European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 2, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 26 the stars and stripes monday june 2, 1986 cards jump on reds for 11-2 Victory from profs Dupit Chu Cincinnati Bob Forsch Siv the s l. Lutr card Ira so run 15-Hii eruption saturday us in Omen that inc defending National league champions arc finally rounding into form. Forsch pitched a Faur Hitler Mike a Cash and Andy Van Slyke cacti homered and drove in four runs As a Roundup the weak i icing cardinals broke a five game losing Streak and routed the Cincinnati redi h-2, the cardinals have made 24 hits am secret 15 runs in sheif last two games an encouraging sign on a club that was last in the league saturday Wilh a .115 team average. It s Nice to see everybody really Hil Ling the Ball Forsch said. I i has t been just one Guy. Maybe we re turning the Corner. I think Thal s what everybody s been waiting for. We Haven t been playing Well All four cardinals had iwo hits apiece in addition to three hits each by Terry Pendleton and Heath. The team s looking a lot Heath said. When everybody starts feeling a Little More confident and doing the Little things thai help us win Well be on our the cardinals began the Day in last place in Hienl Easi Al 17-27. Heath highlighted a Ihrck run first inning Wilh a two run single off turn Browning 2-5, and added a two run Homer in inc third. The cardinals built inc Lead to 10-0 in inc fourth on Van Slyke s three run Homer off Scott Terry his second Home run of the season. Van Slyke also had an rib single in the first. The two homers give the cardinals a Iota no 14 in their first 44 games Well off their 87liomer Pace of last season. In other National league games saturday Phillies 1, padres 0 Philadelphia John rus sell broke a scoreless Duel with a Sci enl inning Home run leading Phila Delphia Over san Diego for us fifth straight Victory. Russell s Homer his third of the season made a Winner of Charles Hudson who banked the padres on five Hils Over seven innings to even he record Al 3-3. Steve Bedrosian pitched two inning of witless Relief Tor his sixth save. Brics 8, cubs 4 Chicago Bob Horner and Dale Murphy hit two run homers and out Virgil and Rafael Rami rez Hil Solo idiots to Lead Atlanta Over Chicago. Finals 7, mets 3 new York Jeff Leonard and Rob Thompson rapped three hits apiece sparking a i nit attack As san Francisco Defeated new York. Pirates 4, dodgers 0 Pittsburgh Bob Kipper combined with two relievers to Scal Ier nine hits and Tony Peru s two out single in the sixth inning broke a scoreless tie As Pittsburgh beat los Angeles. A in 4, expos 3 Houston Glenn Davis hit a Solo Home run to break an eighth in Ning lie and lift Houston Over Mon Treal. Boggs average to .402 As botox Down twins 7-2 from press Dis batches Minneapolis Wade Boggs had five Hils in five at bats saturday night to raise his major league leading average to .-102 and Lead the Boston red sox to a 1-2 Victory Over the Minnesota twins t was the sox s fifth win in their last Sis games. Bruce Hurst pitched a two Hitler aver five innings to raise is record to 5-3. "1 get a hit in the second base Hole where the second baseman usually stands 1 gel a drab blur Down the third tins line dogs said describing two of his hits. It s better to be Lucky than Good. Hitting .400 does t mean anything to me. It s just a num Ber. I la consider it on inc last Day of the season however his manager John me bore Namura is considering he possibility Al ready. It won t Surprise me because of All the topic t see play he has a Chance to hit ,400," Mcnamara said. He Hils inc Ball All he s just a natural hitter said twins manager Ray Miller. He hits it where they re not the five hit game was he second in Boggs career with the other coming May 20, also against Minnesota. Boggs whose .514 on base percentage leads the majors scared twice. He also drove in a run during Boston s sin run Sec Ond inning against Mike Smithson 5-4. Hurst allowed Only Kirby Puckett s sin Gle leading off the game and Tom Brunansky s Bloop fourth inning triple thai right fielder Dwight Evans misjudged. He walked one and struck out five before Crum bling to inc ground with a Groin injury after his last pitch of the fifth inning on which Greg Gagne filed out tin nol going to speculate on How Long Al Roundup hell be out Roslon Trainer Charlie Moss said. Hurst said he fell the pain As soon As he pushed off the Mound it hurl like a son of a gun he said la Felt like someone put a knife in he was carried off the Field and was relieved by Sammy Stewart. He gave up four Hils and an unearned run in the eighth on an error by shortstop key Quinones. The twins added another run in the ninth on an rib forc cout by Tuckell breaking Stew Art s siring of 21% innings without an earned run. Reliever Bob Stanley pot the final two outs. Don Baylor the first of 11 Bailers in bos ton s second inning led off with a single and went to third on Rich cd Roan s double. One out later Baylor scored and Gedir Mit moved to third on Smithson s wild pitch. Sieve Lyons then hit a Fly Ball that twins left fielder Mickey Hatcher misjudged for a Elliree base error. Lyons was credited with a sacrifice Fly. Smithson walked Quinones and after Marty Barrett filed out. Boggs single drove in Lyons to make it 3-0. Bill Buckner s two run double and Jim Rice s rib single capped the inning. In other american league games sat urday a s 4, Yankees 3 Oakland Calif. Dave Kingman connected on a 3-2 Pilch from Ron Guidry with one out in the ninth inning saturday for his 11 the Home run of the season us Oak land beat new York. The Homer Kingman s third in four games was Only inc fifth Hil of inc game off Guidry 4-4. But it was the third Homer off the Veteran left hander who tool his third straight decision and has t won since. May 10, Steve Ontiveros 1-2, pitched two innings in Relief of Eric plunk allowing one hit and striking out four to gain credit for the Vic tory. Blue a is 4, while sox 3 Toronto Lloyd mos by who hit a two run Homer in the first inning drove in the winning run with a double with iwo Oul in the i Ullh As Toronto beat Chicago. The Victory emended Toronto s winning Skircak to Ihrcke games while the while sox suffered i hair seventh straight loss. Garth Lorg opened the huh with a Tingle off one Nelson 4-2, the third Chicago Pitcher and was sacrificed to second by Tony Fernandez. One out later. Ranee Mulliniks walked. Moseby followed with nil opposite Field double Down the left Field line. Royal 8, ranters 1 Kansas City. To. Mark Gubic a pitched in Strong innings and Frank White drove in a o runs leading Kansas City past Texas. Gubicza 3-4. Won his third consecutive decision. He gave up Fye hits including Toby Harrah s Home run in inc fifth. The rangers missing Pulc inca Hilis Larry Parrish Gary Ward and Don Slaught because of injuries made three errors that led to a pair of unearned runs. Indians 3, Brewers 2 Cleveland Andre Thormon s two run Homer in the eighth inning got Cleve land by Milwaukee and snapped he Indi ans six game losing Streak. Angels 2, Oriolt 0 Anaheim Calif. Kirk Mccaskill pitched a two Hitler and Gary Penis singled Home two runs in the fifth inning As Cali fornia beat Baltimore Mccaskill 4-3, gave up an infield single to Alan Wiggins leading off the game Ana a Pinch double by Jim Dwyer starting the ninth. He struck out five and walked three. The loss broke the three game winning Streak of the orioles who had won eight of their previous nine games. Mil liners 7, tigers 4 Seattle Danny Tartabull Dave Henderson and Spike Owen each tripled and drove in two runs to key a is Hil attack As Seattle turned Back Detroit. The game marked Only the second time in 10 years that Seattle had three triples in one game. 500 from Page 21 eight laps. 1 had the boost turned Down 10 laps before the yellow when Kevin got by me because i did t know if we had enough to finish the a past race measurement showed that Ratul finished Wilh less than two Gallons in his 40-gallon tank about enough for one Lap. Larry Curry Cogan s Crew chief said we were getting concerned about fuel. Without the last yellow we weren t sure if we would make it. Mears led 77 laps Rahal 58 and Cogan 13. The Victory earned fatal s team an Esti mated $600,000 from the expected payoff of More than s3.5 million. Rahal also received the Chevrolet Corvette Pace car. Roberto Guerrero of Colombia who finished second and third in his finl two appearance Here was fourth. The rest of the unofficial top 10 included Al Unser jr., Michael Andretti. Emerson Fittipaldi Johnny Rutherford defending Champion Danny Sullivan and Rookie Randy Lanier. The official finish was to be posted by the sanctioning . Auto club sunday. Despite the fastest Field in Aulo racing history running on the narrow indy track the race was very clean with Only five minor accidents and no injuries. The crowd basking under mostly sunny Sites was at least 50,000 fewer than showed up last sunday when the race was originally scheduled. Rain washed away inc race Bain sunday and monday and More bad weather was forecast for the next three Days. Track officials made the unprecedented decision to postpone the event until sat urday. It allowed me o play Golf twice Rahal said of the postponement la was a pain for everybody but it s better to do Lac race on a Day like today than on tuesday or wednes Day with nobody in the Elands. They would have missed one of the Best races there was another delay saturday when 1983 Winner Tom Snova veered off the in Side of the rack on the Pace Lap. Snova who had problems getting his engine started moments earlier after the tradition Al gentlemen Start your engines com Mand brushed the Wall heading toward turn Ihrcke. He suffered Only a bruised thigh but his left front suspension was badly damaged. The fuel tanks of the other 32 racers were topped off before the engines were restarted about 35 minutes later. The Star Watts uneventful. Sneva s mishap a the Only Accident in the race until Johnny Parsons hit the second turn Wall on Lap 102. Parsons bounced off the Wall and spun into the infield on inc Backstretch coming to rest against the inside Wall. Hews not injured. Michael Andretti who started from the outside of the front Row beat veterans mean and Sullivan to the first turn and moved off to a solid Lead. He averaged 202.359 Mph Over the first 10 Lap and stayed in the Lead until his first pit Stop atthe end of Lap 42. While Michael was moving off to his Early advantage his a her Maria Andrei to saw his siring of indy Frust Raiichi continue As his engine blew on Lap 13 and be drove the car slowly onto the grass in turn two. After a Low Back to the pits the car was restarted but Andretti found himself far off the Pace and was in and out of tie pits twice before finally calling in quits by up 35. The elder Andretti the 1969 Winner wis forced in Start 3dlh after the car he bad qualified in the Middle of the second Row was damaged beyond repair in a crash Dur ing practice. He quickly began passing can at Ike Start and was 21st by the time Bis engine quit. A. Foyt the Only four time Winner of the 500, was running 12th when he spun and hit the pit Wall As he made a routine pit Stop during a caution period on Lap 137. Foyt. Who had been having a rear Brake problem was not harmed but his car wit out for the Day. We were having problems All Day i m just kind of glad it happened and got us out of there said Foyt. When he completed my fourth Lap saturday Foyt became the first Driver to surpass 10,000 Miles at indy. The caution Flag on Lap 137 was brought oui when Rich Vogler crashed for Ine Sec Ond time in As Many indy starts. He lid into the Concrete Barrier on the outside of Tarn three but escaped injury. The other former champions in the race were three time winners rut Bernord my two time Winner Al Unser who Finis cd 22nd. It was the first time in sin Yean to to Unser did nol finish in the lop 10
