European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 20, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 1985 the stars and stripes Page 23 the Long Arm of Boston third baseman Wade Boggs fails to reach a drive by Cleveland Andre Thornton Thornton got a single and the indians won Evans stars As tigers whip As by United press International Darrell Evans belted his fourth Home run in As Many a three run shot in the first and Alan Trammell added a Solo shot in the same inning saturday to Power the Detroit tigers to a 96 Victory Over the Oakland Evans continued his torrid going in the last four the Veteran has gone raising his average 91 Points to Dan pitched seven yielding nine hits and five Willie Hernandez pitched the final two innings to Seal the with one out in the Trammell blasted his fifth Homer of the season off Steve Mccatty then walked Nelson Simmons and Lance Par Rish before Evans connected for his sixth giving the tigers a 40 Lou Whitaker stole second and scored on a Trammell single in the second to increase the tigers Lead to 51 Detroit made it 81 in the Parrish Stanley cup finals Al Roundup and Evans singled to Chase re Liever Tom Tellmann then walked Larry loading the Mike Laga had an rib groundnut and Tom Brookens stroked a two run Brookens drove in Detroit final run in the eighth inning with an rib double off Keith Dave Collins scored from third base on a passed Ball by Parrish in the first inning for Oakland first who had three added an rib single in the the As scored twice in the seventh on an rib double by Carney Lansford and a run scoring groundnut by Dave Kingman socked his ninth Homer in the a Solo the As scored their final run on Aldre do Griffins eighth inning sacrifice in other Al games saturday indians red sox 1 Cleveland Neal Heaton and Tom Waddell combined on a helping the indians snap a five game los ing Boston has lost five of its last pitched Al lowing three hits and one Waddell got the final seven outs for his seventh Blue jays twins 1 Minneapolis Jesse Barfield had a double and triple and scored two while Ranee Willie Upshaw and Tony Fernandez each drove in a run to lift the Blue Jim scattered eight hits Over 6 his Long est stint of the Jim Acker earned his fifth Brewers royals 2 Milwaukee Simmons collected three hits and drove in three runs to help Moose Haas improve to the Triumph snapped the Brewers three game losing Streak and stopped the royals six game winning the Brewers broke a 22 tie with five runs in the rangers White sox 2 Chicago absolutely said Bobby Valentine of his first Victory As manager of the Texas the Guys played said Valentine of the Triumph that snapped the rangers seven game losing Burt posted his first Amer ican league allowing but four hits before leaving in the Harris allowed but one hit in Larry Parrish led a i2hit attack with a two singles and two he scored twice and drove in a run and Cliff Johnson drove in two runs with a bases loaded mariners orioles 7 Seattle Jinn Presley run scoring single in the ninth inning gave Seattle comeback Victory Over a three run Homer by Pinch hitter Ivan Calderon in the Bottom of the eighth forged a 77 tie for the re hot oilers face solid flyer defense Philadelphia a the Edmon ton oilers dont often get swept in a sea sons the Philadelphia flyers achieved that feat this what does that mean As the teams prepare for the Stanley cup finals not a said flyers Captain Dave who has sufficiently recovered from a knee injury and expects to take a regular shift against the National hockey leagues defending take our record against Edmonton this season and throw it out the the beginning tuesday Fea Ture the defensive minded flyers third est in the league in goals allowed with 241 against the explosive oilers who once again had the leagues Best led by the incomparable Wayne there a Puzzle to oilers scout Ace Bailey Ive tried to pick them apart but i just you look Down their roster and Start counting the Guys who dont seem like i come up with i thought it might really Hurt when they lost Brad Mccrimmon with a shoulder but Eddie Hospodar has been those Guys on defense take every thing in front of the net and they beat you to the the whole team is so disc and they do they the oilers lost 54 and 75 during the they have not beaten Phila Delphia in eight dating Back to no vember they finished second to the flyers in the Overall standings with 109 Points to Philadelphia id say right now were Gretzky they deserve to be they had an exceptional they played they played we finished but i know one thing Well be but Edmonton defens Eman Randy Gregg the flyers skate extremely Well and Are very Well they have great discipline and Good he but what happened during the season really Doest matter that much in the flyers have Pelle sensational during the season and More so in the he has allowed Only 29 goals in 14 games and has three Lindbergh led the league with 40 victories this his Edmonton Grant has been less dependable in the play Chicago bombed him for 18 goals in three semifinal furs entire career has run very hot most of the very cold the he could be the key to Edmonton chances of repeating As up the flyers have Only three explosive scorers Brian Tim Kerr and Ilkka missed the entire semifinal series with Quebec with a knee injury and his status is questionable for the the oilers counter with a Bevy of bomb ers Jari Kerri a 70goal scorer this Glenn Mike Mark Messier last years most valuable player in the playoffs and Mark Edmonton has a Clear Edge in the flyers defense will be undermanned because of Mccrimmons