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...Royals can drop and kick the ball with the worst of them. By last week, the butterfingered Royals had committed 145 errors and ranked next to last in the league in fielding. Still, the Kansas City defense was strongest where it was the most important: on the pitching mound. The Royals have a trio of aces on their staff: Righthander Dennis Leonard (21-17), Lefthander Paul Splittorff (19-13), and then there is Larry Gura; the southpaw whom Manager Billy Martin dismissed from the Yankees in 1976 as a "loser." Joining the Royals, Gura ate a lot, took up weight...
...others do collapse, the Royals' professional hot dog waits in the bullpen: Al Hrabosky, known as the "Mad Hungarian," who is fond of stepping theatrically off the back of the mound to huff and puff himself up to what he deems his "rage point." So far this year, the enraged Hrabosky has saved 20 games that were slipping away...
Steve Carlton displayed remarkable dual performances on the mound and with the bat by retiring ten in a row, going the distance, and driving in four runs...
...need for four different Philadelphia pitchers and the power with which the Dodgers greeted each one seemed to keynote this contest, and unfortunately for the Phils, may keynote the entire series if they cannot come up with a mound humbler of some sort. Retread Dick Rutheven gets his chance against L.A. lefty Tommy John when the series resume in Philly tomorrow...
Larry Gura, the former Yankee hurler, did not look particularly overwhelming on the mound, giving up ten hits in seven-plus frames, but he managed to scatter the hits widely enough to keep the New York sluggers at bay until late in the game...