With the series back in KC, the Royals were looking to turn the tides. Cy Young Winner
Bret Saberhagen took the mound and kept Toronto scoreless for 4 innings.
In the meantime, George Brett started off the game with a home run to make it 1-0
and then hit a double and scored in the 5th. The Blue Jays who were having trouble
against Saberhagen got all over him in the 5th, scoring 5 runs to take a
5-2 lead but Jim Sundberg would come back with a blast in the bottom of the inning
to keep it within 2 runs. In the 6th George Brett came on with Willie Wilson
on 1st and slammed his 2nd homer of the game to tie it up at 5. Brett who now
had a double and 2 homers led off the 8th with a single and then came home on
a couple of ground outs and a single by Balboni to win the ballgame 6-5. The Royals
were hoping that the tides had turned for them back in their home ballpark
but Tom Henke put an end to that by 2-hitting the Royals in a dramatic pitching
performance outdueling Charlie Leibrandt in a 3-1 win. Now up 3 games to 1,
Toronto called on Jimmy Key to came in to close the door on Kansas City and send
the Blue Jays to the World Series. In any other season, they would already have
gone because the playoffs had always been a best of 5 and the Blue Jays have
already won 3, but now being a best of 7... Toronto still had to win one more
game to go on to the World Series. Jimmy Key would face Kansas City's Lonnie Smith
in the 1st, and Lonnie would start it off with a double, a steal of 3rd and
then scored on a George Brett grounder...giving the Royals a 1-0 lead in the 1st...
and that was all they would need. They scored again in the 2nd and then Danny
Jackson took over on the mound, pitching a shutout for Kansas City as the
Royals won 2-0 in the 2nd straight pitching duel. The Royals couldn't get too excited,
they still had to win the next two games. One loss would end the season.
Luckily Gubicza was excellent in game 6. |