European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 21, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                April 1985 the stars and stripes Page 21 sports Dantley lifts jazz Over rockets from press dispatches Houston Adrian Dantley scored 34 Points and Thurl Bailey added 25 Friday night to Lead the Utah jazz to a 115101 Victory Over the Houston rockets in their opening National basketball association playoff game 2 of the Besto five series is Houston trailed by 19 Points but tied the score at 71 with left in the third the jazz built its Lead Back to 8176 entering the final they outscored the rockets 123 to take a 9379 Lead with just Over eight minutes the closest Houston came thereafter was nine Ralph Sampson led Houston with 26 Points before fouling Utah led 6043 at halftime but the rockets started the third period with a 142 run to Cut the jazz Lead to 6257 with to Utah built its Lead to 10 on Baileys the Rock ets reeled off 10 straight Points Rodney Mccray with five and Sampson with four to tie it at the jazz responded with eight straight Points four by Dantley to go up the teams exchanged baskets and Sampson ended the period with a 40footer to draw the rockets to 81 Darrell Griffith and Rickey Green each scored four royals hit 5 beat tigers by the associated press Detroit everyone in baseball knows that Tiger stadium is a Good Park for Home run unfortunately for the it was the opposition that took advantage of the dimensions Friday you anytime you hit a Ball to right Field in this Ballpark where the Fence is Only 325 feet Down the you expect something to Kansas City Al Roundup manager Dick hawser said after watching his royals slug five Home runs including two by George Brett in a 92 Victory Over the i know on the second Ball George everybody on our Bench stood Hows or they expected it to go in and they wanted to see coming into the the royals had hit Only three homers All their five tied a club record set on two other Occa it was the second successive defeat for the who won their first six royals Darryl Steve Balboni and Jim Sundberg also hit in the two innings he Dan Petry who beat the royals just last sunday was tagged for six he gave up five walking one and striking out 1 had Good Petry they hit my pitch in the first in the second i made a couple of mis after i think manager Sparky Anderson had seen Bret who was 31 against the tigers last improved his record to 11 for the season All against he pitched 6v4 innings the shortest stint by a Kansas City Pitcher this year and didst allow a he fanned White sox red sox 1 Chicago Carlton Fisk and Luis Salazar cracked two run homers and Rudy Law and Harold Baines hit Solo shots to Lead Chicago Over Boston behind Britt i Aba playoffs Points to spark the jazz at the Start of the final period and Utah forged ahead by Houston started the game Strong inside with Sampson grabbing seven rebounds and the rockets pouring in eight dunks to Bolt to a 2213 the rockets Lead was Cut to six with minutes left before Utah out scored Houston 82 to tie it at 28 entering the second the jazz continued to reeling off 10 straight Points and outscoring Houston 226 in the first eight minutes to take a 5034 Simpsons free throw with showing Cut utahs Lead to 13 but Jeff Wilkins hit a 15footer and Dantley dropped in a pair of Field goals to give the jazz its biggest Houston trimmed that to 6043 at in fridays other playoff game Bucks bulls 100 Milwaukee Sidney Moncrief scored 30 Points and held Rookie Michael Jordan to four second half leading Milwaukee past game 2 of the Besto five series is sunday in Milkau named the nabs top defensive player last pressed Jordan full court and harassed the Rookie throughout the second Jordan finished with 23 five below his and had no Field goals in the second Terry Cummings added 22 for the Alton Lister and Paul Mokeski both scored 13 and Paul Pressey Quintin Dailey scored 25 to Lead the Orlando Wooldridge had the leagues top defensive outscored Chicago 134 to take a 9582 Lead with the closest the bulls came after that was 105100 on Wool Bridges shot with 35 seconds Chicago led 6058 with left in the third Jordan was held scoreless the rest of the third period As Milwaukee took an 8073 Lead going into the final Peri Jordans Only second half Points came on four fourth period free Moncrief scored 23 first half Points to Lead Milwaukee to a 5854 halftime the Bucks biggest Lead of the first half was 4737 with the Victory was the 17th straight at Home and the fourth in a Row for the Bucks Over the bulls at Milkau the 30 at Home against Milwaukee this finished the regular season 21 games behind the Bucks in the Central a photo Bostons Mike easier Dodges a Brush Back pitch in the red game at easier got up and struck the White sox won walked one and struck out seven in his first Complete game since last Mike was the Back in his first season with the White Fisk hit a dramatic three run Homer in the eighth inning of the season opener to defeat he has since hit 15 homers against the red including his two run shot in the first inning to stake Burns to a rangers Brewers 1 Milwaukee Toby Harrah singled three times and drove in the winning run to Back the combined five hit pitching of Dave Rozema and Dave Stewart in leading Texas Over the rangers snapped a 11 tie in the eighth inning against reliever and loser Ray As Harrah base hit knocked in the godhead Gary Ward followed with an rib single to score Wil and Harrah came Home on an in Field single by buddy Blue jays orioles s Toronto bar Fields three run Homer capped a four run sixth inning powered Toronto to a comeback thet Urhin rally wiped out a 41 Baltimore then Ernie Whites rib single in the eighth provided the Blue jays with their eventual winning that offset a Pinch Home run by Baltimore Larry sheets in the his Rookie Fritz Connally grand slam in the fifth inning provided the orioles with a 40 Lead before the Blue jays started their indians Yankees 1 new York Julio Franco hit a Homer in the first and Neal Heaton and Tom Waddell made it stand ending the Yankees fou game winning scattered eight hits in 74 walked one and struck out one for the who have won three of their last four games after losing both games of a two game weekend series to the Yan Waddell gave up a two out double to Butch Wynegar in the Yankee but got Rookie Scott Bradley to line out to first to end the Oakland Dwayne Murphy and Mike Heath hit Home runs in the fourth inning to erase a Minnesota and Oakland went on to beat the twins behind the combined four hit pitching of Chris Codiroli and Jay the As won their fifth straight Matching their Best Streak of last the twins suffered an eighth straight de with Pitcher Frank Viola taking the loss on his 25th birthday despite pitching a Complete game allowed Only one hit after the second when the twins scored both their Howell pitched the ninth for recording his fourth save in his last four Angels mariners 1 Rod Carew stroked a pair of rib singles and right hander Ron Romanick scattered 10 hits As California downed Seattle for the Angels fourth straight completed his first game of the walking three and striking out Mike retired the first nine men he faced before the Angels took charge with three runs in the fourth and three More in the Carew had rib singles in each