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...Jamie Quirk, who began the season as a bullpen coach in St. Louis, was vacationing in the Ozarks the week before last when Cleveland called for an emergency catcher. On the way there, he paused in Kansas City to roast retired Pitcher Paul Splittorff and informed Third Baseman George Brett, "You may have to give me a part of your playoff share because I'm going to beat Minnesota." A few nights later, with two outs in the ninth inning of a tie game, Quirk came to bat for the first time and hit a home run that crushed...
Improbabilities are losing their news value in Kansas City, where the baseball team so well-to-do for a decade, and so depressed last season, was advertised to be "in transition," and emphatically is. As Brett said, "When you hear transition, you think of rebuilding; when you think of rebuilding, you think of finishing sixth. The Cubs have been rebuilding for 39 years." On July 18, the Royals in fact were in sixth place (40-51), but to the easy encouragement of Manager Dick Howser they won 43 of the next 67 with a crowd of boy pitchers...
Again, the Tigers did what they had to do -- they shut down leadoff batter Whillie Wilson and Brett, the No. 3 hitter...
Wilson went 0-for-4. making him 2 for 13 in the series, while Brett went 1. For 4 and finished...
Wilcox symbolized the Tigers' efficiency, allowing just a fourth-inning single to George Brett and an eight-inning single to Don Slaught. Wilcox who did not complete any of his 33 starts this year, got a second-inning run on an RBI-forceout by Marty Castillo and made it stand up, walking two and striking out eight in eight innings. Hernandez allowed the final hit, an infield single by pinch hitter Hal McRae with two out in the ninth...