European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 10, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse August 1985 the stars and stripes Page 23 commentary baseballs War resembled a skirmish that certainly was As baseball strikes this one was a minor Skir a harmless Little firefight compared to some of the full scale wars that previously have exploded Over this Battle scarred two Days that distinctly try seven weeks without the regular umpires in try 712 cancelled games in those were scrapbook Lon term pock Marks in baseballs two Days and 25 games could have been a Rainy weather front that simply settled in for a while Over the nations Samuel Gompers and John Lewis would sneer at that but two Days and 25 games just dont measure its not As though the two sides didst have the equipment to create a heavy duty the play ers called salary arbitration and a salary Cap Freedom a description that could trigger images of Abraham Lincoln and stir the juices of any re blood de managements pension contribution from its record billion television contract Windfall had the capitalist earning an average wanted a tidy the Battle for those Bucks could have been the kind of Dollar and cents Issue the Public could understand and App re those issues were easier to define than the rather nebulous free agent compensation question that touched off the 1981 Freedom and pen Sions Are a lot easier to understand than the need for teams losing free agents to be compensated for that loss by professional so How come this strike its flames extinguished before getting a Chance to flare the adversaries had a lot to do with the last time the players and owners went to Ray Grebey was managements Man and Marvin Miller sat on the Union they seemed to have a genuine dislike for each a disdain that was hardly conducive to productive that was one of the reasons baseball gave Grebey the thumb after the replacing him with the less volatile Lee who like Macphail he is a lifetime base Ball a Friendly Man who was widely credited with fashioning the Compromise that settled the 1981 Don representing the remembered 1981 and had no desire to repeat whats he seemed to respect even like if this was going to be a heavyweight we would have had a remember that Feder Al mediator Ken Moffett was on the Case from the Start the last sending the two sides to Neutral Corners every so there was no Moffett this that should have been Tipoff that there flexibility that eventually would produce a both sides the owners got an extra year on the players avoided the dreaded salary the players got million for their the owners reduced the formula for their contribution to the Benefit plan from percent of to revenues to 18 there was a Little something for everybody in the even for students of strike buried deep in the recesses of the agreement was an examination of free Agency and some technical changes in that one of the changes dealt with a familiar the two sides decided to eliminate professional player compensation for teams losing free you re member dont you it was the single Issue that shut Down baseball for 50 Days four years associated press Al from Page 21 we just have to take it on in said it just feels Good to put a uni form on again and come Back and win its a crowd leaser and its a gift to those Well win this barring a and i dont see that the visiting orioles fell to just one game Over games royals tigers 34 Kansas Detroit haunt known that losing feeling in royals stadium for almost two Treyve had a double Bret Saberhagen nine strikeouts High lighted the first in which he tossed a the royals reached tigers starter Frank Tanana for three runs in the third inning and got six in the sixth As Tanana lost to pc for the 20th time in his major league Hal Mcrae drove in three runs to Power the royals in the second it had to end sometime and in glad it ended royals manager Dick Howser said of the those things happen in but you never want them to happen to Darrell Evans homered in each game for Detroit to up his total for the season to Brewers rangers 41 Texas Ben Oglivie two run Homer and rib single paced Mil Waukee firs game Oglivie Homer in the seventh inning padded the Brewers Lead to Milwaukee broke a 33 tie an inning earlier when Earnest riles singled and scored from first when Relief Pitcher Greg Harris threw wildly past first on Paul householders sacrifice Oglivie had a pair of sacrifice flies in the second twins Angels 2 Minneapolis Bert Blyleven won his 100th game As a twin his first since rejoining Minnesota in a Trade with Cleve land on 1 allowing seven hits while striking out four and walking none Over he got Relief help from Pete Filson and Ron who earned his 16th who played his first seven years with the is 205179 lifetime and 10090 As a the hosts snapped Angels team player rep Ron to Macks five game winning Streak As Kirby Puckett collected three no a photo Yankee outfielder Dave Winfield it shows what i can do with a few Days off 1 Felt Romanick men its a Little Tough to get Back in the i Haven let it the strike affect my it was time con but it didst White sox red sox 66 Chicago both teams used the Ron Kittle powered a pair of homers in the including one Over the roof at Comiskey Wade Boggs and Rich gedman turned on the Power in the Nightcap As Boggs drove in three runs with a Homer and a pair of singles and gedman homered and the first game was a period of adjust said who leads the Al with a average but was 0 for 4 in that it looked like i didst know what i was doing up i finally started to make solid Contact in the second game and it Felt a lot As mariners 2 Seattle Dusty Baker scored two runs and drove in two in an eight run fourth inning for the who won for the first time indoors this the As opened the 1985 season with three straight losses to they also lost All four games they played in the Minnesota metronome in we knew about but we also knew it was just a matter of time before we won a said he started the As fourth inning with a walk off Mark Lang Ston and finished it with a two run his off reliever Frank lost his sixth straight de from Page 21 first the shutout was the sixth of the year for that broke a three Way tie with Gooden and Valenzuela for the major league in thursdays other games Phillies pirates 3 Philadelphia it didst take Long for the leagues worst to find itself in a familiar position Mike Schmidt hit a three run Homer to overcome a to deficit and highlight a four run first inning against loser Don he has six Home 15 runs batted 12 walks and 14 runs scored in his last 14 he has hit in 15 of the past 22 games and raised his average from to braves giants 0 san Francisco san Francisco gave the Home crowd of them nothing to cheer about As Atlanta Rick Mahler handed the giants their 12th shutout loss of the pitched a four hitter and drove in one of the Atlanta Atlanta supported who was knocked out by the giants in three innings last sat with four double mets expos 7 Montreal new York assaulted Montreal pitching for 20 hits As it remained a Hal game ahead of Louis in the no much to the dismay of in Keith Hernandez had five hits and drove in three Darryl Strawberry and George Foster both hit their 16th homers and Gary Carter had his padres astros 5 san Diego Pinch hitter Jerry Royster singled in the winning run in the Bottom of the ninth inning to Cap a four run san Diego rally built on four hits and three errors by the astros wasted a 14hit Steve Garvey and car Melo Martinez each hit his 14th Homer for san reds dodgers 5 los Angeles Pete roses two out bunt single in the top of the 13th in Ning drove in Cesar Cedeno with the win Ning run in a Marathon that lasted 4 14 minutes before in los roses single was the second of the night for the 44yearold and the of the player managers Tycobb holds the Al time major league career record with
