European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 24, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday september 24, 1978 the stars and stripes Page 17 yanks lose in the 1 oth to tribe 8-7, As red sox now in 9th to Blue jays by Fred Mcmane up sports writer like a Fisherman who comes Back from be sea without a catch the Boston red of will curse the 1978 baseball season for in ones that got away. Once again Friday night the red sox a crumbed to the pressures of the Pennant ice and lost a game in the ninth inning icy should have won. As a result they Lew a Chance to move to within one game first place in the american league East cause their Arch rivals the first place new York Yankees lost to the Cleveland indians in 10 innings 8-7. Thus with Only eight games left to play Oston s chances of overhauling the de Riding world champions grow Slimmer. The red sox took a 4-3 Lead into the ninth ining against the Toronto Blue jays Only let it slip away when relievers Andy Assler and Bill Campbell failed to get the St three outs. With Hassler pitching in Relief of Bob Tanley a Surprise starter Pinch hitter of Bailor started the ninth by beating out High bouncer and one out later Dave Mckay blooded a single to left. Hassler Al Roundup Hen walked Pinch hitter Doug Ault to Load the bases and Rick Bosetti greeted camp11 with a game winning two run single. We got beat a Tough game that s All. E got beat a Tough game said a Dis untied Boston manager Don Zimmer. I lid when we came in Here we had to win Ery game. We still have to win every ame. We just did t Knock in runs when e had to. One bouncer off Home plate and be Blooper. It was the fourth one run loss for the red x on their Road trip and winning Pitcher pm Murphy an sex member of the red of Felt his old team showed signs of Ner mosness under pressure. They seem a lot tighter than the Anks said Murphy. I guess that s be Ause they had the game won and should ave won the game. They appear to be laying out of frustration. How can you explain it they were awesome and they re still awesome. I just on t know. Sometimes they remind me of exas. They blow so hot and so cold. Bos m s always been a team that scores 10 uns one Day and one the next. Maybe it s a ick of Speed. Kansas City does t lose y one run games. I Don t think it s thing. I la be a son of a gun if it s pitch g. They be got a Strong staff now. They Tad esome Good  Yankee manager Bob Lemon of course remained Cool about the Yankees loss. It was however a bit disheartening since new York rallied for three runs in the ninth inning to tie the score. It looked like nobody wanted it said Lemon. It would have been great to pull it out especially with Boston  Cleveland got a three run Homer from Andre Thornton his 32nd, and Solo shots by Wayne Cage and Danny Briggs but it was a run scoring single by Rick Manning off Rich Gossage in the 10th that drove in the winning run. Elsewhere in the Al Detroit beat Balti More 7-5 in 10 innings Milwaukee blanked continued on Page 18 whiff Mark Houston Astro Pitcher . Richard holds up the Ball with which he threw his 290th strikeout of the year to set a new National league record for strike outs in one season by a right handed Pitcher. The whiff came against Bob Homer during a game with the Atlanta braves. Up photo rip dodgers 12-3 for 8 j of Victory padres Clinch their first .500 year by Bert Rosenthal a sports writer the san Diego padres in fourth place in the National league West and Long out of Pennant Contention had something to Cele brate Friday night. The los Angeles Dodg ers the division leaders and in route to their second straight title did t. Why would san Diego with an unspectacular 81-74 record be Happy and los an Geles with a front running 91-62 Mark be glum the padres by thrashing the dodgers 12-3 with a 20-hit assault had amassed their biggest hit and run productions of the year and had assured themselves of at least a .500 season the first in their 10 year history. The dodgers by losing had their first place Lead Over Cincinnati sliced to 6va games while their Pennant clinching number remained at three. Slugging outfielder Dave Winfield in the midst of his Best major league season led the padres attack with a Homer three sin Gles and three runs batted in spoiling the 51st birthday of los Angeles manager Tom Lasorda. Winfield the padres Captain is opening a sports recreation Complex in san Diego called superstar  i want to set an example and yes be a superstar and have my Best season said Winfield who is hitting .307 with 23 homers and 96 Bis. I want to hit .300, to have 25 homers and drive in 100  the padres broke open the game with six runs in the fifth inning. Winfield started the uprising with his Homer and Gene Richards singled in two runs during the big no Roundup inning when the surprisingly bumbling dodgers made two of their five errors. It was just one of those nights said Lasorda. Everything they hit seemed to find a Hole. We got beat very  we know we re much better than that said outfielder Bill North. The record Speaks for  while the dodgers were losing their two closest pursuers were winning. Cincinnati beat the Atlanta braves 6-4 and the san Francisco giants eight games behind los Angeles blanked the Houston astros 2-0. In the Only other no game the Chicago cubs Defeated the St. Louis cardinals 5-3. The Philadelphia Phillies leaders in the 200,000 . Tournament no East by Ivy games were rained out against the mets in new York and second place Pittsburgh and Montreal were not scheduled. Reds 6, braves 4 the reds kept alive their slim Pennant Hopes rallying for three runs in the seventh inning two on Johnny Bench s single and one on Dave Concepcion s hit in beating Atlanta. Earlier Arturo defraites and Joe Morgan homered for the reds and Jeff Burroughs Gary Matthews and Bob Horner connected for the braves. I want to get no worse than second said reds manager Sparky Anderson. A lot of Guys could use the extra Money. Not everybody on this club is a  giants 2, astros 0 san Francisco s Bob Knepper took the league Lead in shutouts with five pitching a five hitter and striking out eight As the giants downed Houston. For Knepper 16-11, it was his 15th com plete game of the season and lowered his earned run average to 2.73. He helped his cause with a run scoring single. Cubs 5, cardinals 3 Chicago continued its Mastery Over St. Louis this season beating the cards for the 14th time in 16 meetings. The cubs Over came a 3-2 deficit with three runs in the ninth inning two on Bill Buckner s single and one on Dave Johnson s infield hit. Solomon Ashe gain net quarters los Angeles a sixth seeded Arold Solomon and seventh seeded armr Ashe advanced to the quarterfinals of $200,000 men s Tennis tournament with lord round victories Friday. Also gaining quarterfinal berths at Cla s Pauley Pavilion were a pair of needed players Cliff Drysdale of South of Ca and Jan Norback of Sweden. Elev nth seeded John Lloyd of England and us seeded Peter Fleming won third Niimd matches thursday. Solomon breezed to a 6-1, 6-2 Victory ver 16th-seeded Brian teacher but Ashe and a much More difficult time losing the St set to unseeded Terry Moor before allying for a 3-6,7-5,6-1 Victory. Ashe broke Moor s service in the second ame of the second set. Moor came Back Vith a service break in the ninth game but Ashe again broke service in the 12th game to win the set after trailing 40-love. Drysdale upset eighth seeded John Alex Ander of Australia 6-3, 3-6, 7-5 while nor Back ousted unseeded Ray Moore of South Africa 6-3,6-3. Quarterfinals were to be played Satur Day semifinals sunday and finals on Mon Day. On thursday Roscoe Tanner was upset by Lloyd 4-6,7-6,6-3. Tanner off target with his service hit Only 43 percent of his first serves and Dou ble faulted four times. His most disastrous double fault came in the tiebreaker of the second set when he was leading 4-3. His opponent went on to win the tiebreaker and Send the match into a third set. Lloyd although complaining of being tired from his flight from London had much better Luck with his service getting in 63 percent of his first serves. He did t play Well said Lloyd. He seemed to lose control and concentration after the first set. His serve was t Sharp. When i was Down 3-0 in the first set i did t feel i was in the match. My legs were  Lloyd has now beaten the sex Stanford University athlete three straight times and has lost to him Only once. Alexander seeded no. 8, was forced to go three sets to subdue countryman Ross Case 2-6, 6-3,6-4. In other thursday matches Drysdale whipped Allen Stone of Australia 6-1, 3-6, 6-3 teacher downed Tony Graham 6-0, 6 1, and Fleming ousted Kim Warwick of Australia 7-6,6-3. Majors set record at Gate will pass 40-million Mark new York up major league baseball has established a season re Cord attendance of 38,721,143 and will go Over the 40-million Mark by the end of the 1978 Campaign. Figures released by commissioner Bowie Kuhn Friday reveal that the clubs passed the previous season Mark of 38,709,781 thursday night. The 1977 count represented a 24 per cent jump Over the 1976 total. Six teams led by the los Angeles dodgers 3,227,431 figure have topped the 2-million Mark in attendance