the top of the ninth. With Bergman, Davis and Morgan due in the ninth, Baltimore brought in left-hander Tippy Martinez to start the frame and he struck out pinch hitter Jim Wohlford and retired Davis on a weak pop fly to Murray at first. Morgan, however, brought the potential winning run to the plate by lacing a double into the right-center field gap. With Clark at the plate, representing that winning run, the Orioles chose to stick with Martinez. The powerful right fielder was the San Francisco's top home run hitter this season, but Martinez jammed him with a slider, inducing a soft ground ball to Murray for the game's final out.
The Giants will look to even the Series tomorrow at Candlestick when they send Bill Laskey to the mound to oppose Dennis Martinez of the Orioles.
10/13/1982, Bal82-SF82, Candlestick Park
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB DP
1982 Orioles 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 3 0 6 9 2 5 0
1982 Giants 0 1 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 5 8 0 7 0
Orioles AB R H BI AVG Giants AB R H BI AVG
Bumbry cf 5 2 3 0 .600 Davis cf 4 1 0 0 .000
Lowenstein lf 4 2 2 0 .500 Morgan 2b 5 0 3 2 .600
Singleton ph 1 0 0 0 .000 Clark rf 5 1 1 0 .200
Martinez,T p 0 0 0 0 .000 Smith 1b 4 0 0 0 .000
Ripken ss 4 0 0 1 .000 Minton p 0 0 0 0 .000
Murray 1b 4 1 1 2 .250 Lavelle p 0 0 0 0 .000
Roenicke rf 2 1 1 1 .500 Evans 3b 3 1 0 0 .000
Dauer 3b 4 0 1 1 .250 Leonard lf 4 0 0 0 .000
Sakata 2b 3 0 1 0 .333 May c 3 1 2 0 .667
Crowley ph 0 0 0 0 .000 LeMaster ss 2 0 1 1 .500
Ayala ph 1 0 0 0 .000 Summers ph 1 0 0 0 .000
Gulliver 3b 0 0 0 0 .000 Sularz ss 0 0 0 0 .000
Dempsey c 4 0 0 1 .000 Martin p 2 0 0 0 .000
Palmer p 3 0 0 0 .000 Bergman ph 1 1 1 1 1.000
Ford ph 1 0 0 0 .000 Wohlford ph 1 0 0 0 .000
36 6 9 6 35 5 8 4
Orioles INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Palmer W 1-0 8.0 7 5 4 3 3 112 66 4.50
Martinez,T S 1 1.0 1 0 0 0 1 10 8 0.00
9.0 8 5 4 3 4 122 74
Giants INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Martin 7.0 4 3 3 2 4 94 56 3.86
Minton BS 1, L 0-1 0.1 5 3 3 0 0 17 12 81.00
Lavelle 1.2 0 0 0 0 2 18 11 0.00
9.0 9 6 6 2 6 129 79
Bal: Crowley batted for Sakata in the 8th
Ayala batted for Crowley in the 8th
Dauer moved to 2b in the 8th
Gulliver inserted at 3b in the 8th
Ford batted for Palmer in the 9th
Singleton batted for Lowenstein in the 9th
Roenicke moved to lf in the 9th
Ford moved to rf in the 9th
SF : Bergman batted for Martin in the 7th
Bergman moved to 1b in the 8th
Summers batted for LeMaster in the 8th
Sularz inserted at ss in the 9th
Wohlford batted for Bergman in the 9th
E-Bumbry, Sakata. 2B-Morgan, Clark, May. 3B-Morgan. SB-Bumbry(1).
K-Lowenstein, Roenicke, Dauer, Sakata, Ayala, Ford, Morgan, Leonard 2,
Wohlford. BB-Roenicke 2, Davis, Evans, May. SH-LeMaster. BALK-Martin.
GWRBI: Dauer
Temperature: 46, Sky: clear, Wind: out to right at 24 MPH.
Attendance: 58,221
Game Time: 2:38
Game 2, at Candlestick Park: Martinez vs. Laskey
GIANTS EVEN SERIES
4-Run Frame Paces Comeback
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 14 (AP) -- The San Francisco Giants used a four-run fourth to overcome a three-run deficit to square the World Series at a game apiece with a 4-3 victory.
All the runs in the game were scored in the fourth inning. The Orioles scored three runs in the top of the inning off Giants starter Bill Laskey and the Giants immediately bounced back with four in the bottom of the frame off Dennis Martinez.
The Orioles managed just two baserunners off Laskey through the first three innings but then set a World Series record in the fourth when Al Bumbry, Cal Ripken and Eddie Murray cracked consecutive triples to start the inning. Gary Roenicke drove in Murray with the third run with a single and Rich Dauer followed with a base hit of his own. With three runs in, none out and runners on first and second, Baltimore was threatening to blow the game wide open early, but Laskey regrouped, fanning Lenn Sakata and Rick Dempsey and inducing a weak ground ball off the bat of Martinez to end the inning.
That Laskey had blunted the Orioles surge and halted the momentum became clear in the bottom half of the frame. With one out, Milt May doubled and Johnnie LeMaster's single to left-center made it 3-1. Laskey sacrificed LeMaster to second, and the Giants then staged a big two-out rally. Chili Davis scored LeMaster with a double to left-center and Joe Morgan tied the game by tripling off the right field fence. Jack Clark capped the scoring with a single through the box, putting the Giants on top.
Both pitchers settled down from that point on. Laskey set the Orioles down in order in each of the next three innings and Martinez prevented the Giants from scoring through the sixth. Sammy Stewart replaced Martinez after the Orioles' starter was lifted for a pinch hitter in the seventh and, despite walking three batters in two innings, held the Giants off the scoreboard.
Laskey pitched into the eighth inning and ran into trouble in that frame because of some shoddy defense. With one out, John Lowenstein reached base when LeMaster kicked a ground ball. The San Francisco shortstop compounded the mistake by kicking Ripken's tailor made double play grounder three pitches later. Murray lined to Clark for the second out but Laskey, perhaps tiring a bit deep into his third postseason start, walked Roenicke to fill the bases. The Giants pulled the same double switch that worked out so well for them in the NLCS-clinching fifth game against Montreal, inserting Max Venable into left field, this time in place of Jim Wohlford, in the ninth spot in the order and Greg Minton, who had blown the save in Game 1, in the sixth spot. Minton redeemed himself by forcing Rich Dauer to ground out to end the threat.
In the top of the ninth, with Minton still on the hill, pinch hitter Jim Dwyer led off by reaching base on an infield single. Rick Dempsey's bunt attempt led to a force on Dwyer at second. Floyd Rayford ran for Dempsey, but it didn't matter. Minton got pinch hitter Terry Crowley to fly to center and Bumbry to fly to Venable in shallow left to complete the save.
After a day off to travel across the country, the two teams will meet at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore for Game 3 when left-handers Atlee Hammaker and Mike Flanagan will face off.
10/14/1982, Bal82-SF82, Candlestick Park
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB DP
1982 Orioles 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 8 0 7 1
1982 Giants 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 x 4 7 2 9 1
Orioles AB R H BI AVG Giants AB R H BI AVG
Bumbry cf 4 0 1 0 .444 Davis cf 4 1 2 1 .250
Lowenstein lf 4 1 2 0 .500 Morgan 2b 2 1 1 1 .571
Ripken ss 4 1 1 1 .125 Clark rf 3 0 1 1 .250
Murray 1b 4 1 1 1 .250 Smith 1b 4 0 0 0 .000
Roenicke rf 3 0 1 1 .400 Evans 3b 2 0 0 0 .000
Dauer 3b 4 0 1 0 .250 Wohlford lf 4 0 0 0 .000
Sakata 2b 3 0 0 0 .167 Minton p 0 0 0 0 .000
Dwyer ph 1 0 1 0 1.000 May c 3 1 2 0 .667
Dempsey c 4 0 0 0 .000 LeMaster ss 3 1 1 1 .400
Rayford pr 0 0 0 0 .000 Laskey p 2 0 0 0 .000
Martinez,D p 2 0 0 0 .000 Venable lf 1 0 0 0 .000
Singleton ph 1 0 0 0 .000 28 4 7 4
Stewart p 0 0 0 0 .000
Crowley ph 1 0 0 0 .000
35 3 8 3
Orioles INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Martinez,D L 0-1 6.0 7 4 4 4 4 95 57 6.00
Stewart 2.0 0 0 0 3 1 31 14 0.00
8.0 7 4 4 7 5 126 71
Giants INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Laskey W 1-0 7.2 7 3 3 2 7 117 68 3.52
Minton S 1 1.1 1 0 0 0 0 15 11 16.20
9.0 8 3 3 2 7 132 79
Bal: Singleton batted for Martinez,D in the 7th
Dwyer batted for Sakata in the 9th
Rayford ran for Dempsey in the 9th
Crowley batted for Stewart in the 9th
SF : Venable inserted at lf in the 8th
E-LeMaster 2. 2B-Davis, May. 3B-Lowenstein, Ripken, Murray, Morgan.
SB-Davis(1). CS-Bumbry, Lowenstein. K-Bumbry, Ripken, Murray 2, Sakata,
Dempsey, Singleton, Morgan, Clark, LeMaster, Laskey 2. BB-Bumbry, Roenicke,
Davis, Morgan 2, Clark, Evans 2, May. SH-LeMaster, Laskey.
GWRBI: Clark
Temperature: 55, Sky: clear, Wind: left to right at 19 MPH.
Attendance: 57,944
Game Time: 2:33
Game 3, at Memorial Stadium: Hammaker vs. Flanagan
O'S OVERCOME EARLY DEFICIT, HAMMER GIANTS
4 SF Errors Contribute to Blown 4-0 Lead
BALTIMORE, Oct. 16 (AP) -- The Baltimore Orioles shook off an early 4-0 deficit and came back to hammer the San Francisco Giants, 10-5, in Game 3 of the World Series. Baltimore now leads the Series two-games-to-one.
Early on it appeared that it would be the Giants who would enjoy a 2-1 Series lead. San Francisco got to Orioles starter Mike Flanagan to the tune of three runs in the very first inning. Chili Davis led off the game with a single to left-center and one out later Flanagan walked Jack Clark to put runners at first and second. Reggie Smith followed with a double to right-center field, scoring both Davis and Clark. After Darrell Evans struck out, Bob Brenly bounced a base hit into center field, scoring Smith and putting the Giants on top, 3-0.
When Jeff Leonard deposited Flanagan's second inning first pitch fastball into the left field bullpen, a San Francisco rout seemed possible, if not likely. In fact, the Giants threatened to blow the game wide open in that very frame. With one out, Davis walked and following a Joe Morgan pop up, Clark reached base when shortstop Cal Ripken kicked his ground ball. But Smith struck out to end the inning, killing the threat.
Still, the Giants led 4-0 and starter Atlee Hammaker was mowing down the Orioles. The first 10 Baltimore hitters went down in order, but the streak ended with a crash one out into the fourth inning. Rich Dauer looped a soft single into center field to break the string of retired hitters, and advanced to second when Davis overran the ball. The error was the first of four assessed to the Giants in the game. Ripken then lined a Hammaker offering between first and second for a single, with Dauer holding at third. It appeared that San Francisco would escape the inning without damage when Eddie Murray tapped a ball back to the mound. But Hammaker, in his haste to start a double play, made a bad throw to second, pulling Morgan off the bag. Instead of the inning being over, the Orioles had a run in, runners at first and second and the potential tying run at the plate with only one out. Gary Roenicke kept the rally going with a double into the right-center field gap, scoring Ripken and chasing Murray to third. With the infield back, Benny Ayala's soft grounder to short scored Murray, with Roenicke holding at second. Dan Ford flied to center to end the inning, but the Orioles had cut the lead to 4-3. Only one of the runs was unearned, but the Giants knew that, had the double play been completed, they'd have escaped the inning with their four-run lead intact.
Flanagan retired the Giants in order in the third and fourth innings and then staunched a Giants uprising that threatened to seize back the game's momentum in the top of the fifth. With one out, Clark hit a sharp ground ball past Dauer at third for a double. Smith grounded to short for the second out of the inning, but Flanagan clipped Evans with a curve ball to put runners on first and second and then walked Brenly to fill the bases. He fell behind Jim Wohlford 3-1 before inducing a harmless grounder to second to end the inning.
In the bottom half of the frame, the Orioles seized the lead for good. Lenn Sakata led off with a base hit, but was cut down at second base on a botched hit-and-run. Rick Dempsey grounded out to short for the second out, but then Hammaker fell apart. He walked Al Bumbry and yielded a sharp single to center off the bat of Dauer, which advanced Bumbry to third. Ripken then tomahawked a double off the left-center field wall. Bumbry and Dauer both scored, making it 5-4 and ending Hammaker's day. Fred Breining replaced him on the hill, walked Murray intentionally after falling behind 3-0 in the count, and then retired Roenicke on a ground ball to end the inning.
After the Giants went down in order in the top of the sixth, the Orioles busted the game open in the bottom half. Ken Singleton, pinch hitting for Ayala, led off with a walk. Ford fanned, but Sakata grounded a base hit to right, moving Singleton to second. Dempsey followed with a single to right-center, scoring Singleton--making it 6-4--and chasing Sakata to third. Bumbry struck out, but Dauer lined a single to left-center, scoring Sakata and moving Dempsey to third. Ripken's single to right capped the scoring in the inning and drove Breining from the mound. Al Holland replaced him and struck out Murray, but the Giants now trailed 8-4.
The Giants never gave any indication that they would get back in the game. A Dempsey RBI single in the seventh made it 9-4 and Murray's eighth inning sacrifice fly increased the Baltimore lead to six runs. San Francisco scored a consolation run in the ninth--on Flanagan's balk, of all things--but it was meaningless in the end.
Flanagan, who had started so poorly, recovered smartly, allowing just three hits after Leonard's home run leading off the second. The Orioles bashed out 13 hits, paced by Dauer's four and Ripken's three.
Game 4 of the series will be tomorrow at Memorial Stadium. Rich Gale will be on the hill for the Giants and the Orioles will counter with Scott McGregor.
10/16/1982, SF82-Bal82, Memorial Stadium
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB DP
1982 Giants 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 6 4 8 0
1982 Orioles 0 0 0 3 2 3 1 1 x 10 13 1 8 0
Giants AB R H BI AVG Orioles AB R H BI AVG
Davis cf 3 1 1 0 .273 Bumbry cf 4 1 0 0 .308
Morgan 2b 5 0 0 0 .333 Dauer 3b 5 3 4 1 .462
Clark rf 3 1 1 0 .273 Ripken ss 5 1 3 3 .308
Smith 1b 5 1 1 2 .077 Murray 1b 3 1 0 2 .182
Evans 3b 3 0 0 0 .000 Roenicke lf 5 1 2 1 .400
Brenly c 3 0 1 1 .333 Ayala dh 2 0 0 1 .000
Wohlford lf 4 0 0 0 .000 Singleton ph 2 1 0 0 .000
Leonard dh 4 1 1 1 .125 Ford rf 3 0 0 0 .000
LeMaster ss 4 1 1 0 .333 Sakata 2b 4 1 2 0 .300
34 5 6 4 Dempsey c 4 1 2 2 .167
37 10 13 10
Giants INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Hammaker L 0-1 4.2 6 5 3 1 3 69 46 5.79
Breining 1.0 4 3 3 2 2 34 19 27.00
Holland 1.1 3 2 1 1 2 40 22 6.75
Barr 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 14 9 0.00
8.0 13 10 7 4 7 157 96
Orioles INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Flanagan W 1-0 9.0 6 5 5 5 4 153 87 5.00
9.0 6 5 5 5 4 153 87
Bal: Singleton batted for Ayala in the 6th
E-Davis, Smith, LeMaster, Hammaker, Ripken. 2B-Clark, Smith, Dauer, Ripken,
Roenicke 2. HR-Leonard(1). CS-Sakata. K-Smith 2, Evans 2, Bumbry 2, Dauer,
Murray, Roenicke, Ford 2. BB-Davis 2, Clark 2, Brenly, Bumbry, Murray, Ford,
Singleton. SF-Murray. HBP-Evans. HB-Flanagan. WP-Holland. BALK-Flanagan.
GWRBI: Ripken
Temperature: 67, Sky: clear, Wind: left to right at 14 MPH.
Attendance: 52,842
Game Time: 2:45
Game 4, at Memorial Stadium: Gale vs. McGregor
ORIOLES POUND S.F., MOVE TO WITHIN A WIN OF CHAMPIONSHIP
Giants Now Have Backs Against Wall
BALTIMORE, Oct. 17 (AP) -- The Baltimore Orioles moved to within a game of becoming world champions, crushing the San Francisco Giants 11-2 at Memorial Stadium in Game 4, taking a commanding three games to one lead in the World Series.
On a rainy day that produced a brief weather delay, the Orioles broke open a tight game in the sixth inning and led 11-0 after seven. Baltimore starter Scott McGregor came within an out of a complete game shutout but finally tired in the ninth inning and gave way to Don Stanhouse to mop up the final out.
The Orioles took a 1-0 lead in the second on an unearned run. Eddie Murray led off the inning by reaching on third baseman Darrell Evans' two-base throwing error. With one out, Gary Roenicke's fly ball to the base of the left field wall was caught by Jim Wohlford. Murray advanced to third on the play. Rich Dauer followed with a two-out single to produce the run.
The Giants had an opportunity to tie the game in the fourth when Jack Clark led off with a double. McGregor retired Reggie Smith on a pop to short and Evans on a ground ball to third, but Bob Brenly lined a single over short. Left fielder John Lowenstein speared the ball on one hop and gunned Clark out at the plate to keep the score 1-0.
It remained that way until the bottom of the fifth when the Orioles pushed two more runs across off Giants starter Rich Gale. Gale retired the first two batters without incident, but then walked Rick Dempsey and Al Bumbry. Lowenstein belted Gale's 1-2 fastball into right-center field for a triple, making it 3-0. Cal Ripken grounded out to end the inning.
After a scoreless top of the sixth, Baltimore broke open the game--and perhaps the collective spirit of the Giants--in the bottom half. Gale's control, a problem that led to two runs in the fifth, undid the Giants completely in the sixth. Murray, Ken Singleton and Gary Roenicke all drew walks, despite the best San Francisco efforts to stall to allow a relief pitcher to get ready to enter the game. With the bases loaded and none out, the Giants tipped their hand at how seriously they viewed their plight by bringing fireman Greg Minton into the game. It was an unorthodox move--going with Minton in the sixth inning--but the Giants reasoned that it was now or never for their chances to stay in the game and, perhaps, the Series. Minton had worked his way out of a similar jam against the Montreal Expos in the National League Championship Series and if he could replicate that performance here the Giants would still have a chance to come back and even the Series.
It wasn't to be. Dauer greeted Minton by looping a single to center, scoring Murray to make it 4-0, with the bases remaining loaded. Lenn Sakata reached on an infield single as a diving Joe Morgan was only able to smother a sharp ground ball. The bases were still loaded, with no outs, and the Giants staring at a five-run deficit. Dempsey then bounced a single through the box to score two runs. Minton had faced three batters and all three inherited runners, plus one of his own, had scored. There were still runners on first and second, no outs, and the Orioles led 7-0. Minton avoided any further damage by inducing a fielder's choice grounder and then a double play, but the damage had already been done.
If that wasn't enough, the Orioles pushed four more runs across the plate in the seventh, like the fifth doing all their work with two outs and the bases empty. Singleton and Roenicke both walked. Dauer singled to center, scoring Singleton and moving Roenicke to third. That ended Minton's day; he was replaced on the hill by Gary Lavelle. On his very first pitch to Sakata the Orioles' second baseman lined a ball to the opposite field that just crept into the first row of the right field bleachers. The three-run homer made it 11-0 and capped the scoring for the Orioles.
The Giants pushed two runs across in the ninth off the fatigued McGregor but it was far too little and far too late.
San Francisco now has no margin for error. Baltimore looks to win the Series on its home field in Game 5 tomorrow. The Orioles will send Jim Palmer to the mound while the Giants counter with their own ace, Bill Laskey, who will be pitching on three days rest.
10/17/1982, SF82-Bal82, Memorial Stadium
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB DP
1982 Giants 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 8 2 11 3
1982 Orioles 0 1 0 0 2 4 4 0 x 11 9 0 4 0
Giants AB R H BI AVG Orioles AB R H BI AVG
Davis cf 5 0 1 1 .250 Bumbry cf 4 1 1 0 .294
Morgan 2b 4 0 1 1 .313 Lowenstein lf 4 0 1 2 .417
Clark rf 3 0 1 0 .286 Ford rf 1 0 0 0 .000
Smith 1b 5 0 1 0 .111 Ripken ss 5 0 0 0 .222
Evans 3b 4 0 0 0 .000 Murray 1b 3 2 0 0 .143
Brenly c 4 1 2 0 .429 Singleton dh 2 2 0 0 .000
Wohlford lf 2 1 0 0 .000 Roenicke rf 2 2 0 0 .333
Leonard dh 4 0 1 0 .167 Dauer 3b 4 2 3 3 .529
LeMaster ss 3 0 1 0 .333 Sakata 2b 4 1 2 4 .357
34 2 8 2 Dempsey c 3 1 2 2 .267
32 11 9 11
Giants INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Gale L 0-1 5.0 4 6 5 5 5 104 57 9.00
Minton 1.2 4 4 4 2 1 39 21 18.90
Lavelle 1.1 1 1 1 0 0 6 6 3.00
8.0 9 11 10 7 6 149 84
Orioles INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
McGregor W 1-0 8.2 8 2 2 6 3 169 99 2.08
Stanhouse 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 6 3 0.00
9.0 8 2 2 6 3 175 102
Bal: Ford inserted at rf in the 8th
Roenicke moved to lf in the 8th
E-Smith, Evans. 2B-Clark, Smith. 3B-Lowenstein. HR-Sakata(1). SB-Leonard(1).
CS-Bumbry. K-Morgan, Leonard 2, Lowenstein, Murray 2, Singleton 2, Roenicke.
BB-Morgan, Clark 2, Wohlford 2, LeMaster, Bumbry, Murray, Singleton 2,
Roenicke 2, Dempsey.
GWRBI: Dauer
Temperature: 73, Field: wet, Sky: threatening, Wind: in from center at 7 MPH,
Attendance: 53,417
Game Time: 2:56
Rain Delays: 27 minutes.
Game 5, at Memorial Stadium: Laksey vs. Palmer
GIANTS PREVAIL IN GAME 5
Lavelle Saves Day, Sends Series Back to the Bay
BALTIMORE, Oct. 18 (AP) -- Bill Laskey fired seven strong innings and Gary Lavelle extracted his team from a huge jam in the eighth inning as the San Francisco Giants staved off elimination, defeating the Baltimore Orioles 3-2 in Game 5 of the World Series. The two teams will travel back to the West Coast tomorrow with Game 6 the following day at Candlestick Park. The Orioles lead the Series, three games to two.
While the game was close throughout, the Giants took the lead in the very first inning and never surrendered it. Facing Baltimore starter Jim Palmer, Joe Morgan rapped a one-out single to right in the opening frame. On the very first pitch to the next hitter, Jack Clark, Morgan stole second. Clark then looped a single to right-center, scoring Morgan and putting San Francisco on top, 1-0.
The Giants made it 2-0 in the fourth on Darrell Evans' one-out home run into the right field bullpen. The Orioles got on the board themselves in the bottom half of the inning. With one out, Eddie Murray crushed a Laskey fastball off the wall in right-center field for a triple. After Ken Singleton walked, Gary Roenicke bounded a single between Morgan and Reggie Smith into right field. Murray scored and Singleton stopped at second. Laskey then rose to the occasion, retiring Rich Dauer on a fly to center and Sakata on a pop to third, keeping the score 2-1.
Both Palmer and Laskey mowed their opponents down from that point on, with neither team managing to move a runner past second base until the 8th.
In the top of that eighth inning, the Giants got the insurance run they were looking for when Smith, with two outs, hammered a Palmer fastball just inside the right field foul pole, making it 3-1.
The extra run proved to be critical. John Lowenstein led off the inning with a triple off the right field wall. Cal Ripken followed with an opposite field single, scoring Lowenstein and cutting the Giants' lead to 3-2. That ended Laskey's effort; he was replaced by Jim Barr, who promptly yielded Murray's double to the right-center field gap. With no outs, Ripken was held up at third. Suddenly the Giants were facing the tying and go-ahead runs in scoring position with no outs. With the Memorial Stadium crowd roaring, San Francisco brought in Gary Lavelle with Singleton due up. The switch-hitting Singleton had been bothered by an elbow problem all year that made hitting right-handed almost impossible, so the Orioles countered the Lavelle move by sending Benny Ayala into the game to pinch hit. Lavelle began his Houdini act by inducing Ayala to tap back to the mound. The runners held as Lavelle threw to first for out number one. Roenicke was then walked intentionally, filling the bases for Dauer. On a 1-1 pitch, Lavelle's change-up forced Dauer to bounce a ball right back to the mound. Lavelle fired to Bob Brenly at the plate to force Ripken. Brenly's throw to first was too late, but the Giants still held the lead and there were now two outs. Lavelle then completed the job, getting Lenn Sakata on a fly ball to left to end the inning.
The ninth inning was comparatively anti-climactic as both teams went down in order. Laskey earned his second World Series victory and Lavelle was credited with a brilliant two-inning save. Palmer was the hard luck loser.
Game 6 will feature Dennis Martinez for the Orioles and Atlee Hammaker for the Giants.
10/18/1982, SF82-Bal82, Memorial Stadium
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB DP
1982 Giants 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 3 5 1 6 0
1982 Orioles 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 8 0 9 0
Giants AB R H BI AVG Orioles AB R H BI AVG
Davis cf 4 0 0 0 .200 Bumbry cf 5 0 0 0 .227
Morgan 2b 4 1 1 0 .300 Lowenstein lf 4 1 2 0 .438
Clark rf 4 0 1 1 .278 Ford ph 1 0 0 0 .000
Smith dh 4 1 1 1 .136 Ripken ss 4 0 1 1 .227
Evans 1b 3 1 1 1 .067 Murray 1b 4 1 3 0 .278
May c 3 0 0 0 .444 Singleton dh 2 0 0 0 .000
Brenly ph 1 0 0 0 .375 Ayala ph 1 0 0 0 .000
O'Malley 3b 3 0 1 0 .333 Roenicke rf 3 0 1 1 .333
Venable lf 2 0 0 0 .000 Dauer 3b 4 0 0 0 .429
Wohlford ph 1 0 0 0 .000 Sakata 2b 4 0 0 0 .278
LeMaster ss 3 0 0 0 .267 Dempsey c 4 0 1 0 .263
32 3 5 3 36 2 8 2
Giants INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Laskey W 2-0 7.0 7 2 2 1 3 118 76 3.07
Barr 0.0 1 0 0 0 0 6 3 0.00
Lavelle S 1 2.0 0 0 0 1 0 22 13 1.80
9.0 8 2 2 2 3 146 92
Orioles INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Palmer L 1-1 7.2 5 3 3 4 3 121 74 4.02
Martinez,T 1.1 0 0 0 0 1 14 9 0.00
9.0 5 3 3 4 4 135 83
SF : Brenly batted for May in the 8th
Brenly moved to c in the 8th
Wohlford batted for Venable in the 9th
Wohlford moved to lf in the 9th
Bal: Ayala batted for Singleton in the 8th
Ford batted for Lowenstein in the 9th
E-LeMaster. 2B-Murray. 3B-Lowenstein, Murray. HR-Smith(1), Evans(1).
SB-Morgan(1). K-Davis, Clark 2, Wohlford, Lowenstein 2, Roenicke. BB-Evans,
O'Malley, Venable, LeMaster, Singleton, Roenicke.
GWRBI: Clark
Temperature: 64, Sky: partly cloudy, Wind: out to right at 3 MPH.
Attendance: 53,140
Game Time: 2:57
Game 6, at Candlestick Park: Martinez vs. Hammaker
GIANTS FORCE GAME 7 VIA BIG INNINGS
Smith Roughs Up Martinez Early, G-Men Hold On Late
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 20 (AP) -- The San Franciso Giants pushed the World
Series to the limit, forcing a seventh and deciding game by pounding Baltimore
Orioles starter Dennis Martinez early and then hanging on for dear life late, en
route to a 9-7 victory.
The Giants took control of the game almost immediately. After holding the
Orioles scoreless in the top of the first, Chili Davis led off the bottom half
of the frame by roping a Martinez fastball past first baseman Eddie Murray and
into the right field corner for a triple. Joe Morgan followed with a single over
the head of second baseman Lenn Sakata to put the Giants on top, 1-0. After Jack
Clark struck out, Reggie Smith followed with a drive that cleared the fence in
right-center field. It was Smith's second home run of the Series and it put San
Francisco ahead 3-0. It would not be his last big hit of the contest.
The Orioles picked up a run in the second when Martinez, of all people, hit a bases loaded sacrifice fly, scoring Gary Roenicke but the impact of that run was blunted, and then some, by the Giants' third inning.
On top 3-1, the Giants got things started when Davis led off with a single to right. Morgan followed with an infield single putting runners on first and second with none out. Clark then hit into a fielder's choice to third baseman Rich Dauer, who forced Davis at third. That brought up Smith and for the second time in as many at bats he delivered. This time he hit a towering blow that cleared the 400-foot sign in deepest center field, putting the Giants ahead 6-1 and taking a curtain call at the behest and to the delight of the sellout partisan crowd. Smith's third home run of the Series produced his fourth and fifth runs batted in of the game. But San Francisco didn't stop there. Darrell Evans followed with an opposite field double into the left field corner and Milt May followed with a two-bagger of his own, this one to right-center, plating Evans. With the score now 7-1, Martinez's day was at an end, but the Giants weren't quite finished. Reliever Storm Davis yielded a line drive single over Murray's head to Max Venable. May scored to make it 8-1 and that finally capped the scoring in the inning.
Atlee Hammaker took over from there. The Giants' starter allowed a single baserunner in each inning from the third through the sixth, but no Oriole made it past first base.
The Giants pushed their lead to 9-1 on Milt May's leadoff home run off Davis in the fifth and there the score remained until the seventh when the Orioles pushed across a run when Cal Ripken's two-out double plated Al Bumbry.
The Orioles nudged across another run in the eighth due to some shoddy defense on the part of the Giants. Dan Ford reached on an infield hit with one out and after Sakata flied out Rick Dempsey singled to center. Benny Ayala came on to pinch hit for pitcher Ross Grimsley and his ground ball to third was booted by Evans, filling the bases. Bumbry's single to center scored Ford with an unearned run to make it 9-3.
In the ninth, another San Francisco miscue helped open the door to a near-comeback by Baltimore. Ripken's grounder to the mound leading off the inning was misplayed by Hammaker, allowing Ripken to reach first. The Giants' lefty came back to strike out both Murray and Roenicke. But Ford then doubled to right, advancing Ripken to third and Sakata singled to center, scoring Ripken with Ford holding at third. With the score now 9-4 and Hammaker noticeably tiring, the Giants brought Greg Minton in to close out the game, but in a worrisome sign, the right-hander struggled for the second straight outing and the third time in four appearances in the Series. Jim Dwyer hit for Dempsey and dropped a single into center field, scoring Ford to make it 9-5 and advancing Sakata to second. John Lowenstein then was called upon to hit for the pitcher, Don Stanhouse, and he slapped an opposite field single, filling the bases. The tying run was now coming to the plate in the form of Al Bumbry. With a 1-1 count, Minton uncorked a wild pitch, making it 9-6 and leaving runners at second and third. Bumbry ultimately walked on a 3-2 pitch to refill the bases. Now the tying run was on base and the potential lead run stood at the plate in Rich Dauer. Dauer dropped Minton's second pitch over the head of Morgan at second, each runner advanced a base, with Dwyer coming home to make it 9-7. The tying run was now in scoring position and the potential lead run was at first. Minton finally ended the game by getting Ripken to ground to Johnnie LeMaster at short.
It wasn't pretty at the end but the Giants will have a chance to take the Series tomorrow night--something that seemed nearly impossible when they trailed three games to one--when they send Renie Martin to the mound. The Orioles will counter with Mike Flanagan. As befitting a seventh game of the World Series, both clubs are expected to have virtually all of their pitchers available if needed.
10/20/1982, Bal82-SF82, Candlestick Park
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB DP
1982 Orioles 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 7 16 0 14 0
1982 Giants 3 0 5 0 1 0 0 0 x 9 12 2 3 0
Orioles AB R H BI AVG Giants AB R H BI AVG
Bumbry cf 4 1 1 1 .231 Davis cf 4 2 3 0 .292
Dauer 3b 6 0 2 1 .407 Morgan 2b 4 1 3 1 .375
Ripken ss 6 1 2 1 .250 Clark rf 4 1 0 0 .227
Murray 1b 5 0 1 0 .261 Smith 1b 4 2 2 5 .192
Roenicke lf 5 1 1 0 .300 Evans 3b 4 1 1 0 .105
Ford rf 5 2 3 0 .273 May c 4 2 2 2 .462
Sakata 2b 5 1 3 1 .348 Venable lf 4 0 1 1 .143
Dempsey c 3 0 1 0 .273 LeMaster ss 4 0 0 0 .211
Dwyer ph 1 1 1 1 1.000 Hammaker p 4 0 0 0 .000
Martinez,D p 0 0 0 1 .000 Minton p 0 0 0 0 .000
Davis p 1 0 0 0 .000 36 9 12 9
Rayford ph 1 0 0 0 .000
Grimsley p 0 0 0 0 .000
Ayala ph 1 0 0 0 .000
Stanhouse p 0 0 0 0 .000
Lowenstein ph 1 0 1 0 .471
44 7 16 6
Orioles INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Martinez,D L 0-2 2.1 8 8 8 0 2 65 39 12.96
Davis 3.2 4 1 1 0 3 64 47 2.45
Grimsley 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 7 5 0.00
Stanhouse 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 12 7 0.00
8.0 12 9 9 0 6 148 98
Giants INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Hammaker W 1-1 8.2 13 6 2 2 5 145 95 3.38
Minton 0.1 3 1 1 1 0 22 12 19.64
9.0 16 7 3 3 5 167 107
Bal: Rayford batted for Davis in the 7th
Ayala batted for Grimsley in the 8th
Dwyer batted for Dempsey in the 9th
Lowenstein batted for Stanhouse in the 9th
E-Evans, Hammaker. 2B-Ripken, Ford, Evans, May. 3B-Davis. HR-Smith 2(3),
May(1). K-Murray, Roenicke 2, Ford, Dempsey, Clark 2, Venable, LeMaster 2,
Hammaker. BB-Bumbry 2, Dempsey. SF-Martinez,D. WP-Minton.
GWRBI: Morgan
Temperature: 60, Sky: clear, Wind: out to center at 23 MPH.
Attendance: 58,222
Game Time: 2:50
Game 7, at Candlestick Park: Flanagan vs. Martin
O'S CRUSH GIANTS TO WIN SERIES
Murray, Flanagan Lead Game 7 Blowout
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 21 (AP) -- The Baltimore Orioles erupted for seven runs in the very first inning and went on to crush the San Francisco Giants, 11-3, in the seventh and deciding game of the World Series. The Giants were trying to complete a rally from what had been a three games to one deficit but, in anticlimactic fashion, Game 7 was over almost as soon as it began. A raucous crowd of better than 58,000, anxious for the first pitch, was quieted almost immediately by the Orioles' bats.
It was a disastrous start for San Francisco's Renie Martin. Facing Al Bumbry to start the game, with a 2-2 count and the crowd on its feet cheering for a strikeout, Martin yielded a line drive single to right. That brought John Lowenstein to the plate and on a 1-0 pitch, he hammered a Martin fastball to right field. The ball barely missed striking the upper deck facade and landed amongst the spectators high in the auxiliary football seats. Six pitches into the game the Giants trailed 2-0. It was to get worse--much worse. Cal Ripken singled off the glove of a diving Johnnie LeMaster at short and then Eddie Murray followed with a towering blast that landed almost as high up in the right field seats as Lowenstein's home run. It was now 4-0 Orioles. The Giants hurriedly warmed up Fred Breining and stalled for time, but Martin yielded a sharp single to left to Gary Roenicke before being pulled from the game. The right-hander faced five batters and failed to retire any of them. Breining retired Rich Dauer on a fly ball to center field, but then Lenn Sakata laced a double into the left field corner, scoring Roenicke from first and putting Baltimore on top 5-0. Rick Dempsey then walked on four pitches. Orioles pitcher Mike Flanagan sacrificed the runners to second and third and with two outs Bumbry, batting for the second time in the inning, grounded a single into right field, scoring Sakata and chasing Dempsey to third. Lowenstein then walked to fill the bases and Breining uncorked a wild pitch while pitching to Ripken, which scored Dempsey. It was now 7-0. Ripken finally, mercifully, ended the top of the first inning by lining sharply to Chili Davis in center field. 12 men had come to the plate; seven had scored.
After Flanagan held the Giants off the scoreboard in the bottom half of the inning, Murray upped the Orioles' lead to 8-0 when he drove a Breining offering to the opposite field and cleared the fence in straight away left for his second home run of the game.
Flanagan retired the Giants in order in the bottom of the second and if there was any doubt about the game's outcome, the Orioles effectively erased it in the top of the third. With one out, Bumbry flared a single to left--his third hit of the game in as many trips to the plate. Lowenstein followed with a single through the box and Bumbry raced to third. Ripken then blooped a ball down the right field line that fell fair. Bumbry scored, Lowenstein advanced to third and Ripken ended up at second with a soft double. It was now 9-0 and Murray then drove in his fourth and fifth runs of the contest by singling to left-center, scoring both baserunners. The Baltimore lead was now 11-0.
From that point on, no one scored--or even came particularly close to doing so--until the Giants scored some consolation runs in the eighth. Joe Morgan's sacrifice fly drove in the first run and a Dempsey passed ball surrendered the second. LeMaster's ninth inning single drove in Bob Brenly with the game's final run, but there was never a sense that San Francisco had any chance of getting back in the ball game.
When Davis' fly ball settled into Roenicke's glove with the contest's final out, the Orioles celebrated as World Series champions do, and the Giants had the ignominy of having to watch it happen on their home field.
Murray was selected as the World Series MVP, finishing 9-28 with five extra base hits including the two Game 7 home runs, in addition to eight runs scored and 10 driven in. Mike Flanagan finished the Series with a pair of victories, completing both of his starts in the process. The Orioles outscored the Giants 50-31 but needed the full seven games to pull off the win.
10/21/1982, Bal82-SF82, Candlestick Park
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB DP
1982 Orioles 7 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 15 0 8 0
1982 Giants 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 3 5 1 7 0
Orioles AB R H BI AVG Giants AB R H BI AVG
Bumbry cf 6 2 3 1 .281 Davis cf 4 0 1 0 .286
Lowenstein lf 4 2 2 2 .476 Morgan 2b 2 0 0 1 .346
Ford rf 0 0 0 0 .273 Clark rf 3 0 0 0 .200
Ripken ss 5 2 2 1 .273 Smith 1b 3 0 0 0 .172
Murray 1b 5 2 3 5 .321 Evans 3b 4 0 0 0 .087
Roenicke rf 4 1 1 0 .292 Brenly c 4 1 2 0 .417
Dauer 3b 5 0 1 0 .375 Leonard lf 3 1 0 0 .133
Sakata 2b 5 1 2 1 .357 LeMaster ss 4 0 1 1 .217
Gulliver 3b 0 0 0 0 .000 Martin p 0 0 0 0 .000
Dempsey c 3 1 1 0 .280 Breining p 0 0 0 0 .000
Flanagan p 4 0 0 0 .000 Wohlford ph 1 0 0 0 .000
41 11 15 10 Holland p 0 0 0 0 .000
Sularz ph 1 0 0 0 .000
Barr p 0 0 0 0 .000
Kuiper ph 1 1 1 0 1.000
Lavelle p 0 0 0 0 .000
May ph 1 0 0 0 .429
31 3 5 2
Orioles INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Flanagan W 2-0 9.0 5 3 3 5 5 136 77 4.00
9.0 5 3 3 5 5 136 77
Giants INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Martin L 0-1 0.0 5 5 5 0 0 19 12 10.29
Breining 3.0 7 6 6 2 2 66 39 20.25
Holland 3.0 2 0 0 1 3 44 29 2.08
Barr 2.0 0 0 0 0 1 14 13 0.00
Lavelle 1.0 1 0 0 0 1 17 11 1.50
9.0 15 11 11 3 7 160 104
Bal: Ford inserted at rf in the 8th
Roenicke moved to lf in the 8th
Dauer moved to 2b in the 9th
Gulliver inserted at 3b in the 9th
SF : Wohlford batted for Breining in the 3rd
Sularz batted for Holland in the 6th
Kuiper batted for Barr in the 8th
May batted for Lavelle in the 9th
E-LeMaster. 2B-Ripken, Sakata. HR-Lowenstein(1), Murray 2(2). K-Bumbry,
Lowenstein, Murray, Roenicke, Sakata, Flanagan 2, Morgan 2, Brenly, Leonard,
May. BB-Lowenstein, Dempsey 2, Davis, Morgan, Clark, Smith, Leonard.
SH-Flanagan. SF-Morgan. HBP-Roenicke. PB-Dempsey. HB-Breining. WP-Breining.
BALK-Flanagan 3.
GWRBI: Lowenstein
Temperature: 62, Sky: clear, Wind: left to right at 13 MPH.
Attendance: 58,219
Game Time: 2:46