European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 21, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                April 1985 the stars and stripes Page 23 commentary weak pitches for slugger Guerrero they Tell stories Down in the Caribbean about Pete the mighty third baseman of the they Tell How he was walking Down a Road one night and came upon a poor trapped under Neath an overturned truck and who begged Guerrero to go for Pete just As soon As i lift that truck off they Tell of the time he was trying to prove to the Umpire that he had been struck in the biceps by a pitched Ball and the biceps were All right but the Ball was what was left of they Tell about the time he crashed into a Catcher at Home plate and it took a Blowtorch and two Crow bars to Cut the Guy to this they the Catcher has dodgers stencilled backward on his they Tell about How his body is so hard you could scratch a match or Cut Glass with any part of he want he was Hes so Strong that whenever he cant find a parking space for his Volks he just carries it around with when he goes they he should Wear rubber tires around like a so that he Doest smash things he bumps he could Bend a they Tell provided that he didst break it Hes probably the Only Guy in the lineup who Doest need that he could Homer without and so the stories Are All of Guerrero Doest even drive a some years when he first showed up in their Pedro Guerrero looked to the dodgers like the second coming of babe coming off a year in which he was comp of the world he hit 32 Home runs two years in a batted Over and knocked in More than 100 the dodgers began to wonder what they needed their expensive supporting cast Pete was a pen Nant All by so they began unloading High priced supporting such expendables As Steve Ron Cey and Dusty and replacing them with the meat of the lineups from san Antonio and i would Caruso need another Tenor All Pete had to do was make up for the loss of 660 lifetime Home runs and about 45 years of he began to see pitches you  throw to you even though baseball is not precisely a team game its More a series of Solo performances by the artists it does have its occasional teamwork for the More dangerous the lineup Gener up photo Pete Guerreros Home run production dropped in 84 there not going to let me beat them the better it is for the individuals in when Guerrero was batting behind in the Middle of a corps of batters that included Garvey and he got to see the kind of pitches you could bring Home to the kind you can when he began to be surrounded by triple types who could not be presumed to scare a major league he began to look at the kind of pitches that should be arrested for loitering sick scurvy dirt All Well outside the strike they were pitches that had Popup written All Over the Best pitch Pedro got to hit was usually Ball there is an axiom in baseball that says dont Ever let the big Guy beat you in a loosely it Means dont Ever give a Good pitch to a Henry Aaron or a Willie Mays any cleanup hitter with the game on the baseballs Book Calls for a Pitcher to throw any thing but strikes in that to walk if that is possible Only when big is surrounded by out men and other derogatory baseball terms for unskilled you dont take a Chance on walking the Batter when the next Batter is babe or Steve but when you have two unproven hitters from Al or a chorus of banjos following you can throw some pitches that Are right out of a Peoria very few lots of Gutter this is known As pitching around a dangerous play also known As taking the Bat out of his it is a Wellborn tactic in the deployment of a skilled it is a major frustration to a Man expected to carry Lead to the Pennant a Guerrero does not reason that the dodgers pay him a million dollars a year to draw Semi intention Nal or walks Are for Light hitting Lead off walks Are not for Guys who can lift trucks or walk through walks Are for Guys who bunt for not swing for i know whats coming up says i had pitchers Tell me there not going to let me beat there going to make the rest of the lineup do its hard to maintain a Pace of 32 homers a year on pitches that May Bounce on their Way to the or scrape your Belt buckle on the Way past Ball 4 is not your Basic Gopher Guerreros Home run production dropped in stars in a lot of professions resent sharing the spot they want All the closeups to or they work Guerrero is not hed be glad to share the Home run record with two or three costars if he could also share the Hes tired of doing a even Jesse James needed a Caruso an in a baseball sometimes it takes three to los Angeles times Murphys Bat keeps mauling astros by the associated press Dale Murphy wont continue his current Pace and finish the sea son with a 108 homers and 324 runs batted but Houston manager Bob Lillis might be hard to he likes to see us come to Lillis said after Murphy hit his sixth Homer and knocked in four giving him 18 in nine As the braves beat the astros 95 Friday Hes a Nice but Hes not very Nice to who had 10 homers and 24 Bis against the astros in has 17 hits in 35 a bats this Hes in a class by said Rick who benefited from Atlanta 15 hit attack to Register his third Victory without a his statistics in nine games Are like in Little league or High you just dont see Guys doing that in the major Murphy said he has no idea Why Hes hitting the Ball so i just dont he you sometimes dont have an explanation when you dont sometimes its just a minor but if you you hit or didst youd be Able to1 hit All the Murphy hit a run scoring double in the no Roundup fifth inning and a three run Homer in the he said he didst hit the Home run Ball although it went Over the Center Field Fence at the 402foot who allowed four runs and eight hits in eight also was helped by Rick crones two run Homer and a Solo shot by Rafael Cerone has 11 hits in his last 15 the braves took control with Cerone hitting his second Homer of the year in the second and Ramirez starting a three run rally with his Solo shot in the Atlanta added the other two runs on rib doubles by Murphy and Bob another Bright spot for the braves was the hitting of of injured Bob who had two doubles and a it was satisfying to come out and swing the Bat like we Horner in other National league games mets Phillies 0 Philadelphia new Yorks Dwight Gooden extended his scoreless in rings Streak to 17 with eight innings of three hit Keith Hernandez broke a 00 tie with Philadelphia with a two out Bloop single in the ninth Pinch hitter Wally Backman opened the ninth with a single off reliever Charlie and took second on a Sacri fice by cookie one out Hernandez lifted a single into Short right Field to bring Home the Only who shut out Cincinnati of four hits in his previous struck out seven and walked expos cubs 3 Montreal Pinch hitter Jim Wohlford three run Homer in the sixth inning helped Montreal hand Chicago right hander Rick Sutcliffe his first regu la season loss since last june who had won 16 straight Deci led 31 after Ron keys two run Homer in the top of the singles by Vance Law and Mike Fitzge Rald and a run scoring double by Tim Raines chased who was relieved by Ray Wohlford hit the second pitch Over the Loftfield Fence and the expos went on to end the cubs five game winning reds giants 2 Cincinnati Eric Davis tripled to trigger a two run Cincinnati first inning and singled Home the godhead run in the fourth As the reds beat san Francisco for their fifth straight the who have won 14 of their last 16 Home games against san fell behind 10 in the first on Jeff leonards rib but Davis triple and a groundnut by Pete Rose tied the consecutive doubles by Cesar Cedeno and Nick Esasky put Cincinnati ahead 21 later in the Manny Trillos single tied the game in the third for the Cincinnati regained the Lead in the fourth As Ron Oester took second on a sacrifice and scored on Davis cardinals pirates 4 Louis Vince playing in Only his second major league had four hits and knocked in two including a two out triple in the eighth inning that snapped a 44 Tom Nieto singled to open the Pinch runner Ivan Dejesus moved to Sec Ond on Ozzie Smiths setting up the game Winner by who also had an rib single in the third padres dodgers 2 san Diego Lamarr Hoyt scattered nine hits for his first no Victory and his san Diego teammates supported him with 14 hits against los the padres Jeave Hoyt All the support he would need with three runs in the first two of them on a base loaded walk to carmelo Martinez by dodgers starter Jerry and a wild