Visitor:
Home:
Date: October 2, 1984
ALCS Game 1
Scoring:
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
DET 2 0 0 1 1 0 1 2 1 8 14 0
KC 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 5 1
Visitor playmakers:
Lou Whitaker, Alan Trammell, Larry Herndon, Lance Parrish, Barbero Garbey, Darrell Evans
Home playmakers:
Jorge Orta
Network: ABC (KABC
Announcers: Al Michaels, Howard Cosell, Jim Palmer
Pregame: Yes
Postgame: No
Commercials: Yes (some are edited out)
Grade: Good
Notes: Big players
produce during big moments, and two of the Tiger’s bread winners, Jack Morris
and Alan Trammell, came up huge in game one to give the Detroit Tigers a 1-0
lead in their quest for a world championship.
The Tigers started things off early. Lou Whitaker led off
the inning with a single, and was summarily driven in by Alan Trammell on his
triple. A sacrifice fly by Lance Parrish put the Tigers up 2-0 without the
Royals even touching their bats.
The Tigers added a run in fourth on a Larry Herndon homerun,
and another run in the fifth as Alan Trammell struck again, hitting a homerun
of his own. Tram wasn’t done, because in the seventh, he drove in Lou Whitaker
on a single, his third hit of the game.
In the meantime, Jack Morris looked like his April self. He
cruised through the first six innings, and it wasn’t until the seventh inning
when the Royals finally tagged him for a run. He’d go seven innings, giving up
only five hits, the one run, and he struck out four.
One run singles by Barbero Garbey and Darrell Evans in the eighth put the Tigers up 7-1, and Willie Hernandez closed out the game by pitching two perfect innings. The Tigers would add one more run in the top of the ninth on a Lance Parrish homerun, but this game was over with after the Tigers batted in the first inning.
(Thanks to Brian at http://www.1984tigers.com/category/1984-diary/)
Look for Dom DeLuise selling NCR personal computers.
Thanks Jim!
Running time: 2:49 (2 discs)