European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 7, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                August 1985 the stars and stripes Page 23 Lemon lifts tigers by royals 84 from press dispatches Kansas Chet Lemon keyed a seventh inning rally monday night that boosted Walt Terrell and the de troit tigers to an 84 Victory Over Kansas City in front of royals stadiums largest crowd of the various signs in the standing Roo Only gathering of either implored the players not to strike or exhorted fans to retaliate with a strike of their own if the players Union went ahead with its work stoppage on Kirk Gibson and Lance Parrish blasted consecutive Home runs in the eighth off reliever Mike Lou Whitaker added a two run american league Homer in the ninth As the tigers whipped the royals in their Home Park for the 12th consecutive Kansas City Lethander Danny carried a 21 Lead and a on hitter into the seventh inning before the tigers scored three runs after two were struck out five and walked Willie Hernandez hurled the final two innings to re Cord his 22nd save of the in other Al games monday Yankees White sox 3 new York consecutive Home runs by Rickey Henderson and Don Mattingly powered new York Over helping Ron Guidry become the first 14game Winner in the american who had a 12game winning Streak snapped in his pre Vious did not walk a Batter and struck out seven in raising his career record against the White sox to Angels mariners 1 Mike Witt hurled a and Cali fornia used a throwing error by Seattle Pitcher Bill Swift to score the godhead run As the Angels downed the the in what appeared to be the final game for both teams before the strike planned by the players for boosted the Angels Lead in the american league West to five games Over second place Kansas the Angels broke a 11 tie with a pair of unearned runs in the Bottom of the Ruppert Jones singled to and after a sacrifice bunt by Doug Reggie Jackson was walked Bobby Grich then hit a one hop per Back to the Rookie right handers wild throw to second went into Center Jones scoring on the play with Jackson taking third and Grich reaching after Bob Boone grounded Dick Schofield got an infield hit off the Glove of second baseman Harold Reynolds to drive in As twins 1 Bruce Bochte had three hits and drove in two powering Oakland past Rookie Pitcher Tim Birtsas in creased his record to 82 As he gave up six hits and struck out Strawberry hits 3 homers As mets grab first place from press dispatches Chicago Darryl Strawberry hit three Home drove in five runs and scored four times leading the new York mets to a 72 Victory Over the Chicago the Victory was the third straight and ninth in the last 11 games for the it also enabled them to take Over first place in the National league East As Louis lost to Strawberry hit a three run Homer in the first inning off Derek who cleared waivers just an hour before the National league Strawberry added Solo shots in the fifth and seventh he also Drew an intentional walk in the third and scored on Danny Heeps two run double and singled in the who now has 15 became the fourth met in history to hit three Home runs in one the others were Jim Hickman in Dave King Man in 1976 and Claudell Washington in Strawberry has hit two homers three times this season and eight times in his three year de won his fifth straight allowing seven hits with no walks or strikeouts in 7 Lynch gave up a run in the fifth inning when Jody Davis hit his 10th Home in the Bob Dernier hit a routine Fly to Strawberry in right and Ron Cey scored from second when apparently thinking there were three failed to throw the Ball to the Der Nier was credited with a sacrifice the threat of a players strike had no affect on the crowd As turned out for the game and boosted the total to for the fou game one Banner in the right Field bleachers three strikes and the fans Are in other no games monday Phillies cardinals 1 Louis Ozzie Virgil hit two Home and John Russell hit leading Philadelphia Over the Houston in 1986 file photo Darryl Strawberry drives in 5 runs loss dropped the cardinals into second place in the National league in their last game before a threatened players the cardinals fell a half game behind the new York Louis had not been out of first place since june St Louis record is new Yorks Shane raw Leys five hitter helped Send the cardinals to their third straight loss and fifth in six struck out six batters and walked Virgil and Russell homered consecutively off Louis starter Danny in the fourth Virgil added his 13th Homer of the year in the dodgers braves 1 Atlanta Steve sax drove in three runs with a pair of run scoring leading los Angeles Over sax singled off Atlanta starter Len bar in the fifth to drive Home Mike who had singled and gone to second on a snapping a 11 Mario Duncan then driving in sax for a 31 dodger an inning sax blooded a two run single off reliever kick driving in Pedro Guerrero and Greg both of whom had Guerrero advanced Only one base on Brocks Bloop Ken Landreaux drove his ninth Homer of the a Solo in the opening inning for los Angeles first the dodgers added another in the seventh on a Guerreros his third hit of the extended his hitting Streak to 15 expos pirates 2 Pittsburgh Andre who had hit a two run Home run in the first doubled to break a ninth inning tie As Montreal rallied to defeat with the score tied Tim Raines singled and stole second and Vance Law walked with one out in the expos ninth off reliever Jim Dawson then greeted reliever Rick Ruschel with a Dou Hubic Brooks followed with a two run Tim worked three scoreless innings for the with Jeff Reardon finishing in the ninth for his major league High 28th reds padres 7 Cincinnati Dave Parker went 4 for including a to Lead an i hit attack that paced Cincinnati Over san Tom recorded the last out of the fifth inning to earn the Ted the last of seven pitchers used by the got the last out for his 19th Roy Lee took the Cincinnati player manager Pete Rose went lfor4 and needs 24 hits to break to Cobbs career record of astros giants 5 Houston Houston starting Pitcher Bob Knepper snapped a personal five game losing Streak and Glenn Davis drove in three runs As Houston beat san fran it was the astros fourth straight had not won since june when he Defeated the giants sports festival has new site Baton up the National sports festival will have a new name and new site in it will also have better after 12 Days of events featuring ath letes in 34 the sixth festival concluded with some Cowkey ceremonies sunday night following the individual event finals in Wom ens renamed the olympic the annual training session for future stars will be staged in Houston next summer with Hopes of attracting the Premier Amateur athletic Talent in the lets face says Jack executive director of next years the year after the olympics is the Many athletes take time others have timed their schedule to Peak for the olympics before retiring or turning a new group of athletes emerges the following but there largely few festival Marks were set this year and performances in track and swimming generally didst come within the same time zone As american psf officials in Baton Rouge were Hesi Tant about providing exact figures on ticket but estimates indicated the festival lost at least because of disappointing especially at track and the opening the Bottom line will not be the ticket sales or the number of fans at insisted psf executive director Bill arguing National exposure for Young athletes and this City outweigh financial Kelly is taking no weve got some Early he weve already got six Gold medal Spon and Well be prepared to begin ticket sales much earlier than was done at Baton we should have better response in promoting individual athletes because of the recognition Treyve received Here this swimmers Jeff Olsen and Molly Mcgill entered this Competition relative unknown outside of and they left for this weeks Long course championships in Mission with a sizeable dose of Houston officials will be Able to publicize gymnast Joyce a 14yearold from Pater if she decides to return for the seventh this Endeavor was a grand Baton Rouge mayor Pat screen even if the City ultimately has to absorb a were going to Benefit into the future from the new facilities constructed despite some unimpressive attendance figures you could count the fans at some of the mens basketball prelims Baton Rouge has made it Clear it would like to serve As festival Host local businesses picked some hotels benefited substantially and this metropolitan area of so often obscured by the sports Shadow cast by new had 40 hours Worth of television in itching to get said who was part of a 100member delegation checking out the Baton Rouge i know now that within the scope and re and with the people working on the we have the capability to conduct a firs class the next step for Houston comes in octo when olympic committee officials examine the Sites proposed for each 2 exempress players Are signed by jets wide receiver Jojo Townsell and defensive end Ben Rudolph have been released from their football league contracts and have signed with the new York it was announced both played with the los Angeles express this