Show 88 Standard-Examin- Friday October 21 1988 er Sports Lasorda needed every trick OAKLAND Calif (AP) — act Tommy Lasorda’s stand-u- p has the Los Angeles Dodgers sitting on top of the world “One night during the I told my wife I had to go to a baseball function and she said I loved the game more than I loved her” Lasorda said “I told her she was probably right but I loved her more than football and basketball” Lasorda has more stories and than Orel Hershiser has speeds on his fastball Sometimes Lasorda is seen as the Santa Claus of baseball a jolly old fatman But in the World Series he was also jolly and very very quick The Dodgers beat the powerful Oakland Athletics in five games and Lasorda had to pull out every trick he had “Nobody gave the Dodgers any chance in spring training” Lasorda said “They said we couldn’t win the division and we couldn’t beat the Mets and we had too many injuries to beat the Athlet One of destiny’s darlings was Kirk Gibson the Dodgers’ Mickey Hatcher and Lasorda home run leader hurt his knee in gave him a chance to fulfill a the playoffs and could not start dream any games in the Series Hatcher was cut by Minnesota The Dodgers lost pitcher John in April 1987 and signed by the Tudor after four batters in Game Dodgers as a free agent 3 with an elbow injury and catchWhen Gibson was injured Laer Mike Scioscia (knee) and right sorda replaced him with Hatcher fielder Mike Marshall (back) also and the utilityman missed time responed with seven hits in 19 “This is an example to the Series including two howhole world of what you can do mers and five RBI if you really want it” said Lasor“Mickey HalcLer? I thought his da who has won six division tiname was Jimmie Foxx What a tles four pennants and two job he’s done We wanted Mickey World Series in 12 years as manHatcher to go in and give us that ager of the Dodgers spark” Lasorda said “After we “This is the greatest accomlost to the Mets in the ninth I plishment of them all” Lasorda asked him to take out the lineup said “We didn’t have all the talcard and he’s done it ever since” ent in the world but we believed The only game the Dodgers in ourselves If you want somelost came when Mark McGwire body to be an inspiration to peohit a homer off beleaguered reple who don’t believe in liever Jay Howell in Game 3 themselves then take a look at Lasorda came right back with this ballclub Howell in Game 4 and the “I can’t believe it happened — got the save striking this is a dream team — a team of out McGwire with the bases loaded in the seventh destiny” off-seas- at-ba- one-line- rs Press Associated Los Angeles Dodgers manager Tom Lasorda raises his arms in triumph Series his-tor- y” ers “It was a season we started hard from day one and just didn’t close the book at the end” The Dodgers last won the World Series in 1981 beating the New York Yankees in six games They are the only team with two World Series wins in the ’80s The A’s last won the Series in 1974 beat-- 1 ing the Dodgers in five Those were the A’s of Reggie Jackson Sal Bando and Rollie Fingers These were the A’s of Jose Canseco Mark McGwire and Carney Lansford But among this modem trio there were just five hits in 54 in the Series for an average of 093 and Lansford had three of the hits “The Dodger pitching shut us down” LaRussa "said “It’s the d story If you make the right pitches you can’t make much contact Most of it was Dodger pitching” And most of that pitching was Hershiser who was voted Most Valuable Player of the Series Her-- " shiser ended the season with the most remarkable at-ba- ts v age-ol- " e string of success in baseball history a record 59 consecutive scoreless innings breaking Don Drysdale’s mark of 58 Hershiser allowed three earned runs in the playoffs but he had a save and a win including a 0 shutout of the Mets in Game 7 In Game 2 of the Series he pitched a 0 shutout on three hits And he allowed only four hits two by Lansford in Thursday night’s clincher The Dodgers got two runs right away Thursday night With one out in the first inning Franklin Stubbs singled and Hatcher followed with a homer to left off Storm Davis Hershiser gave up consecutive hits for the only time in the game to start the third when Lansford and Tony Phillips each singled A sacrifice bunt got Lansford to third and he scored on a fly ball by Stan Javier making it 1 Mike Davis the Dodgers’ designated hitter made it 1 with a two-ru- n homer in the fourth and it was 1 after an RBI double in the sixth by Rick Dempsey who was catching for Scioscia In the meantime Hershiser was singing hymns to himself in the dugout between innings to try to re- 1- -2 6-- 1- -2 55-fo- ot 2-- 4-- 5-- lax “When you’re under so much pressure like this it’s almost like a spiritual experience” Hershiser said In the eighth inning Oakland scored a run with the help of a pair of walks and suddenly it looked like Hershiser’s spirit might finally be bending “I really hurt myself with the walks” Hershiser just didn’t want to come out of the game and fortunately Tommy left me in” Hershiser walked Phillips to start the inning and he went to second on a groundout Javier grounded a single up the middle that scored Phillips and said “I Costas’ remarks Bock motivated LA runs batted in Dennis Eckersley had 45 saves as the best relief pitcher in baseball They all became against a Dodger team carried by shock troops who replaced the regulars In the course of the five games catcher Mike Scioscia pitcher John Tudor and outfielder Mike Marshall all got hurt Kirk Gibson was injured before it started limited to one swing a From 5B Li OAKLAND Calif (AP) — While Tommy Lasorda used Bob Costas’ pregame remarks to motivate his Dodgers for Game 4 he isn’t angry at the NBC announc- er “Tommy is a master showman and a master strategist” Costas said Thursday prior to the start of the decisive fifth game “He’ll use anything to get his team pumped up” During Wednesday night's show Costas said the pre-ga- injury-pla- Dodgers gued were probably one of the weakest hitting teams in World Series history- After the Dodgers beat the Athletics 3 to take a 1 lead La3-- 4-- sorda said his players “went nuts” after hearing the remark in the clubhouse Costas said Lasor non-facto- Hershiser seemed to be operating in his own little world focused in on every pitch and every da and Dodgers pitcher Orel Hershiser came up to him before the hitter He insisted it wasn’t as game and said “Thanks for easy as he made it look “I feel like I’m climbing a psyching us up” mountain every time out” he Costas defended his critique of said the Dodgers’ offense pointing out That had to be the feeling of that Wednesday’s lineup had a the whole Dodger team decimattotal of 36 home runs this season ed by injuries limping along like compared with 42 for Oakland’s a unit of walking Jose Canseco Costas didn’t fault wounded won this Series They Lasorda for getting some mileage in time Otherwise they just out of the remark might have run out of players “If I were wearing a Dodger Going in the Dodgers were deuniform and somebody said that cided underdogs against an Oakabout me I'd sure try to prove land team that had won 104 them wTong ” Costas said games and swept Boston in four Oakland manager Tony LaRusstraight in the American League sa said he couldn’t figure out how playoffs Canseco had MVP credentials the Dodgers had time to watch run the pregame show which aired with the first base season in history live less than a half-hobefore McGwire had 32 homers and 99 the game started 40-ho- 40-stol- en ur dramatic ninth-innin- rs pinch g home run that won Game With Gibson out Lasorda was forced to turn utilityman Mickey Hatcher into a regular Limited to 191 during the regular season Hatcher responded magnificently leading the Dodgers with seven hits and five runs batted in four of them on a pair of n homers Mike Davis a dismal 196 disappointment during the regular season added another two-ru-n shot So Goliath was brought down by David again a team full of Davids in fact perhaps the least impressive lineup a World Series 1 at-ba- ts two-ru- North Ogden 16-- 8 30-ya- rd 2-- 3-- 1 WSC women sweep easy volleyball victory RENO Nev — Weber State made short work of Nevada-Ren- o in the two teams’ Big Sky Conference women's voiles ball match here Thursday night with the Lady Wildcats sweeping an easy 15-- 5 15-- 6 15-- 6 win Kelly Hankins had 14 and a 360 hitting percentage to Debbie Dingman and Tiffany help the Lady ’Cats improve to Francis each had a double for the 1 in Big Sky play and 22-- 6 Minutemen overall TH Bell upped its record to 2 while North Ogden dropped "It was a good win for us to to come back after the loss to Boise State (last Saturday)” said WSC Wildcats’ Rawstome Coach Cindy Fredrick "We knew we had to beat Reno in three drops tourney match games because now if we tie with ATHENS Ga — A1 Parker Boise (for the conference champthe No 3 seed defeated Weber ionship) it’s going to depend on State’s Lindsay Rawstome 7 the number of games we play and (7-4 4 Thursday at the the number of points we allow 1988 Volvo Tennis our opponents in the case of a Invitational held at the Universitiebreaker" ty of Georgia rent Big Sky Conference No singles champion 1 8-- NORTH OGDEN — The TH Bell Junior High School football team edged North Ogden 16-- 8 here Thursday Mike DeGroot accounted for both Minutemen touchdowns He connected on a pass to Aaron Morris for one score while returning a fumble 65 yards for the other TD TH Bell improved to 3 while North Ogden dropped to kills seven digs two blocks and a 462 hitting percentage for Weber State while Lora Heissinger had 10 kills four digs three blocks Losing pitcher Storm Davis of the Oakland reacts after being removed from the game in the fifth inning A’s champion has fielded in years Lasorda seemed awed by what these Dodgers achieved “This is the greatest accomplishment of them all” he said “We didn’t have all the talent in the world but we believed in ourselves If you want somebody to be an inspiration to people who don’t believe in themselves then take a look at this ballclub I can’t believe it happened” That destiny was molded by Hershiser and six magnificent weeks of pitching more than 100 innings a third of a full season’s workload in which he compiled an earned run average of 050 “I just never wanted to let down” he said “I always went pitch by pitch and never tried to think about complete games I never want it to be said that the streak stopped or I pitched badly in a crucial game The pressure was really great I never had time to enjoy it” Now he can and consider the unlikely World Series championship that it produced Gibson I From IB the Game or winning the MVP Nothing else made a difference to me” That rubbed off on his new club which had signed him as a All-St- ar free agent “He has really been the heart and soul of this ballclub” Hershiser said MVP ?sn From 5B in 1981 when LA beat the New York Yankees to win the World ZZ Series in six games “This one was a total team ef- fort” Scioscia said “We were a much better ballclub in ’81 but we were a better team in ’88 r “This is the best bunch of guys I’ve ever played baseball with in my whole life” Ski resorts selling Sports briefs Minutemen defeat 73-8- 9' ts Hershiser walked Dave Henderson on four pitches The next two hitters were Canseco and Dave Parker both representing the potential tying run Hershiser jammed Canseco with a fastball and he popped out to first “I did something with Jose that I don’t normally do late in a ball game” Hershiser said “I came in with a fastball I don’t normally like to come inside late in a game but with him sometimes you’ve got to surprise him to get him out” Hershiser struck Parker out with a curve “I got the second strike when he swung at a curveball so I tried it again and got him out” Hershiser said Lasorda had both Alejandro Pena and Jesse Orosco warming up and he was asked if he was thinking of a change “Before Hershiser pitched to Canseco and Parker I thought he was losing it” Lasorda said “Where he got it from I don’t know The Bulldog got it when he needed it” Hershiser worked a total of 42 innings in postseason pitching on three days’ rest and once making a relief appearance in between in the playoffs The five earned runs gave him a postseason ERA of 105 Taken one step further he has an ERA of 044 since Aug 30 when his record streak began “I can’t find the words anymore to describe what he’s done" Lasorda said “I saw it all I was there when he broke Don Drysdale’s record I could not believe anybody could continue that mastery like he did and then he takes it right into the playoffs and World Series” The A’s won 104 games during the season to 94 for the Dodgers But Oakland hit only 177 as a team for the Series to the Dodgers’ 246 6-- “This team has established itself in baseball Dodgers general manager Fred Claire said in a jubilant locker room “It will go down as one of the great storybook seasons all the way to the finish when it overcame injuries and beat two great outstanding teams” “I don’t think you can look at it as a total ' shock” A’s catcher Ron Hassey said of Oakland’s loss “The media all felt that we were such a great favorite but you didn’t give credit to the Dodg- fcol-laps- ed right-hand- er major-leagu- From 5B “I can’t say enough about Tommy Lasorda” Howell said “He has worked with the bullpen extremely well all year long' It wasn’t the first day things on us and it’s not the first home run I’ve ever given up Lasorda has shown a lot of confidence all year long He’s a tremendous motivator” in The Dodgers were 1986 and again in 1987 Their comeback to the top ranks among the best in the history of baseball and they’re only the seventh team to win the World Series following a sub 500 season Lasorda doesn’t like to tajce much credit for that “I never got a base hit I never struck anyone out I never stoic a base All I did was keep the team in the right frame of mind Keep them proud of themselves proud of their uniforms proud of their organization and keep them Re” lieving in themselves” Lasorda also told a few jokes along the way ics 3-- -4 6-- 5) Reno fell to ence and 5-- 7 in the conferon the season 2-- Weber State plays again Saturday night with another Big at Northern Arizona Sky-matc- TH Bell rallies to win 3 over N Ogden 14-1- NORTH OGDEN — The TH Bell Junior High School girls soft-ba- ll team scored five runs in the seventh inning to edge North Og3 here Thursday den 14-1- 6-- 6-- Rawstome stunned Parker who plays at the University of Georgia by winning the first set in a But Parker rallied to win the next two sets er The tournament collegiate players against each other Rawstome doesn't He faced the No Failla of Southern pits the top 32 in the nation The road for get any easier 4 seed Greg California to- day 12th regular-seaso- n grid game proposed CLEVELAND (AP) — Major colleges would be able to add a 2th regular-seaso- n football game to their schedule under a proposal approved this week by the Division Directors Association the group announced A majority of the 94 athletic directors who attended the association's annual fall meeting in Kansas City Mo voted to support the proposal which now will be presented at the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s convention in San Francisco in January 1 I-- A Five share lead in Pensacola Open GULF BREEZE Fla (AP) — Kenny Perry Lance Ten Broeck Mark Hayes Dan Pohl and rookie Billy Andrade shot lead 66's to tie for the in the $400000 Pensacola Open golf tournament first-roun- Rawstome a sophomore from Cape d'Agade Trance is the cur- - ' i d passes cut-rat- e Nordic Valley Powder Mountain and Snowbasin Ski Resorts are bucking a trend In a day and time when entertainment costs have risen the three local ski resorts are selling reduced rate season passes for their 1988-8- 9 ski seasons ving packages will be sold for a limited time Nordic Valley is offering a discount program that will save skiers $550 for each day visit and $5 per night Daynight season passes range from $150 for each first family member to $100 for the fifth and more family member Comparable evening-onl- y passes range from $75 to $50 respectively The reduced offer expires Oct 31 and was designed to offset an increase in daily rates to $1250 and evening rates to $10 Money-sa- pre-seas- Further information about Nordic Valley is available by call1 ing Patricia ilogge at Season passes and discount cards for Snowbasin have already 745-351- begun being sold at area ski shops and promotional locations passes for adults are sellfor $375 and $150 for chiling and senior citizens dren ages 65 and older prior to Nov 19 After that the cost of passes will be $425 for adults and $190 for children and senior citizens Discount cards are also being offered at a cost of $8 for adults and $4 for children through Nbv 19 After that date the cards ill $ be sold for $16 and $8 respectiveThe 1 1 ly Further information for Snowbasin can be obtained by calling 399-113- : 5 Powder Mountain's special promotions began in the summer and ended in early September However its reduced season pass will continue to be sold until November 10 Powder Mountain is scllinfan adult daynight pass at $375 Jhat normally sells for $420 Children can buy the rcgulprly ages 5-- priced $190 pass for $150 - |