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Keith Moreland, Center fielder Bobby Dernier and Shortstop Larry Bowa. "The problem was bringing them together," said Field Manager Jim Frey, "getting them to think of themselves not as ex-somethings-or-other but as Cubs, and proud to be Cubs." Frey, who came along this year when Chicago moved up from fifth, had managed Kansas City against Philadelphia in that '80 series, then was rather briskly fired. Evidently Green knew where a lot of winners were...
...delayed legacy of the old team that went out together was this young team that grew up together, and grew up in the major leagues. Strength through the middle is baseball's eternal ideal, and the model today is the Tigers' Catcher Lance Parrish, Shortstop Alan Trammell, Second Baseman Lou Whitaker and Centerfielder Chet Lemon. Probably it has to do with the nature of runaway races, but none of them seems quite as considerable now as he did in the spring or even last year. Trammell hit over .300 but missed more than 20 games without being missed...
...closest Kansas City came to scoring was in the second, and it would have been a tainted run. With two out, Steve Balboni walked and was running on a full-count pitch that Frank White popped into short left field. Shortstop Alan Trammell and center fielder Chet Lemon both called for the ball and each backed off before Lemon caught it in the tip of his glove...
Castillo then hit a bouncer to shortstop Onix Conception, who threw to second baseman White to force Evans at second. But White's relay to first was a shade late as Lemon scored the game's only...
Baltimore's Cal Ripken set an American League record for shortstop with five assists for a total of 575, breaking Roy Smalley's record of 572 with Minnesota...