European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 5, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June 1985 the stars and stripes Page 23 dodgers Edge Mefs on error from press dispatches los Angeles Bill Russell raced Home with the winning run in the Bottom of the 12th inning on a throwing error by mets shortstop Rafael Santana As the los Angeles dodgers edged new York 54 Mon Day Russell led off the 12th with an infield single off Doug one out Dave Anderson Pinch hitter Terry Whit Field sent a grounder to santanas right but his of balance throw National league eluded Ray Knight at second and Russell came Home to Steve earned his first Victory since new Yorks Danny Heep had hit a two run Homer off Ken Howell with two out in the top of the ninth to break a 22 Keith who knocked in the mets first two runs1 in the sixth started the rally with a single to Hep homered into the Brightfield Pavil his third Home run of the in other no games monday expos giants 2 san Francisco Rookie Pitcher Randy Claire got a bunt single on his first major league at Bat to open Montreal two run rally in the 15th inning As the expos Defeated san a right hander and the fourth expos Pitcher of the also earned his first major league decision by shutting out the giants on two hits Over the last four in his the late Ebba was a Catcher with the giants in the the Mcadoff bunt was the expos Only hit in the both runs off loser Frank the fourth giants were in the game Drew Only the lowest turnout Here this Phillies padres 2 san Diego Ozzie Virgil hit a pair of homers for the Phillies As Philadelphia Defeated san Diego to snap a three game losing Virgil cracked his seventh Homer in the second inning to give the Phillies a 10 Lead off padres starter Dave dra who had his personal four game win Streak cardinals astros 5 Louis Andy Van Slyke and Tommy Herr doubled and singled Home two runs apiece and Jack Clark belted a two run pow ering Louis Over Houston and strikeout King Nolan John wingless for a received 12hit Louis most of it at the expense of the cardinals restricted Houston to four hits before leaving during a rain delay that lasted 84 minutes in the sixth Van Slyke and Willie Mcgree contributed three hits for which stole four bases in seven top hitter in the major worked a double steal with cards Rookie Vince Coleman on which Coleman scored in the open ing Van Slyke doubled Herr in the Van Slyke added an rib single to make it 40 after Herr doubled Home who started the night with batting improved his Mark to with his two hits in three official Bird wins map award up Larry Bird is widely recognized As the Best player in the and monday the league made it official for the second consecutive year by announcing that the Boston celtics Forward has been named the regular season Bird becomes the first non enter in league history to win the map award in successive but with his celtics Trai Ling the los Angeles lakers 21 in the championship series and his own deadly shooting touch having cooled Bird was not thrilled with the every time i receive an award i take it and put it away and go on to the next he right now they really dont mean that much to but i know they will somewhere Down the right the Only Road Bird is concerned with is the one that leads Back to if the celtics cant beat the lakers at the forum in either game 4 wednesday night or game 5 Friday the Road East will be a sad Bird has hit Only 17of42 shots in the first three games of the championship be and while he refuses to blame the pain Ful Bone chips in his right Elbow or a sprained and swollen Finger on his shooting he just Hast been the same Marksman that he was during the regular Bird was a runaway Winner of the collecting 73 of 78 firs place votes and 763 of a possible 780 Points in the conducted among three Media members in each Aba City and nine National Media magic Johnson of the lakers was a Dis Tant second with 264 Points and one first place Philadelphia Center Moses a the map in 1982 and was third with 218 Points followed by lakers Center Kareem Winner of the award five with 206 fifth in the balloting was Terry cum mings of the Milwaukee who got two firs place votes and 138 Rookie of the year Michael Jordan of the Chicago bulls was sixth with 134 Points and the final two firs place Bernard King of the new York the 198485 scoring was seventh followed by Sidney Moncrief of a photo Boston celtics superstar Larry Bird moving on to next award Isiah Thomas of Detroit and Ralph Samp son of Bird was the leagues 2 scorer during the regular season with an average of Points per his Best scoring season in his five year Aba he was also eighth in rebounding with an average of per second in three Point Field goal percentage at sixth in free throw percentage at and the celtics Leader in steals with in just glad to have the Opportunity to show my skills and to improve my skills in the Bird i want to gel better every others who have won the map award in successive in addition to Are Bill Wilt Chamberlain and Abdul Lacys Homer Caps rally in 9th orioles Wing past Angels 75 from press dispatches Baltimore Lee Lacy sliced a two run Homer just inside the Brightfield foul capping a four run Baltimore rally in the ninth inning monday night that carried the orioles past the califor Nia Angels Lacys first Home run of the season came on an 02 pitch fron Donnie the fourth California whose throwing error aided Baltimore the orioles had trailed 50 earlier in the Larry sheets Drew a Mcadoff walk from reliever Pat Clements to Start the ninth and Moore took after Pinch hitter Mike Young Moore fielded Lenn Lakatas sacrifice bunt and threw to third which no one was Pinch runner Mike Boddicker scored on the Young took third and Sakata reached a sacrifice Fly by Pinch hitter Joe Nolan scored Young to make it 55 before Lacy Sammy the fourth Balti More pitched on third of an in Ning for the three Baltimore re Lievers blanked the Angels on three hits Over the final six in other Al games monday mariners tigers 8 Detroit Jim Presley drove in four american league runs with a pair of singles and helped spark a four run rally in the sixth inning that lifted Seattle Over the who trailed 50 after two overcame two Home runs by de traits Darrell Evans second his nth of the came with one out in the ninth inning off de Nunez and pulled the tigers within reliever Mike Stanton got the final two outs for his first Seattle roughed up reliever Aurclio to take a 75 Lead in the Alvin Davis started the sixth with a Ken Phelps walked and Dave Henderson hit a run scoring Presley two run single put the mariners ahead and Spike Owen then stroked his third Succes Sive a single to to drive Home Yankees As 2 new York Phil Nickroo pitched a five hitter Over eight innings to win the 291st game of his career and Rickey Hen Derson hit a two run pacing new York Over the 46yearold shut out Oakland until the eighth when Mike Heath tripled and Alfredo Griffin Nickroo struck put including Dave Kingman three and walked red sox indians 5 Boston Dennis Oil fan Boyd settled Down after a shaky and Rick Miller drove in two runs two singles As Boston Defeated gave up four runs in the first two but after Julio Francos in Field hit with two out in the Boyd surrendered just four hits the rest of the Way in allowing nine lie struck out nine and walked two in his american league leading seventh Complete rangers White sox 3 Texas Larry Parrish drilled a three run Homer in the eighth inning As Texas rallied for five runs and a Victory Over with one out and the score tied Toby Harrah and buddy Bell singled be fore Parrish hit his third Homo run in two off Chicago starter Britt 6 Gary Ward followed with a Chas ing Cliff Johnson greeted Dan Spillner with a and Johnson scored on a sacrifice Fly by Pinch hitter Pete rain in Kansas City Kansas City the Milwaukee at Kansas City royals game scheduled for monday night was called because of rain in the Bottom of the fourth inning with the Brewers leading