European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 25, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse April 1985 the stars and stripes Page 19 commentary Mumm Are no Cinderella teams Here it was Mark Twain who some of my biggest worries never but major league baseball is not one of its biggest worries since the beginning of time has been that some unworthy team might one Day Wear the Mantle of look at the lengths baseball Guys went to guard against first of there was that it was 154 games no random sampling for when they picked a they wanted it to stand up in the when the league people thought they might decrease the number of games not it went to eight More then the baseball brass put in five game playoffs and the purists needed smelling the chances for a mediocre team on a Roll to eliminate a classier contender seemed limitless to never mind that this putatively classless squad had prevailed Over a 162game to get there in the first baseball was not like hockey or even Cinderella does not even make baseballs this is no Glass Slipper there Are no wildcard teams in baseballs super basketball plays 82 games to drive the ribbon clerks out then lets the ribbon clerks Back Only three of 11 teams Are eliminated in one Only four of 12 in fourth place teams have won the in the Stanley cup is a and foot Ball has the to a baseball Man obscenity of the Pitin Theodean coi toss baseball had Builtin it didst pick its Winner out of a it picked it out of a the game never recovered from the embarrassment of the strike year when the team with the Best season never even got into the postseason that a recurring Nightmare with the grand old As other sports quickly integrity is expend under the old baseball has had some races that were Over by labor some say mothers As it was last year in the american leagues mild in the old Yankee the Yankees used to Clinch the Pennant As Early As As they did in in they won the Pennant by in in a 154game the Louis Browns finished games behind the leading september was title month in old base the weather was cold but the game was you not Only sold no you also sold no papers or radio baseball baseball even tinkered with the world Best was not considered enough of a they went to in one of those they could have gone to Best 99outof100 and it have Arnold Rothstein was not interested in the duration that just the baseball even gets nervous when one team leaps into a Lead As Detroit did last year with its 355 the bulk of the evidence suggests that Only a very Good team could Ever do but baseballs fear is that some team will win it Unwor Thingly by opening up a huge Lead and then coasting in with inferior the Only Case in Point that comes to mind is that of the 1970 who opened a huge Lead on the Strong right Arm of Pitcher Wayne then had to Back into the Pennant when Simpson threw his Arm out in the last half of the when the pitch less reds were Able to win the Post season playoff that the games philosophers never trusted the five game it was a not a baseball is a game so it is measured in Deci in thousandths of a its not a its an it hates to be settled by it fears assault by the even though that has rarely been a Factor in the the team that won most consecutive games in the 1916 new York giants with not Only didst win the they also finished but baseball hates to take the 1985 play and those will go to the game cannot stand to see a 162game season settled in less than a at first a simple addition of one win or two games does not seem that unless you know seven games permit the use of a Star Pitcher twice for and maybe three history shows that great hitters May have four or five game but rarely does this detract from the world series not for your genuine Hardshell baseball he has never really trusted the world series to Tell the if he had his a world series would be 154 i what do you want a real Champi on or a fairy tale los anodes times Sutcliffe hits cubs past bugs from press dispatches Pittsburgh Rick Sutcliffe scattered eight hits and belted a Long Home and Ryne Sandberg also homered for his first rib of the year As the Chicago cubs blanked the Pittsburgh pirates 50 tuesday who had won 16 straight regular season games before losing his last Start in did not allow a Pitts Burgh runner past second he struck out seven and walked and also Trig gered a two run third inning with a single off loser Mike Bielecki contributed to his own downfall by throwing to second base too late to Nail Sutcliffe on Bob deniers sacrifice Gary Matthews Drew a on out walk be fore Keith Moreland lined a two run single to give the cubs a 20 witless in seven a bats prior to the unloaded the third Home run of his career counting one in last years playoffs into the Brightfield seats to Start a three run cubs Sandberg followed two batters later National league with his Home run into the left Centerfield he was batting with two extra base hits in 49 a bats this season prior to the Home in other National league games expos Phillies 4 Montreal Vance Law Drew a base loaded walk off Charles Hudson with one out in the 10th giving Montreal its Victory Over cardinals mets 3 Louis Andy Van Slyke tripled and doubled and Lonnie Smith singled twice and stole three bases to help Louis beat new York in a rain delayed astros reds 4 Houston Kevin Bass homered and drove in four runs and Rookie Ron Mathis won his first major league game As Houston Defeated who cracked rib singles in the first and third belted a two run Homer in the fifth inning off Cincinnati starter John it was the second Home run in two nights for his two homers matched his 1984 braves padres 2 san Diego Rick Mahler won his major league leading fourth game and Terry Harper lined a three run double to Lead Atlanta Over san won his fourth Start by going seven innings and allowing five Bruce Sutter pitched the final two innings for his third giants dodgers 1 san Francisco Mike Krukow tossed a seven hitter and struck out 10 and san Francisco scored twice on an error by shortstop Dave Anderson in the fifth in Ning to defeat Fernando Valenzuela and los the win snapped a seven game giants losing was in trouble in the fourth and sixth innings but came up with the big pitch when he needed despite a 22 Valenzuela has not Given up an earned run this Dpi photo Rick Sutcliffe hits Homer too retry beat indians 43 botox top yanks in 11 by the associated press Cleveland Detroit tigers right hander Dan Petry Hast scaled Down his Hes just being More realistic about i used to go out and think i would pitch a perfect game every i like to think but when i give up a walk or a i just go on to the next Petry he improved his re Cord to 31 with a 43 Victory Over the Cleveland indians Petry pitched 6 allowing two runs on six hits with a walk and two strike Bert went the distance for giving up nine including three by Kirk Detroit took a 10 Lead in the first when Alan Trammell stole american league moved to third on Gibsons Bloop single and scored on Lance Parrish Cleveland tied it in the Petry hit Julio Franco with a Mel Hall Fol Lowed with an rib Gibson countered with a base loaded double to break the tie in the fifth giving the tigers a 31 Cleveland got a run Back in the Bottom of the fifth on Tony Bernazard triple and Francos sacrifice but the tigers made it 42 in the sixth when Larry Herndon singled and scored on Chet Lemons two out Bernazard singled and scored from first on a single by Franco in the ninth against in other american league games red sox Yankees 4 new York Dwight Evans drove in his second run of the game with an a thinning single to give Boston a Triumph Over new royals Blue jays 6 Toronto George Brett put Kan Sas City ahead with a three run double and Jorge Orta belted a two run Homer As the royals rallied for five runs against Toronto reliever Bill Caudill to beat the Blue twins mariners 2 Minneapolis Tom Bru Iwansky belted a two run Hor her and Frank Viola pitched a six hitter As Minnesota Defeated orioles rangers 1 Texas storm Davis threw a three hitter and Rick Dan Ford and Mike Young homered to Lead Baltimore past White sox Brewers 5 Chicago Pinch hitter Oscar gambles base loaded single capped a two run rally against Milwaukee reliever Rollie fingers in the Bottom of the 10th inning that boosted Chicago Over the As Angels 9 Dusty Baker belted a three run Homer and two run Mike Davis hit his sixth Home run of the and Dave Kingman and Carney Lansford also homered to Power Oakland past
