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...YORK--Willie Hernandez, whose near-perfect relief pitching played a major role in the Detroit Tigers drive to the World Series championship, yesterday was named the winner of the American League Cy Young Award as the league's best pitcher...
...combined that with a 9-3 won-lost record and a 1.92 earned run average as the Tigers coasted to the AL East crown, then went on to win the playoffs over Kansas City and World Series over San Diego. Hernandez saved the third and deciding game of the playoffs, then added two more saves in the World Series, in which he had a 1.69 ERA. The voting was based on regular-season performances...
Besides depth of pitching-Jack Morris, Dan Petry, Wilcox, Relievers Willie Hernandez and Aurelio Lopez-the Tigers seem to have a depth of depth. Their quintessential utility man, Marty Castillo, is listed as a catcher, though he is properly a third baseman who has played outfield and applied to pitch. With customary Third Baseman Tom Brookens rubbing a hamstring, Castillo has suddenly become a central character and beat out a double play in the second inning of the last game to furnish the essential run. He has a fine sense of mischief: "A few years ago, they came...
...trickery as evidence of a power struggle within the Sandinista leadership. An opposition politician asserted that Sandinista moderates had previously agreed to delay the vote in order to appease international opinion. This, he said, was reversed when Nicaraguan Interior Minister Tomas Borge Martinez and Planning Minister Henry Ruiz Hernandez returned from Eastern Europe two weeks ago. The moderates agreed not to delay the vote in return for the acceptance of the proposed Contadora pact. Their capitulation has angered the opposition, known as the Coordinadora, a coalition of political parties, businessmen and labor unions that has chosen Cruz to head...
...games without being missed tremendously. Whitaker slipped slightly both in the field and at bat. Lemon actually got conked on the head by a fly ball. Though he had 30 home runs, Parrish's average was under .240. For Most Valuable Player, Anderson has nominated Reliever Willie Hernandez, who had 32 chances to save games, and saved...