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Kansas City Royals 4, St. Louis Cardinals 3 · 1985-10-19 to 1985-10-27 · 7 games · attendance 327,494 · season overview

◀ 1984 1986 ▶

Champion · 1st title

Kansas City Royals
Manager Dick Howser

Runner-up

St. Louis Cardinals
Manager Whitey Herzog

Series MVP

Bret Saberhagen

Ballparks

Busch Stadium II
Kauffman Stadium

Note

Decided in game 7

Games

#	Date	Away at Home	Series	Park	Attendance	Win	Loss	Save
1	1985-10-19	St. Louis Cardinals 3 at Kansas City Royals 1	0–1	Kauffman Stadium	41,650	John Tudor	Danny Jackson	Todd Worrell
2	1985-10-20	St. Louis Cardinals 4 at Kansas City Royals 2	0–2	Kauffman Stadium	41,656	Ken Dayley	Charlie Leibrandt	Jeff Lahti
3	1985-10-22	Kansas City Royals 6 at St. Louis Cardinals 1	1–2	Busch Stadium II	53,634	Bret Saberhagen	Joaquin Andujar
4	1985-10-23	Kansas City Royals 0 at St. Louis Cardinals 3	1–3	Busch Stadium II	53,634	John Tudor	Buddy Black
5	1985-10-24	Kansas City Royals 6 at St. Louis Cardinals 1	2–3	Busch Stadium II	53,634	Danny Jackson	Bob Forsch
6	1985-10-26	St. Louis Cardinals 1 at Kansas City Royals 2	3–3	Kauffman Stadium	41,628	Dan Quisenberry	Todd Worrell
7	1985-10-27	St. Louis Cardinals 0 at Kansas City Royals 11	4–3	Kauffman Stadium	41,658	Bret Saberhagen	John Tudor

The players

Kansas City Royals

Batting	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG
Willie Wilson	7	30	2	11	0	1	0	3	1	4	3	.367
Frank White	7	28	4	7	3	0	1	6	3	4	1	.250
George Brett	7	27	5	10	1	0	0	1	4	7	1	.370
Lonnie Smith	7	27	4	9	3	0	0	4	3	8	2	.333
Steve Balboni	7	25	2	8	0	0	0	3	5	4	0	.320
Jim Sundberg	7	24	6	6	2	0	0	1	6	4	0	.250
Buddy Biancalana	7	18	2	5	0	0	0	2	5	4	0	.278
Pat Sheridan	5	18	0	4	2	0	0	1	0	7	0	.222
Darryl Motley	3	11	1	4	0	0	1	3	0	1	0	.364
Bret Saberhagen	2	7	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	.000
Danny Jackson	2	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	.000
Charlie Leibrandt	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.000
Lynn Jones	3	3	0	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	.667
Jorge Orta	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.333
Dane Iorg	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	.500
Buddy Black	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000
Hal McRae	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000
John Wathan	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000

Pitching	G	GS	W–L	SV	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
Bret Saberhagen	2	2	2–0	0	18.0	11	1	1	1	10	0	0.50
Charlie Leibrandt	2	2	0–1	0	16.1	10	5	5	4	10	0	2.76
Danny Jackson	2	2	1–1	0	16.0	9	3	3	5	12	0	1.69
Buddy Black	2	1	0–1	0	5.1	4	3	3	5	4	2	5.06
Dan Quisenberry	4	0	1–0	0	4.1	5	1	1	3	3	0	2.08
Joe Beckwith	1	0	0–0	0	2.0	1	0	0	0	3	0	0.00

St. Louis Cardinals

Batting	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG
Willie McGee	7	27	2	7	2	0	1	2	1	3	1	.259
Tom Herr	7	26	2	4	2	0	0	0	2	2	0	.154
Tito Landrum	7	25	3	9	2	0	1	1	0	2	0	.360
Jack Clark	7	25	1	6	2	0	0	4	3	9	0	.240
Terry Pendleton	7	23	3	6	1	1	0	3	3	2	0	.261
Ozzie Smith	7	23	1	2	0	0	0	0	4	0	1	.087
Cesar Cedeno	5	15	1	2	1	0	0	1	2	2	0	.133
Darrell Porter	5	15	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	5	0	.133
Andy Van Slyke	4	11	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	.091
Tom Nieto	2	5	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	0	.000
John Tudor	3	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	.000
Brian Harper	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	.250
Danny Cox	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.000
Mike Jorgensen	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
Joaquin Andujar	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000
Steve Braun	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
Ivan de Jesus	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
Ricky Horton	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000
Todd Worrell	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000

Pitching	G	GS	W–L	SV	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
John Tudor	3	3	2–1	0	18.0	15	6	6	7	14	1	3.00
Danny Cox	2	2	0–0	0	14.0	14	2	2	4	13	0	1.29
Ken Dayley	4	0	1–0	0	6.0	1	0	0	3	5	0	0.00
Todd Worrell	3	0	0–1	1	4.2	4	2	2	2	6	0	3.86
Ricky Horton	2	0	0–0	0	4.0	3	2	2	5	5	0	4.50
Bill Campbell	3	0	0–0	0	4.0	4	1	1	2	5	0	2.25
Joaquin Andujar	1	1	0–1	0	4.0	9	4	4	3	3	1	9.00
Jeff Lahti	3	0	0–0	1	3.2	10	6	5	0	2	0	12.27
Bob Forsch	2	1	0–1	0	3.0	6	4	4	1	3	0	12.00