European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 23, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse July 1985 the stars and stripes Page 23 Niekro leads yanks Over twins from press dispatches Minneapolis Phil Niekro had seen a lot of things happen in his but never has he seen such Confidence flowing in the clubhouse before the there is a fever in the said Niekro after pitching the new York Yankees to a 52 Victory Over the Minnesota twins Guys Are walking around american league pumping everybody up before the its like a Nice i dont think Ive Ever seen so much Confidence in a team before a except for serving up a hanging Knuck Leball to Kent Hrbek for a Home run in the eighth Niekro had his Knuck Leball dancing in front of the frustrated twins hitters As he won his 293rd career Ron Hassey really liked the screwball said after scattering seven the Knuck Leball was working very they knew i was getting three or four pitches the Only Knuck Leball that i threw that i knew was going to give me a Battle was the one i threw to he As soon As i threw it i knew he had to hit Hrbek Home run spoiled Niekras attempt for his 45th career shutout and would have made him the oldest Pitcher 46 111 Days to Ever throw a Satchel Paige owns the record at 46 years and 75 these Guys the writers have been wanting to write about that for a month said Yankee manager Billy they have it All written up like an obit although Niekro failed to get the he lifted his career record to hell get his 300 said twins manager Ray Hes a master of Psychol he does the Little things at the right times to win Frank went 7 innings and took the Rickey Henderson led off the game with the first of his four but was forced out by Willie Don Mattingly hit a grounder to first baseman Mike whose wide throw to second pulled shortstop Greg Gagne off the base for an Gagne tried to relay the Ball Back to but his throw hit second base Umpire Tim Mcclelland Arm and sailed Over first for another allowing Randolph to reach Dave Winfield then hit a 456foot Home run to his 12th of the a photo Yankees knuckle Baller Phil Niekro baffles twins for 293rd Victory a double by an error by second baseman Tim Teufel and a sacrifice Fly by Andre Robertson made it 40 in the the Yankees scored their final run in the eighth when Robertson doubled off Viola and came Home on Bobby Meacham Bloop single off Frank Eufe in other Al games sunday Blue jays As 4 Toronto Jesse Barfield collected three extra base hits and three and Damaso Garcia drove in a pair of runs to lift Toronto Over Barfield doubled in a pair of runs to highlight a four run first tripled in the third and doubled in a run in a five run seventh reliever Dennis who entered the game in the fifth inning when starter Jim Clancy departed with neck worked three innings to improve to after the As took a 10 Lead on Bruce Boches rib the Blue jays rocked Bill for four runs in the Bottom of the rangers tigers 5 Detroit Toby Harrah singled Home the tying and Wayne Tolleson followed with a two run Homer As the Texas rangers scored three times in the ninth inning to beat the tigers had taken a 54 Lead on Kirk Gibsons three run Homer in the fifth and Detroit brought on reliever Bill Schur scr to replace starter Walt Terrell to Start the Alan Bannister led off with a Pinch single and was sacrificed to second by Curtis Harrah greeted reliever Aurclio with a tying the and Tolleson hit his first Homo run of the season on a 32 the Homer made a Winner of Dave the third Texas the third Detroit saw his record drop to orioles royals 4 Baltimore Eddie Murray two run double with the bases loaded snapped a seven thinning tie and carried Baltimore Over Kansas Murray slicing drive into the left Field Corner came off reliever Mike Bud was pinned with his eighth defeat in his last nine red sox Angels 4 Boston Rich gedman went 4 for including a Home run and a and knocked in three runs while Bill Buckner drove Home three runs with his 400th major league double in the first powering Boston Over Dwight Evans hit his 11th Home run for the red Wade Boggs extended his hitting Streak to 24 longest in the major leagues this with an rib double in the Reggie Jackson hit his 16th Home run of the season and 519th of his career for California in the indians White sox 3 Chicago Tony Bernazard hit a Solo Home run in the top of the 10th inning to give Cleveland a Victory Over Chicago and end the indians losing Streak at five the Home Bernazard eighth of the made a Winner of reliever Rich and a loser of Dan Chicago had a five game winning Streak Brewers mariners 4 Milwaukee Robin Yount belted a Home run and had three Bis and Ted Simmons added a Solo shot to help Milwaukee defeat Ray hurled the first six innings for Mil allowing three runs on five hits to earn the he walked three and struck out Bob Gib son picked up his seventh save by pitching three innings of cards beat dodgers hold East Lead from press dispatches los Angeles Pinch hitter Steve Braun hit a two run Homer in the 10th his first of the to break a 2 2 tie and carry the Louis cardinals to a 42 Victory Over the los Angeles Dodg ers the Victory enabled Louis to retain its Hal game Lead Over the new York mets in the National league the who had won the first three games of the managed to stay one half game ahead of the san Diego padres in the National league after the cardinals got out of a bases loaded Jam with one out in the Pinch hitter Terry Pendleton led off the 10th with a Dou ble off reliever Tom after Darrell Porter popped batting for winning Pitcher Jeff homered into the Brightfield was the fourth Cardinal Bob the sixth Louis got the final out for his second save As the dodgers once again loaded the this time with two but were unable to the dodgers tied the score 22 in the eighth on successive singles by Pinch hit ters Terry Whitfield and Enos Cabell and a run scoring single by Steve reliever Ken Dayley replaced Kurt Kepshire and kept the godhead run from scoring by getting Mariano Duncan to ground into a double play and Pinch hitter Steve Braun Bill Russell to pop in other no games sunday mets braves 10 new York George Foster pounded a three run Homer and two run double and Howard Johnson added a two run igniting a blistering attack that sent surging new York to a wild Triumph Over less than 24 hours after getting 16 runs and 18 hits against the the mets collected 16 hits in capturing their 15th Victory in the last 17 it was the first time new York had 10run games since june 1976 against the cubs at Wrigley the mets closed the season series with Atlanta winning 10 of the 12 games be tween the Terry forced to Start when de Lynch was hospitalized saturday with a stomach hurled six innings for the he scattered six hits and Al Lowed three runs in his first Start since the mets broke the game open with five runs in the fifth off Pascual 1 to grab a 91 pirates padres 2 san Diego Sammy Khalifa stroked a two run double and Junior Ortiz added an rib single to key a three run second inning that sparked Pittsburgh Over san Lee who had lost 11 straight Over a two year went the first six innings to pick up his first Victory since june gave up five hits and struck out John Candelaria and Cecilio Guante combined to pitch the final three Eric was the National league in the Pittsburgh Bill Madlock opened with a walk and reached third on a double by Doug Khalifa sliced a double to left to drive in Madlock and when Tony Gwynn let the Ball get past him for an Khalifa took Ortiz followed with a single to Short right to score the who had lost five in a added two runs in the ninth off reliever Mark Marvell Wynne singled and moved to second on Candelaria Sac Johnny Ray walked before Jason Thompson and Madlock followed with run scoring carmelo Martinez belted his 13th Home run of the year in the ninth with Graig Nettles aboard to account for the Only padre giants cubs 1 san Francisco Jeff Leonard homered and Bill Laskey earned his Sec Ond straight Victory after eight consecutive defeats to Lead the san Francisco giants Over worked seven yielding eight hits and one walk while striking out Greg Minton worked the final two innings for his third Larry took the the teams split the season series six games reds Phillies 6 Cincinnati Dave Parker hit his 17th Home run of the passing his 1984 total by to drive Home Pete Rose and give Cincinnati a Victory Over Phila who had hit into a double play in the fifth inning to kill a reds homered to right off reliever Don after Rose had singled with two Rose went one for three to draw within 34 hits of breaking to Cobbs career re Cord of Rose also Drew his career walk in the fifth he has 50 walks this season and is Lith on the All time walk list behind Lou Gehrig Philadelphia had taken a 65 Lead in the top of the seventh on Glenn Wilsons ninth Homer of the to Diazs triple and John russells single off relievers Bobbu Chanan and John astros expos 4 Montreal Glenn Davis drove in two runs with a single and a Homer As Houston ended a six game losing Streak by defeating the who entered the game with Only one run scored in their previous 43 got a run in the third on Bill do rans two out rib single off Mickey it scored Mark who had walked and taken second on a wild Davis and Dickie Thon singled Home runs to Widen Houston Lead to 30 in the the expos got one Back against Winner Mike in the Bottom of the inning when Dan Driessen walked and came around on Terry Franconis single and Herman winning hams sacrifice Montreal made it 32 in the fifth on a sacrifice Fly by Hubie but the astros got the run Back in the sixth when Pinch hitter Jerry Mumphrey delivered a sacrifice Davis opened the eighth with his third Homer of the putting hous ton on top 52 and ending Montreal reliever Tim burkes scoreless string of
