Visitor: Kansas City Royals

Home: Philadelphia Phillies

Date: October 14, 1980

World Series Game 1

Scoring:

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E

KC 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 6 9 1

PHI 0 0 5 1 1 0 0 0 x 7 11 0

Visitor playmakers:

Amos Otis, Willie Aikens

Home playmakers:

Bob Boone, Lonnie Smith, Bake McBride

Network: NBC (WMAQ Chicago)

Announcers: Joe Garagiola, Tony Kubek, Tom Seaver

Pregame: Yes

Postgame: No

Commercials: No

Grade: 90/100.

Notes: Philadelphia came back from a 4-0 deficit to win a 7-6 thriller. Twenty-game winner Dennis Leonard was unable to survive the Phillies five-run third inning. Bob Walk, the first rookie to start a World Series game since 1952, was the winner. Tug McGraw snuffed out a late rally to earn the save. The Royals struck early as Otis homered in his first World Series at-bat in the second inning. KC made it 4-0 via an Aikens two-run homer in the third. The Phillies came to life with five runs on four hits and a walk in the third inning. The big blow was a two-out, three-run homer by Bake McBride. Aikens homered again in the 8th.

Thanks Richard!

Running time: 2:43 (2 discs)