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Highlights:
The hometown Royals, competing in their last game of the season,
took it to Twins starter Joe Niekro early and often, knocking him
out of the game with only one out in the second inning with a walk
to Tartabull, a single by Frank White, a double by Jim Eisenreich,
another walk, a sac fly by Jamie Quirk, another single, a wild
pitch, and another walk. For his trouble, Niekro suffered his
next-to-last loss of his long and largely successful career,
before retiring the following season after pitching only 11 2/3
innings. Puckett had two hits in the game to end the season with
207 hits, while Kevin Seitzer also notched two hits to likewise
end the year with a total of 207 hits. For the second straight
year, we saw Royal pitcher Mark Gubicza throw a complete game
victory for the Royals, giving up eight hits over nine innings,
one earned run, and striking out four while walking none, to
improve to 13-18 on the year. Umpires Durwood Merrill and Rich
Garcia led the crew of arbiters. |