Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is seeking a $1.5 billion stake in President Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative as Britain’s price for taking part in the program, government sources said in London. They said that Defense Secretary Michael Heseltine will formally ask his U.S. counterpart, Caspar W. Weinberger, for a guaranteed British share in the program, also known as “Star Wars.” They are to meet in Brussels on Tuesday and Wednesday. Washington, fearing protectionist complaints, has been reluctant to grant any foreign country a guaranteed slice of “Star Wars” contracts.
West German leftists protesting a rally by Waffen SS veterans of World War II broke into court offices in Hamburg, smashing windows and throwing documents into the street. The protesters apparently were angry because the courts and city officials had not banned the rally, held by veterans of the combat branch of the SS, Adolf Hitler’s elite force. Later, demonstrators smashed windows at the Dutch Consulate in Hamburg. Officers said they thought the latter incident was related to the death in police custody of a Dutch demonstrator in Amsterdam.
West Germany’s radical Greens party approved plans to join a coalition government in the state of Hesse. When the new government is sworn in next month, it will mark the first time that an ecologist party has joined a government in Western Europe. At a tumultuous special congress in Neu Isenburg, a suburb of Frankfurt, a majority of about 3,000 delegates spurned an appeal from the party’s national leadership and approved a milestone coalition agreement that would give industrial Hesse a Green environment minister. “Our decision today will decide the future of the entire Green movement,” predicted Hubert Kleinert, a Green member of the state legislature and a coalition proponent.
Sicilian prosecutors let it be known today that they were looking into the United States interception of an Egyptian plane carrying four Palestinians charged with hijacking the cruise liner Achille Lauro. The prosecutors, in the city of Syracuse, are reportedly seeking to determine what happened when American and Italian soldiers faced off after the plane landed at the Sigonella military base near Catania, Sicily. The state television network, RAI, said the investigators were interested in the “initial refusal” of American soldiers to hand over the plane and its passengers to the Italian authorities.
A major art theft in Paris took place at the Marmottan Museum. Robbers, holding nine unarmed guards and 40 visitors at gunpoint, took nine of the museum’s most valuable Impressionist paintings, including five Monets and two Renoirs. At least five armed gunmen took part in the holdup that lasted about five minutes. They escaped in a car. It was the first time in France that museum artworks were stolen at gunpoint, the curator who oversees the museum said.
Israeli Air Force jets attacked Palestinian guerrilla bases in the Bekaa region of eastern Lebanon today, the Israeli military reported. There were no immediate reports on casualties in the raid, the 13th against guerrilla bases in Lebanon this year. An Israeli military spokesman, in a communique, said the aircraft had made direct hits on their targets and had returned safely to base. The communique, quoted in a report by the Israeli radio that was monitored here, said the jets had attacked two bases belonging to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, which is led by Ahmed Jabril.
Jordan faces a political morass if King Hussein dropped Yasser Arafat from his peace initiative, Palestine Liberation Officials believe. They doubt that King Hussein’s uneasy alliance with the Palestine Liberation Organization would survive the exclusion of its leader from the peace talks. A confrontation between the King and Mr. Arafat is expected Monday when they meet in Amman. The P.L.O. leader is expected to get a “shape up” ultimatum.
Israel’s peace overture to Jordan was debated by its fragile national unity Cabinet, but the Government appeared to be in no immediate danger of falling apart over the issue. A senior Cabinet official said that only if Jordan was to “respond positively” to the overture by Prime Minister Shimon Peres would there be a real chance of the year-old coalition Government collapsing over how to proceed in negotiations. Concern over the safety of U.S. bases in the Philippines is increasing in Washington along with growing anxiety about the stability of the Government of President Ferdinand E. Marcos. Two recent intelligence studies for Congress warning that the political and military situation in the Philippines is deteriorating have coincided with the Pentagon’s plans to spend $1.3 billion on improvements at the Subic Bay Naval Base and Clark Air Base and public remarks by American officials about contingency plans to move the bases.
Prime Minister Mir Hussein Moussavi of Iran introduced his proposed Cabinet to Parliament today and emphasized the religious and revolutionary credentials of its 24 members. Iran’s official Islamic press agency reported Mr. Moussavi’s comments as Parliament opened debate on nominations to the Cabinet at the start of the second term of Mr. Moussavi and the President, Hojatolislam Ali Khamenei. The agency, monitored in Nicosia, quoted Mr. Moussavi as saying Ali Akbar Mohtashami, the proposed Interior Minister, was a religious figure noted for his work with the Party of God, in Lebanon. The Party of God is one of the most radical Shiite Moslem groups in Lebanon. The agency quoted Mr. Moussavi as saying the proposed Minister of Culture and Higher Education, Mohammed Farhadi, was one of the Party of God figures at Tehran University. He referred to former Oil Minister Mohammed Gharazi, nominated to become Minister of Post and Telephone, as “one of the most revolutionary figures of the country.”
The official Afghan radio said today that rebel missiles had hit the main mosque in the western town of Herat, killing 14 people and wounding 78. The radio, monitored in Islamabad, did not say when the attack took place. Quoting the official Bakhtar press agency, it said two ground-to-ground missiles were fired into the mosque at afternoon prayer time. It attributed the attack to “counterrevolutionaries,” the official term for Muslim guerrillas fighting the Soviet-backed Afghan Government, and said they were taking orders from “Pakistani generals, the region’s reactionaries and world imperialism headed by American imperialism.”
Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi returned from a two-week overseas trip tonight after a stop in Moscow, scheduled at the last minute, that was widely interpreted as an effort to buttress India’s ties with the Soviet Union. Mr. Gandhi met for an hour and a half on Saturday with Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, according to Indian news reports. Aside from an interpreter, no one else was present. The Prime Minister was in the Netherlands on Saturday and scheduled his trip to Moscow only hours before he was due to leave. At an impromptu news conference tonight, Mr. Gandhi said he had found once again that India and the Soviet Union had “similar views on many issues,” while he continued to disagree with the United States on many points. Among the differences, he said, were those over Pakistan’s nuclear program, United States policies toward South Africa, Washington’s approach to arms talks with Moscow and American plans to produce a space-based missile defense system.
China reported that a sweeping military reorganization has reduced the number of senior officers in its 11 regional commands by more than 50%. These commands have been merged into seven units, the official New China News Agency said. It added that the shuffle has resulted in a 24% cut in the number of ranking officers at the People’s Liberation Army general staff headquarters and in its political and logistics departments.
An Argentine judge freed the last of seven men jailed in a suspected right-wing plot to overthrow President Raul Alfonsin, but government lawyers quickly won a federal court appeal clearing the way for the re-arrest of three of the men under a state of siege imposed last week. The Interior Ministry said the appeals court reserved judgment on the government’s request to arrest the four others. Those who will be re-arrested, the Interior Ministry said in a statement, are Col. Pascual Guerreri, the army’s deputy chief of intelligence; Capt. Leopoldo Cao, an instructor at the military’s school, and Horacio Daniel Rodriguez, a rightist newspaper columnist for the La Prensa newspaper.
Southern Sudanese rebels attacked a Nile steamer despite a cease-fire, killing 14 soldiers, Defense Minister Osman Abdallah Mohammed said today. One civilian was wounded in the attack on Saturday and five people were missing, the official Sudanese press agency quoted the minister as saying.
For the first time since independence 24 years ago, the people of the East African nation of Tanzania voted for a presidential candidate other than Julius K. Nyerere, who is retiring voluntarily. Nyerere has picked Ali Hassan Mwinyi, former leader of Tanzania’s semiautonomous island of Zanzibar, to succeed him. Almost 7 million people were eligible to cast “yes” or “no” ballots for Mwinyi.
Fifty-two U.S. corporate leaders with interests in South Africa pledged in a Johannesburg newspaper advertisement to “play an active role” in ending apartheid. The ads, by the U.S. Corporate Council on South Africa, were signed by the council’s co-chairmen-former Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal, chairman of the Burroughs Corp., and General Motors Chairman Roger B. Smith. Similar to ads placed in U.S. papers, they endorsed a recent initiative by 91 South African industrialists who urged an end to racial discrimination.
At least six blacks were killed in some of South Africa’s segregated black townships during the weekend as confrontations continued between the police and black protesters. The Government, meanwhile, indicated today that it would prevent a group of clerics from traveling to Lusaka to meet with leaders of the outlawed African National Congress, the most prominent of the exiled movements fighting white minority rule. In a departure from the usual tactics used by black protesters, two officers were wounded when they came under fire in a segregated black township near Beaufort West in Cape province, the police said. Previously, black protesters have used stones and gasoline bombs to fight the police, and reports of guns being used by black protesters are rare. The police said it was not clear if a handgun or a rifle was used in the attack. The police were fired at six times earlier this month in Athlone, a mixed race suburb of Cape Town.
A tax reform bill this year is likely, according to members of the House and Ways Committee. They said they had broken the logjam and would be able to produce a bill this year. “I am more confident each day that we can produce a bill that will come very close to the President’s mark,” said the committee’s chairman, Representative Dan Rostenkowski, Democrat of Illinois.
Senator Warren B. Rudman (R-New Hampshire), calling the budget deficit the “most enormous” problem in U.S. history, defended his controversial mandatory deficit-cutting plan on an ABC television interview program, but Senator Bill Bradley (D-New Jersey) called it “a gimmick.” Budget Director James C. Miller III said he expects President Reagan to sign the measure if it passes Congress. The topic of controversy was the plan proposed by Rudman and Senator Phil Gramm (R-Texas) that would require Congress to pass a budget to reduce the deficit by a set amount each year until it disappears in the fall of 1990. If Congress failed to do so, the President would have the power to make spending cuts — excluding Social Security — to get the budget in line.
President Reagan returns to the White House from Camp David.
A Soviet seaman who jumped twice from a Soviet grain freighter into the Mississippi River off Belle Chasse, Louisiana, was back aboard the ship, while United States officials tried to determine whether he wants to stay in this country. Robert McFarlane, the White House security adviser, said the State Department wants to interview the seaman at a neutral site off the ship to determine his qualifications for asylum.
President Reagan orders the use of force to get the Soviet sailor who attempted to defect off of the Soviet ship in New Orleans, Louisiana.
State and local governments should consider expanding the kinds of property their law enforcement agencies may seize from suspected drug dealers, a study by the Justice Department said. “Forfeiture (seizure) laws make it possible to go beyond the seizure of illegal drugs and take away the profits and working capital of drug dealers,” said a study by James K. Stewart, director of the department’s National Institute of Justice. The study said that while state and local prosecutors and police rank drug traffic as their most serious enforcement problem, “use of forfeiture. . . is still relatively limited.” In 1983, the federal government, which has more expansive seizure powers than most states, confiscated more than $100 million in cash and property.
[Ed: Fucking goddamned asshole thieves.]
The U.S. Catholic Conference submitted a statement to a House subcommittee saying it opposes as “dangerous and unacceptable” Senate-passed legislation allowing foreign farm workers to enter the country temporarily to pick crops. Father Nicholas DiMarzio, executive director of the conference’s migration and refugee services, said the church was “adamant in its opposition… to all attempts to weaken the protections currently offered to the domestic agricultural work force.”
Chrysler employees ratified a labor contract worked out by the United Auto Workers that gives each of them immediate bonuses of $2,120 in recognition of the concessions they made during Chrysler’s 1979-1982 financial crisis. Approval of the three-year contract that ended a 12-day strike also provides for pay increases each year and wage-and-benefit parity with General Motors and Ford.
Exxon Corp. shut down its chemical plant in Linden, New Jersey, after a second release in six days of a hazardous gas, company officials said. Less than 100 pounds of hydrogen sulfide gas were released from the plant, triggering hundreds of complaints of the odorous chemical in New Jersey and New York neighborhoods, an Exxon spokesman said. No injuries were reported from the gas, which is said to be flammable and poisonous, and possibly lethal if inhaled. Exxon said the closure of the 200-acre plant was temporary.
Hundreds of American war veterans marched from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to the White House to honor American servicemen missing in action in Southeast Asia. The former servicemen, including many veterans from World War II, held a short prayer vigil near the black granite Vietnam Veterans Memorial before their mile-long parade, complete with two marching bands, set out for Lafayette Park across from the White House. Rally leaders expected to meet with White House officials concerning the American missing in Southeast Asia, now put at 2,446 by official count.
Artificial heart patient Thomas J. Gaidosh was “comfortable and relaxed” in a Pittsburgh hospital, and fellow heart patient Anthony Mandia continued progressing in a Hershey, Pennsylvania, hospital, although solid foods were dropped from his diet. Both men are awaiting human hearts after life-saving implants of artificial hearts. Medical personnel said Gaidosh, 47, spent a “quiet night” in the surgical intensive care unit and appeared “comfortable and relaxed.” Doctors said Mandia, 44, continued to progress in his 10th day with an artificial heart.
Two months after repair by spacewalking shuttle astronauts, an $85 million Navy communications satellite was launched toward high orbit today. Hughes Communications Company engineers in El Segundo fired the satellite’s rocket at 8:53 this morning. “It went spectacularly well,” said Albert Wheelon, a Hughes official. On Friday the Syncom 3 satellite will reach a point 22,300 miles above the Pacific. There it will remain, orbiting at the same speed as the earth rotates and staying in the same position relative to the ocean so that it can be used to reflect communication signals. Syncom 3 had failed to turn itself on after it was deployed from the space shuttle Discovery April 13. So on a later flight, astronauts installed “jump cables” and electronic boxes to bypass a failed electrical circuit.
The highest concentration of radon ever reported in the United States was found by Federal specialists when they switched on their monitoring equipment in a home in Boyertown, Pennsylvania. Since last January, when dangerously high levels of the radioactive gas were found in a house across the street, a state survey of 3,618 houses and other buildings in the area found that 1,417 buildings, about 40 percent of the area’s structures, had unsafe levels of radon.
The Food and Drug Administration says it will look into the safety record of a heart valve made by a company that has already recalled larger sizes of the same model. Studies by Shiley Inc. linked 14 deaths and seven serious injuries to failures of the company’s 60-Degree Convexo-Concave heart valves with diameters from 29 to 33 millimeters, said Richard Chiacchierini, an F.D.A. official. The company voluntarily took the valves off the market. Mr. Chiacchierini said Friday that the agency, at the urging of a consumer group, will study valves with diameters of 27 millimeters. He said there did not appear to be a problem with the smallest valves.
Hurricane Juan, with winds up to 85 miles per hour, moved north through the Gulf of Mexico today, swamping boats and oil rigs and stranding some 1,400 people in one Louisiana town as it lashed the shore and forced evacuations. A supply boat capsized in the Gulf of Mexico and left two people missing, while at least four other boats and two offshore oil rigs issued distress calls, but the hurricane’s high winds and heavy seas prevented Coast Guard boats and helicopters from undertaking rescue efforts, a spokesman said. The hurricane, upgraded from a tropical storm this afternoon, was southwest of New Orleans late tonight and was heading north-northwest. It was predicted to make landfall before dawn Monday, possibly along the south-central Louisiana coast, said Bob Case, a forecaster with the National Hurricane Center in Coral Gables, Fla. #2 Crewmen Rescued from Boat Two crewmen were picked up by a nearby boat after their vessel Miss Agnes capsized, and two crewmen were missing, said Petty Officer Thomas Peck of the Coast Guard. The vessel is used to ferry workers and supplies to offshore oil rigs. Hurricane Juan ultimately ravages the U.S. Gulf states & east coast, and 49 people die.
15th NYC Women’s Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:28:34.
16th NYC Marathon won by Orlando Pizzolato in 2:11:34.
Lou Piniella replaced Billy Martin as the Yankees’ manager. Piniella, a major league player for 16 years and the Yankees’ hitting coach since he retired in 1984, is the Yankees’ 14th manager in George Steinbrenner’s 13 years as owner.
NFL Football:
Anthony Carter begins an NFL streak of 100+ consecutive game receptions.
Jim McMahon threw two touchdown passes and Otis Wilson returned an interception 23 yards for a touchdown today as the Chicago Bears defeated the Minnesota Vikings, 27–9. It was the eighth consecutive victory for the undefeated Bears. McMahon hit Dennis McKinnon with a 33-yard scoring pass on the game’s opening drive and threw a 20-yard touchdown pass to Walter Payton in the fourth quarter. McMahon finished with 18 completions in 31 attempts for 181 yards. The Bears were leading, 13–7, early in the third quarter when Minnesota’s Tommy Kramer went back to pass. Richard Dent deflected the pass and Wilson gathered it in and went down the left sideline for the touchdown. The only touchdown for the Vikings (4–4) was set up by a 27-yard pass-interference penalty against the Bears and was scored by Darrin Nelson on a 1-yard run.
Eugene Daniel intercepted three passes and Wayne Capers, making his first start, scored on a 20-yard run and on pass receptions of 39 and 33 yards to lead Indianapolis (3–5) past the Packers, 37–10. Daniel also broke up a Green Bay pass at the Indianapolis 2-yard line and recovered a fumble that ended a Packer threat with less than 7 minutes remaining.
Behind a 112-yard rushing performance by John Riggins, Washington lifted its record to 4–4, beating the Browns, 14–7. The Browns (44) aided the Redskins’ cause with three turnovers in the first quarter, with the first two leading to Washington’s two touchdowns.
The Oilers downed the Cardinals, 20–10. Warren Moon hit Drew Hill with a 37-yard scoring pass midway through the fourth quarter, and Mike Akiu ran back a blocked punt 12 yards for another fourth-quarter score. St. Louis (3–5) led, 10–6, when Moon found Hill over the middle with a scoring strike. It gave the Oilers (3–5) their first lead with 12 minutes 29 seconds left. On the Cardinals’ next possession, the linebacker Frank Bush blocked a Carl Birdsong punt, and Akiu ran it in for the score.
Finally, after seven straight losses over eight years, the Jets defeated the Seattle Seahawks today. It wasn’t pretty, and it was nearly an “Oops, we did it again” loss. But, instead, the Jets emerged with a 17–14 victory that made them the American Conference East leaders at the season’s halfway point. The defense, spearheaded by Joe Klecko, churning up the middle from his nose-tackle spot, and Mark Gastineau, flying in from outside defensive end, held the Seahawks long enough for a final scoring drive led by Freeman McNeil and Ken O’Brien and some sure-handed receivers. That last drive was a thing of beauty for the beleaguered Jet fans at Giants Stadium, who spent so much of the day booing their team after the Jets twice lost the ball within 10 yards of Seattle’s goal line. The winning drive went 91 yards, and it showcased McNeil, who picked up 19 of his 151 running yards. It included a gritty catch by Al Toon, who had to fight off the feared Kenny Easley, and it vindicated O’Brien, who had been sacked seven times and often seemed unsure about where to throw the football.
In recent seasons, the San Francisco 49ers have always found the Los Angeles Rams to be a therapeutic opponent, especially in games played here. And from the way the current season was unfolding for the 49ers, they were never in greater need of help. With apparent disregard for the Rams’ fine defense and their best start in six years, the 49ers scored four touchdowns in the first half and won, 28–14, to reduce the distance between them in the Western Division of the National Conference. The Rams slipped to 7–1, as the 49ers evened their record at 4–4. The victory was the 49ers’ fourth straight over the Rams and fifth straight in Anaheim Stadium. Joe Montana, the 49ers’ quarterback, who has not quite resembled his usual Super Bowl self this season, played one of his better games, throwing for 306 yards — the most given up by the Rams so far — and three touchdowns before he left in the third quarter because of a sprained sternum (breastplate), an injury not considered serious. The 49ers also got a big assist from Roger Craig, who showed once again why he is one of the most versatile running backs in the game, and from three interceptions that stopped consecutive Ram drives in the second half.
The Giants wasted so many scoring opportunities today that they could have lost by three touchdowns. Instead, their running game was magnificent and Elvis Patterson and Leonard Marshall created big fourth-quarter turnovers, and with that they defeated the Saints, 21–13. The Giants have often let down against teams they should have beaten. And certainly the Saints were a team to beat because they started the day with a 3–4 record, they had lost their two previous games and they were giving up big yardage weekly. The Saints’ offense was nothing to boast about, either, especially against the Giants’ solid defense. In a 35-minute stretch from the first to third quarters, the Saints could not make a first down. Of their 232 yards in total offense, 77 came on a lastgasp touchdown drive. By then, the Giants had assured their victory. Coach Bill Parcells said the Giants’ running game was the best in his five years with the team. The Giants carried 49 times for 234 yards, and teams that achieve either of those figures seldom lose. Joe Morris and George Adams alternated at tailback, Morris gaining 104 yards in 20 carries and Adams 89 in 17 carries.
The Lions beat the Dolphins, 31–21. The fullback James Jones carried 36 times for 114 yards and a touchdown and Eric Hipple tossed three touchdown passes, one to Jones. Last Sunday, the Lions (5–3) beat the San Francisco 49ers, who played the Dolphins (5–3) in the last Super Bowl. Hipple, who completed 14 of 19 pass attempts for 239 yards, tossed a 6-yard scoring pass to Jones following a Miami turnover, and Eddie Murray kicked a 50-yard field goal in the first quarter. Hipple threw a 38-yard scoring pass to Leonard Thompson and a 30-yard touchdown to Mark Nichols in the second quarter as the Lions led, 24–14, at halftime.
The Patriots thumped the Buccaneers, 32–14. Craig James ran for two touchdowns and passed for another as the Patriots (5–3) bounced back from a 14–0 deficit. Tampa Bay still has not won this season. James, who threw an 11-yard touchdown pass to Tony Collins in the second quarter, rushed for 96 yards and scored on runs of 8 and 22 yards in the fourth period.
The Broncos routed the Chiefs, 30–10. Randy Robbins blocked two punts for the Broncos (6–2). The two blocks helped Denver pile up a 24–0 lead before the Chiefs (3–5) got so much as a first down. Two of those touchdowns came on short-yardage bursts by Gerald Willhite.
Ron Jaworski threw 32 yards to the wide receiver Mike Quick with 1:55 left to cap a three-touchdown, fourth-period rally, as the Eagles came from behind to edge the Bills, 21–17. The Eagles (4–4) trailed, 17–0, after three quarters. They drove 77 yards on 11 plays with Jaworski, unable to find a receiver, dashing 3 yards for a touchdown that made it 17–7 with 12:10 left in the game. Three plays from scrimmage later, the safety Wes Hopkins intercepted a pass by Vince Ferragamo and returned the ball 24 yards for a touchdown with 4:40 to go.
Jim Breech kicked four field goals and the Cincinnati defense forced six turnovers as the Bengals topped the Steelers, 26–21. The Bengals’ defense, ranked last in the league, had three interceptions and recovered three of seven Pittsburgh fumbles.
Danny White scored a touchdown and hit Tony Hill with a 35-yard touchdown pass to lead the Cowboys past the Falcons, 24–10. White, who sat out Dallas’s 16–14 loss to Philadelphia last week with sore ribs, completed 10 passes to Hill for 161 yards. White also showed some rust as three of his passes were intercepted. The Falcons (1–7) jumped to a 10–0 lead on Dave Archer’s 3-yard scoring pass to the tight end Allama Matthews and Mick Luckhurst’s 38-yard field goal.
Minnesota Vikings 9, Chicago Bears 27
Green Bay Packers 10, Indianapolis Colts 37
Washington Redskins 14, Cleveland Browns 7
Houston Oilers 20, St. Louis Cardinals 10
Seattle Seahawks 14, New York Jets 17
San Francisco 49ers 28, Los Angeles Rams 14
New York Giants 21, New Orleans Saints 13
Miami Dolphins 21, Detroit Lions 31
New England Patriots 32, Tampa Bay Buccaneers 14
Denver Broncos 30, Kansas City Chiefs 10
Buffalo Bills 17, Philadelphia Eagles 21
Pittsburgh Steelers 21, Cincinnati Bengals 26
Atlanta Falcons 10, Dallas Cowboys 24
1985 World Series, Game Seven:
A runaway victory in Kansas City by the Kansas City Royals over the St. Louis Cardinals in the seventh game of the World Series ended six months of public passion for baseball. The season’s total attendance for the two major leagues was 46,838,819.
One night after becoming a father, Bret Saberhagen tossed a five-hitter and got all the offense he needed when Darryl Motley homered to left off John Tudor in the second inning, after a walk to Steve Balboni. In the third, Lonnie Smith led off with a walk, and with one out George Brett hit an infield single. After a double steal, Tudor issued walks to Frank White to load the bases and Jim Sundberg to force in Smith, making it 3–0. Tudor was replaced with Bill Campbell after only 2 ⅓ innings. Balboni singled to left off Campbell to score Brett and White to make it 5–0. Tudor walked four and was charged with all five runs. In the dugout, he angrily punched an electrical fan, cutting his pitching hand.
The Royals blew the game open in the bottom of the fifth. A succession of five Cardinal pitchers allowed six Royals runs, five coming after two were out. Campbell gave up a single to Sundberg and was immediately replaced by Jeff Lahti, who allowed four hits to score four runs before being replaced by Ricky Horton. After Horton gave up a single to Brett and fell behind on the count 2-0 to Frank White, Herzog replaced him with Joaquín Andújar, normally a starter but pressed into relief. Andújar allowed an RBI single to White, increasing the Royals lead to 10–0. With Sundberg at the plate (the Royals had batted around), Andújar twice charged home plate umpire Denkinger to disagree with his strike zone. First, Denkinger called an Andújar pitch a ball. Herzog, who had been berating Denkinger for most of the game, rushed from the dugout to defend Andújar, and was ejected — reportedly after saying to Denkinger, “We wouldn’t even be here if you hadn’t missed the fucking call last night!” According to Denkinger, he replied, “Well, if you guys weren’t hitting .120 in this World Series, we wouldn’t be here.” It was the sixth manager ejection in World Series history; the others were in 1907, 1910, 1935, 1969 and 1976. ABC’s Tim McCarver mistakenly said it was the second, after 1969.
The next pitch was also called a ball to walk Sundberg, and Denkinger ejected Andújar, who then charged at Denkinger. It took three teammates to restrain him and get him off the field. Andújar was suspended for the first ten games of the 1986 season for his outburst. Although it has been rumored that Herzog sent in Andújar specifically to bait Denkinger, Herzog himself has said several times that Andújar was the only pitcher who still had anything left in his arm. After Game 5 loser Bob Forsch’s first pitch was wild to score Brett, he got out of the fifth-inning nightmare. He pitched a clean sixth inning and Ken Dayley kept the Royals off the scoreboard for the last two innings, but it was not enough as the Cardinals could not score against Saberhagen.
The Cardinals’ .185 batting average was the lowest for a seven-game World Series until the New York Yankees hit .183 in the 2001 World Series against the Arizona Diamondbacks. The Cardinals also scored only thirteen total runs — an all-time low for a seven-game series — scoring only once in the final 26 innings of the series. If they had held on for the win in Game 6, they still would have been outscored in the series 15–13.
This was Kansas City’s second major professional sports championship, joining the Chiefs’ victory in Super Bowl IV in January 1970.
St. Louis Cardinals 0, Kansas City Royals 11
Born:
Alexander Soros, American “philanthropist,” son of billionaire George Soros, in New York, New York.
Ty Nsekhe, NFL tackle (St. Louis-Los Angeles Rams, Washington Redskins, Buffalo Bills, Dallas Cowboys, Cleveland Browns), in Arlington, Texas.
Kyle Waldrop, MLB pitcher (Minnesota Twins), in Knoxville, Tennessee.
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