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Oct. 16, 1982 5A ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 7T XI Vuckovich's 'Best' Didn't Allow For McGee Factor 9 rA Willie's Show CARDINALS to AB RBI PO A Herr2b 5 0 0 0 1 3 Oberkfell 3b 4 0 0 0 1 .1 Hernandez lb 4 0 0 0 8 0 o-Hendrlckrf 2 110 3 0 Porterc 4 0 0 0 0 L. Smith If 4 2 2 0 1 0 Green If 0 0 0 0 0 0 lorgdh 4 110 0 0 McGee cf 3 2 2 4 6 0 O. Smith ss 3 0 0 1 1 3 Andularp 0 0 0 0 0 1 Kaatp 0 0 0 0 0 0 Balrp 0 0 0 0 0 0 Kaatp 0 0 0 0 0 0 Sutter 0 0 0 0 0 0 Totals 33 5 17 I MILWAUKEE (2) AB HRBI PO A Molltor3b 4 0 0 0 1 0 Yountss 3 1 0 0 5 5 Cooper lb 4 1 1 2 14 0 Simmons 4 0 10 1 1 Ogllvlelf 4 0 0 0 4 0 Thomas cf 4 0 1 0 2 0 Howell ah 2 0 0 0 0 0 Money dh 1 0 0 0 0 0 Moore rf 3000 0.0 Gantner 2b 30200-6 Vuckovich 0 0 0 0 0 2 McClurep 0 0 0 0 0 0 Totals 32 2 5 2 17 14 CARDINALS 000 030 201 6 MILWAUKEE 000 000 020 I Andujar Has 'Tough' Luck By Kevin Horrigan Of the) Port-Dispatch Staff MILWAUKEE For two hours here Friday night, Joaquin Andujar finally had a stage large enough to suit his ambitions.

Not to mention his talents. Maybe only the World Series is big enough for Andujar, who has been complaining for a week that no one pays attention to him. Well, they paid attention to him Friday night, when he threw his fits, starts, gestures, contortions, and ultimately his fastball and slider past the Milwaukee Brewers for 6 innings. He even got hurt in a big way. When Brewers catcher Ted Simmons crashed a one-hop ground ball off Andujar's right leg in the sixth, the big pitcher went down quickly.

With millions watching on television, Andujar rolled over twice, his face writhing in agony in stunning NBC color. "I picked up the ball and went over to Joaquin," said Cardinals third baseman Ken Oberkfell. "It was pretty clear he was in pain. I've seen him get hit before and he never went down." Oberkfell said Andujar was screaming. A guy asked if he Vas screaming in English or Spanish.

"I don't know," Oberkfell said. "He was screaming, I guess that could be either one." Andujar was examined at Mount Medical Center here, where X-rays showed no broken bones. The bottom line, said Cardinals team physician Stan London, "is he will play if needed." And that will only add luster to Andujar's self-proclaimed reputation of being "One Tough Dominican." He took a ball off his right leg in a game against the New York Mets in early September, and came back from a liner against his left shin during the first National League playoff game against the Atlanta Braves. The first report that came back to the stadium from Mount Sinai was that Andujar was "stable." It was generally believed to be the first time that the word stable had ever been applied to Andujar. Cardinals fans know his antics and his talents well.

But Friday, the world got to know Joaquin Andjuar. They learned: He never wears a sweatshirt under his uniform shirt, not even on a 48-degree Wisconsin night with the wind blowing straight out of Canada. He prefers to let his biceps the biceps that make him proclaim himself a dangerous power hitter bulge. The only adornment to his uniform are the See ANDUJAR, Page 8 i taw'iir 8 nafci B'liMaiiiW iiiiiifiiimniniiriTf ft iTrrrr riinsrariiiiiiiwiiiiiiiiiaaiitrniiii jiniitir nina mitoiiiiiii'iiiia iiflaiiiiiiiiimiTiiiiiiMiiaiiiiiffiiiiwiMittwaffi tftirn jfritfiaiffrii'nriwTriftin i iim i i 1 mar UPI By Mike Smith OftittPost-Oispatch Staff MILWAUKEE Pete Vuckovich feels rotten about what happened Friday night. Clutching a bottle of Yugoslavian plum brandy, compliments of some of his Serbian fans, the Milwaukee Brewers pitcher spoke apologetically of "letting everybody down" in a 6-2 loss to the Cardinals.

But Vuckovich also was of a mind to throw up his hands and plead, "What are you gonna do?" By his estimation, he had pitched better than at any point during an 184 season, allowing six hits in his 8 innings. What's more, he had followed the Brewers' scouting report to the letter. "I don't think I've thrown a six-hitter all year," the man they call "Vuke" said. "I've been behind hitters all year long. I've been walking people all year long.

So I get the hit total down and get the walk total down, and what do I have to show for it? "Some guy who hits four homers all year long, for crying out loud, dings me twice, and I've wound up putting us in a hole." Four times the Brewers had made offspeed deliveries to Willie McGee in the second game of the World Series, and four times they had dispatched him with ease. Armed with instructions to deal with McGee in similar fashion Friday, Vuckovich threw the Cardinals rookie an offspeed slider in the fifth inning and a straight changeup in the seventh. "Have they touched down yet?" Vuckovich wondered aloud. McGee's three-run homer in the fifth broke a scoreless tie between Vuckovich and Joaquin Andujar, and his bases-empty home run in the seventh boosted the Cardinals' advantage to 5-0. "I'd like to know what Willie McGee eats for breakfast," Vuckovich said.

"I don't know if it's Wheaties or what, but gosh dang, he just jumped all over me." "We gave him the slow stuff they told us to throw," catcher Ted Simmons said. "What can you do? It worked the other night, but they don't give you a written guarantee with these scouting reports. The scouting reports say that you don't throw me a fastball. You thow me only slow stuff. Well, I've hit a lot of homers off slow stuff Vuckovich had no quarrel with the instructions for pitching to McGee.

The scouts, he noted, are assuming those pitches won't be thrown belt-high. "Laterally, I missed by only a few inches," Vuckovich said. "Vertically, I was off by a foot and a half, and that's too much." LaPoint added, "I played against Willie in the minors, and you could see he had an awful lot of talent." LaPoint is in full agreement with those who have objected to naming the rookie of year before the playoff and World Series. Otherwise, McGee, who has hit three homers and two triples and has fielded brilliantly in the postseason games, might well be a shoo-in, say the objectors. Deadpan Willie said he first learned that he had been dealt to the Cardinals when he saw the "Transactions" listing in the newspaper.

The "Transactions" simply list the player moves in sports, from one club to another, with no elaboration. And it's always in agate (small) type. Said Hernandez: "I had to like McGee from the start because we knew he was hitting about .320 and was stealing a lot of bases. He's a humble person, never gets cocky or overconfident. It's a good thing, too, Willie McGee, Cardinals center fielder, times his game No.

3 in the World Series at Milwaukee leap perfectly to take a home run away from the Friday night. The Brewers' Ben Olgivie was on Brewers' Gorman Thomas in the ninth inning of base at the time. The Cardinals won, 6-2. o-Reached first on catchers' Interference. Cooper, Gantner, Simmons, Hernandez.

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Until Lonnie Smith batted in the fifth, Vuckovich had done a rousing impersonation of the Pete Vuckovich who had been the American League's premier pitcher until the final week of the season. The Cardinals had hit just two balls out of the infield and had only an infield single by George Hendrick to show for four innings of flailing at Vuckovich's efforts. At one point, the Cardinals hit eight consecutive infield grounders. But in the fifth, Vuckovich reverted to the form that has led to four defeats and a no decision in his last five outings including two critical games against Baltimore in the final week of the season and two playoff games against California. Smith doubled and Dane lorg See VUCKOVICH, Page 7 Sleep because this game will bite you in the butt if you let up." Hernandez added, "People have been underestimating our power.

We've always had guys who could hit the ball out of a small park." Herzog on McGee: "Great arm, great center fielder. Has quick bat and swings from both sides." SERIES NOTES: In the World Series, Hernandez is 0 for 11 and George Hendrick 1 for 10, the hit being an infield single. "I feel all right," Hernandez said. "I hit three balls well tonight." Hernandez said Hendrick did not get anything good to hit in the Series' third game. Keith has had three bad days with the glove in the Series.

After his third error, on Friday, NBC flashed on the TV screen, "Hernandez has been a gold glove winner the last four Andujar has been nailed by hard shots See LONNIE, Page 8 Hits Meay Help Put lonnie Smivtn Iw Big By Neal Russo Of the Post-Dispatch Staff MILWAUKEE A special kind of pressure has been keeping Lonnie Smith awake nights. But rookie Willie McGee apparently doesn't know what the word "pressure" means. Lonnie has been caught up in a horrible batting slump the last few weeks. He said he has been getting an average of three or four hours of sleep per night. "The big problem was that I began rolling over and tossing all night, and my wife finally started complaining because I was kicking her so much," Smith said.

After pounding a triple and a double to go with McGee's two home runs Friday, Smith disclosed that he had secret weapons new bats. They were delivered lust before the game by the Adirondack people. "I had been pulling off the ball too much," he said. "I just wasn't swinging Friday, stumbling and falling as he made the turn at first on his double in the fifth inning. He's been called "Skates" and MVP Most Valuable Pratfaller.

However, he has used speed to offset some of his shortcomings in the field. "The only one who really cuts me up a lot is Cosell, (ABC-TV broadcaster Howard) but I've gotten used to it," Lonnie said. "I've always stumbled a lot. Maybe it's partly because I'm so pigeon-toed. My teammates tease me about my falling down, but it's all in fun.

I like hitting in the Milwaukee park because I see the ball well and it carries well here." Lonnie said of fellow hero McGee: "When he was brought up from the minors, I saw a better Willie McGee than in the spring, even though he actually did have a pretty good spring in Florida. Tonight Willie played the way I wished I could have played in the first two World Series games." Bruce Sutter said of McGee, "When he slumped a little, Whitey stuck with him, instilling confidence in him, which has helped Willie tremendously." And Keith Hernandez on McGee, "Willie's hit the ball hard lately. He's hitting harder and higher line drives. In this park he's capable of hitting a home run every night." Pitcher Dave LaPoint couldn't pass up the chance to take a shot at Yankees owner George Steinbrenner for giving away McGee for pitcher Bob Sykes, who hasn't been making headlines lately. "I'll beat Steinbrenner's scratching his head a lot these days for not holding on to Willie McGee," said LaPoint.

"What were George and his Yankees thinking why bring up a rookie when they can buy a proven regular? Whitey was the opposite. He didn't see any sense in spending a pile of money when all he had to do was get a rookie and give him a chance to play." right. I wasn't making good contact. So I tried to try to stay in better, like I used to, and go with the pitch more especially to right." Lonnie's double went to left-center, his double to right-center. Smith also has been taking extra batting practice, lots of it, in an effort to again fill the role of catalyst in the Cardinals' attack.

"Besides waiting on the ball more, after talking to (Manager) Whitey Herzog, I believe I have things worked out. I'm also relaxing more." Asked how important it was to the Cardinals that Lonnie Smith begin hitting well again, he said, "Well, we do seem to score more and become a more aggressive team when I am hitting well. But it's important for the whole team to be playing well, not just me." Smith said he never is bothered by those who ridicule him for falling and stumbling so often, especially when running the bases. He did it again Film for Dwloptng ond frinritifl ond otoio Willie's Image Has New Glow color nnts TECHNICSPANASONIC TRUCKLOAD SALE! Savings on receivers, turntables, tape decks, portables, video recorders, and morel (CMC) KTEREOCBITERJI FCR THE PRCE CF OM TOMTOM TO MAM 1 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH By Ron Rapoport C1982, Chicago Sun-Times MILWAUKEE For a moment there, it appeared that Willie McGee's 1982 season was destined to be remembered for his world-famous inside-the-park triple and for Howard Cosell's less-than-kind comparison of his face with that of the movie urchin, E.T.

This all changed with several decisive strokes in the third game of the World Series Friday night. McGee pumped two home runs into the right-field stands, and made one catch at the center field fence and another above the center field fence. He exited from the 6-2 Cardinals' victory over Milwaukee with four runs batted in and the respectful attention of even those who had previously come only to snicker. It was in the National League playoffs against Atlanta that McGee had his most traumatic moments. Though he had become a candidate for Rookie of the Year by hitting .296 after being called up from Louisville in May, McGee had his troubles in that three-game sweep.

There was a ball that got past him in center field, letting in a run last Saturday, a game in which he also struck out three times. This was hardly an improvement on his performance the night before, when the Braves' Claudell Washington slipped trying to field a ball McGee had hit int6 the right-field corner. With the ball bouncing free, the speedy McGee should have been able to run around the bases without breathing hard. But he missed his coach's sign and pulled up at third. "I'm a rookie," McGee said.

"I'll make mistakes. I'm just glad I scored. At the beginning of the game, especially that first game of the playoffs, I had too many things running through my mind. It was hard to settle down." It was during the Atlanta series that attention was focused on McGee's thin angular face and prominent cheeckbones. Displaying his customary sensitivity, Cosell made the comparison Vith E.T.

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UPI i. I 1 Wifiie McGee, and Lonnie Smith are happy Cardinals after Friday night's World Series game..