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The most bizarre subplot of the Series was provided in the second game by Brett, who had been suffering from hemorrhoids for several days and was forced to remove him self in the sixth inning despite borrowing a tube of ointment from Schmidt before the game. "A real pain in the ass," he quipped. "There's nothing you can do about it. The more I move, the more it hurts." With Brett's uncomfortable medical condition widely known, thanks to extensive media Philadelphia Phillies Tickets coverage, advice poured in from across the country recommending every-thing from potions to witchcraft as a cure. But the solution ended up being relatively simple: Brett stretched out over three seats on the Royals' team flight to Kansas City, and once there, checked him into the hospital for a twenty-minute surgery. Brett was back in the lineup for Game 3 and, remarkably, homered in the first inning to give the Royals an early lead. It was a game of frustration for the Phillies as they stranded fifteen base runners, a World Series record. Buy Philadelphia Phillies Tickets. Still, they managed to send the game into extra innings. In the top of the tenth, Schmidt hit a smashing line drive but it was right at Frank White, who turned it into a double play. In the bottom of the inning Willie Aikens, batting after an inten¬tional walk to Brett, punched a game-win¬ning single for Kansas City. Aikens was even more impressive the next day, clubbing two homers to give the Royals a Series tie. Schmidt had zero sacrifice bunts during the regular season, but the Phillies won the fifth game of the World Series because of his bunting skills and Philadelphia Phillies Tickets. Schmidt came up in the ninth with Philadelphia down 3-2, and Brett played in close at third base because Schmidt had already bunted twice in the Series. But this time Schmidt swung away, hitting a liner that Brett dove for but couldn't catch. That ignited the Phillies, who rallied for two runs to win the game.

Steve Carlton had led the National League in wins and strikeouts, and was exhausted after pitching a major league high of 324 innings. Still, Carlton took the mound in Game 6 to try to close out the Phillies' first-ever world championship. He got some offensive support from Schmidt, who had a bases-loaded single, and led 4-0 when he was relieved by Tug McGraw in the eighth inning. McGraw struggled, allowing the Rovals to load the bases with one out in the ninth. White represented the winning run but lofted a pop foul near the first base line. Bob Boone had trouble with it, but when it popped out of Boone's mitt, Pete Rose was right there to catch it before it hit the turf. McGraw then struck out Willie Wilson to end the game and give Philadelphia its first-ever Series title. Said McGraw: "01' Ben Franklin is somewhere having a couple of Irish whiskies and saying, `I'm with you, boys, I'm with you.'"
UNTIL THE 1983 WORLD SERIES, RICK Dempsey was best known as the part-time catcher who relieved the boredom of rain delays by sliding on his belly across infield tarps. A .240 lifetime hitter, he spe¬cialized in defense-he had to with that batting average. Dempsey scoffed when asked whether he thought he might get hot in the upcoming World Series. "I've never been hot at the plate," he said. As it happened, he picked a heck of a time for the first hot streak of his life. In addition to throwing out Joe Morgan twice on the bases, Dempsey batted .385, knocked five extra-base hits, and slugged .923 to give his Orioles the champi¬onship over the Philadelphia Phillies Schedule is availabe.

The Phillies were known as the "Wheeze Kids" because they relied on an aging nucleus of future Hall of Famers. They had won 90 games and defeated the Dodgers in the National League playoffs. We sell/buy Philadelphia Phillies Tickets. Steve Carlton, 38, won fifteen regular season games. Mike Schmidt, 33, led the National League with 40 home runs. To complement that duo, the Phillies had three sputtering remnants of Cincinnati's Big Red Machine: Joe Morgan, 39, who posted a .370 on-base percentage; Tony Perez, 41, who drove in 43 runs in part-time duty; and Pete Rose, 42, who was the starting first baseman. The Orioles, meanwhile, posted a winning record for the sixteenth consecutive season, the longest such streak in baseball. They had a strong pitching staff, but their two best players were infielders. Cal Ripken, the sophomore shortstop, batted .318 with 27 home runs, increased his fledgling consecutive games played streak to 280, and won the MVP award. First baseman Eddie Murray was second in the MVP voting after hitting 33 homers and driving in 111 runs.
It wasn't exactly a subway series, but it was close: Charm City and the City of Brotherly Love were only a one hundred-mile train trip apart. The Series started on a rainy night in Baltimore, as Philadelphia's John Denny faced Scott McGregor. Both men ' pitched a masterful game, but Denny was jut a bit stronger, winning 2-1. Mike Boddicker turned in an even more spectacular pitching performance for Baltimore in Game 2. allowing three hits but no walks or earned Philadelphia Phillies Tickets and runs while winning 4-1 to even the Series. Check out Philadelphia Phillies Tickets to watch them.