European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 16, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                August 1985 the stars and stripes Page 21 sports Phillies snap mets 9game win Streak from press dispatches new York Keith Hernandez leads the major leagues in Gam winning runs batted in this season and has consistently been the Man the new York mets have counted on in the the have been playing their Best Ball of the year and were on a nine game winning so what happened wednesday night May have been Hernandez struck out with the bases loaded to end the fifth inning and then grounded into a Gam ending Dou ble again with the bases As the Philadelphia Phillies held on to beat the mets you cant do it All the Hernandez the runners were there to drive in and i didst do Hernandez stranded nine in the first he struck out on a full count delivery from Kevin Gross with runners on first and and Len Dykstra was caught stealing on the pitch for a double Gross struck out Hernandez to escape the fifth inning and reliever Don Carman got Hernandez to Bounce into the Gam ending double Hernandez had been 14 for his last 28 with runners in scoring position before going 0 for 4 tuesday night in those situations and 0 for 3 wednesday i Haven swung the Bat Well for the last two he i dont feel comfortable at the he had a Tough said mets manager Dave he was a Little i need to give him a night Gross knew what he had to do against and knew he had done the try my hardest against Gross Hes a Tough i had him guessing All Gross pitched a six hitter for eight innings and singled in a Rick Schu broke a scoreless tie with a single in the seventh for the struck out seven and walked including the first two batters in the Carman relieved and recorded his fifth National league expos cubs 7 Chicago Scot Thompsons tie breaking Pinch single in the seventh inning and Solo Home runs by Sal Pitcher Bryn Smith and Mitch Webster led Montreal Over survived a grand slam by Ron Cey As the expos won for the fifth time in six Tim Burke earned his fifth despite allowing a Pinch Homer to Richie Hebner in the astros giants 5 san Francisco Pinch hitter Dickie thongs three run Homer in the seventh inning powered Houston Over san it was thongs third Homer and first Pinch hit of the he remained in the game at shortstop and added a run scoring single in the ninth dodgers braves 0 los Angeles Bob Welch limited Atlanta to five hits in winning his eighth straight decision and Ken Landreaux drove in two runs As los Angeles Defeated in winning their sixth game in a the dodgers have held their opponents to one earned run in the last 52 the shutout was los Angeles third in the last four and 19th of the tops in the padres reds 1 san Diego Dave Dravecky tossed a five hitter and san Diego turned an error by shortstop Dave Concepcion into four runs in the third inning against Cincin pirates cardinals rained out Louis rain forced postponement of the game Between Pittsburgh and the game was rescheduled As part of a thursday As sweep pair from twins from press dispatches Minneapolis five games in a 50hour Span can exhaust even the stoutest baseball but Don Sutton continued his tireless quest for 300 career victories in the injected Energy into his beleaguered Oakland athletics team he has chalked up a lot of victories in his As manager Jackie Moore said after Sutton won 292 to spark Oakland 74 doubleheader sweep of the Minnesota not Only does it move him closer to his but it was a Heck of a boost to our Sutton allowed Only five hits in innings in the opener and then watched As Mike Davis Sev a thinning Home run gave the As the Lead for Good in the if there was an Opportunity for us to fold up our it would have been this Sutton in reference to the dejection following losses in the first three games of the i didst see any evidence of tiredness this Sutton said that getting 300 victories is his single motivating Factor to continue to you gotta give credit to twins manager Ray Miller he pitched a hell of a and Davis is a Good Young you throw it where he can hit it and hell hit it a Long in the second twins Rookie Mark making his first major league appearance after being recalled from Toledo on took a four hitter and a 32 Lead into the but he walked Dusty Baker before yielding Davis 22nd Homer of the year for a 43 As Angels mariners 16 Seattle Jim Seattle and Jack Lazorko combined on a six hitter and Al Cowens hit a two run Homer As the Seattle Defeated California to gain a split in their in the Rod cares rib double in the 12th inning gave the american league West division leading Angels their Stu pitched 3 to innings of scoreless Relief to gain the american league red sox royals 3 Boston Bill Buckner hit his fifth career grand slam Homer and Dwight Evans and Steve Lyons belted two run shots As Boston ended a five game losing Streak by bombing Kansas Wade Boggs had four Lyons three and Tony Rich Marty Barrett and Jackie Gutierrez two each As Boston pounded three Kan Sas City pitchers for a season High 21 the most in the american league this Bpggs went 4 for 6 in regaining the american league batting Lead with a Kansas cites George Brett went 1 for dropping to Blue jays rangers 1 Texas Dave Stieb pitched a four hitter and Jesse Barfield scored twice and drove in two runs As Toronto edged walked four and struck out four in going the orioles indians 4 Baltimore Mike Young and Fred Lynn hit two run homers and Nate Snell pitched 3 shutout innings of Relief As Baltimore Defeated Rick Dempsey added a sacrifice Fly and a Solo Homer for the who have hit 24 homers in their last 11 games while extending their major league leading total to tigers Brewers 3 Milwaukee Nelson Simmons cracked a two run Homer and Jack Morris and Willie Hernandez combined for a six hitter As Detroit edged Yankees White sox 7 Chicago Ron Hassels two run single in the top of the ninth highlighted a four run inning and lifted new York to a wild Victory Over the Yankees trailed 76 before Hassels two run sin Gle made it Mike Pagliarulo then doubled Home two insurance a photo Dallas cowboys Tony Dorsett absent since july 21 Dorsett oks 5year pact with Dallas thousand a Dallas cowboys running Back Tony Dorsett ended his holdout wednesday when he agreed to a five year team president Tex Schramm who has been absent from the National football league teams Camp since july was expected to report spokesman Greg Aiello we were Able to construct a five year agreement that i think will accomplish what i said earlier that will give him the Opportunity to com plete his career with Pride and some financial Sta Schramm told a press conference wednes Day Dorsett Hast received a paycheck since the internal Revenue service began attaching his salary last the irs said Dorsett owed in Back he has reached a settlement in which he has already paid and will pay the rest later this do setts woes stemmed from investments in business deals that turned sour and consumed most of the million in deferred payments he had asked the club to give him up Dorsett then turned to agent Howard Slusher july 18 to negotiate with earlier Slusher resigned because he objected to wednesdays meeting and told Witt do setts he could no longer work with unidentified sources told the Dallas morning the source told the wanted to wait two weeks or right before the season to talk with the slashers answering service said it could not immediately locate him when the associated press called wednesday Stewart and Schramm negotiated for five hours in Schramme office before an agreement was further contract details were not Avail i think the thing that broke the logjam was that Tony wanted to play Schramm