European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 6, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday july 6, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 23 commentary a by bbl by Ami by by bbb Habbi Hub he a bbl Hub Abbhi Seaver a Winner again with red sox in the red sox dugout Between innings a Fenway Park on monday night. Tom Seaver approached John Mcnamara. This is the first Lime in a Long time the 41-year-old right hander told the red sox manager that i be looked out on the Field and wanted to be tuesday night Seaver showed Why the red so wanted him pitching. In his first Start following a weekend Trade. Seaver earned his first Victory since april As the Reu sox battered the Toronto Blue jays 9-7. In seven innings he allowed tour runs and nine hits but none of the nine was off the Wall that hovers in left Field. Mixing the Speed of his pitches he upped his record to 3-6 with a 4.44 Era. In his 307th career Victory Seaver had two strike outs for a career total of 3.570, third on the All Lime list behind Nolan Ryan and Steve Carlton. At my age Seaver said Lacr my objectives Areto Pilch seven innings and give up three earned runs or less and i missed by one when the new red sox Pitcher Steve Crawford was announced at the Start of the eighth inning the sellout crowd of 32,719 began chanting sea Van sea vah for several minutes requesting an encore Bow. But he did t appear until Afier the final out wearing his Navy Blue windbreaker. He emerged from the dugout to shake hands with several team mates. When they began chanting for me i was already in the clubhouse undressing Seaver explained. The attire i had on was not conducive to a Bow. My reception has been stupendous. The people Are say ing Welcome to our world and we re glad to have you but you never feel part of that until you actually contribute. And tonight i started to prove i wearing no. 41 As he did with the new York Meis Clave Anc Lerson twice the Cincinnati reds and the Chicago Whiteson the three time by Young award Winner began the fifth dimension of his career As the red sox fifth starter. My relationship with John Mcnamara is the same As it was when i was in Cincinnati with him Seaver said. Hell ask me How i feel and i la give him a straight answer then it s his decision after that. Afier the sixth inning he looked at me and isaid one More and he said you got it and after the seventh that was Seaver also was reunited in Boston with Bill Fischer his pitching coach with the reds. In the first inning i looked Over and Fisch was pointing to his left shoulder he said. To be technical that Means 1 was opening my left Side too quickly. That s the same signal we had in Mcnamara and Fischer were annoyed a published reports that they had nol approved of the Trade with the while sox last weekend. Seaver sup Posedly had imposed his pitching mechanics on the reds pitchers. I Don t know where that came from Mcnamara said. Back when Tom was in Cincinnati with me Frank Pastore and Tom Hume had some of their est at his locker outside Mcnamara s office the husky Fischer insisted that none of the reds pitch ers were unduly influenced by Saver s pitching motion. Nobody tried to pitch like Seaver did Fischer said. Hume had his Best years in 1979, 1980, 1981 and 1982 when Tom was there then Hume got Hurt going after a Fly Ball. Pastore had Good years. All that Tom Ever did with the other pitchers was talk totem about How to set up hitters. But All pitchers talk to each other. You want them to talk to each other. And if a Young Pitcher talks to somebody you want him to talk to somebody who s going to win300 games not to somebody who can t win three games. But he never fooled around with their mechanics. He never bothered nobody. No Clyde King the Yankees general manager has been quoted As saying that Dunn the two White sox games in which he scouted Seaver the 41-year-Oldright-hander s fastball was never timed above 86 Mph. That s what King s saying now because Tom isomer Here instead of being Down there Fischer said. But when Tom pitched against us twice in april his fastball did t seem to have changed that much from what it was in Cincinnati when we were there. On Given Day his fastball was always up around 90 Back other baseball people contend that Seaver s fastball this year was timed consistently at 89 Mph. All that stuff about Bill and me not wanting Tom Here is crazy Mcnamara said. Do you know How Long we be been trying to get him Here since the Winter meetings in san Diego that s How during those meetings the red sox traded Short Stop Jackie Gutierrez to the Baltimore orioles. Jackie wore 41 for us last year Mcnamara that Deal i asked our clubhouse Man Vince Orlando to keep that number if he could. I knew i we Ever got Tom he would want that number. And thankfully it worked rangers Harris tame tigers from press dispatches Arlington Texas there Are several reasons Why the Texas Range shave become winners instead of losers this year. One of them is that just be cause the opposition threatens to go ahead in the late innings does not meant will automatically do so. Greg Harris has seen to threw two innings of witless re Lief Friday night to Cam his 15th save and secure a 2-1 Victory for the division leading rangers Over the Detroit was the 12th time in his last 14 appear ances thai Harris has protected Lead and his dutch pitching came before the second largest crowd in Arlington stadium history a throng of 42,485 lured by Post game fireworks and the fact that the rangers Are suddenly a hot attraction themselves. That was a typical Relief said. You come in with people on base and you be got to make the right pitches with none out in the eighth and swoon Harris came in to replace starter and Winner Jose Guzman 8-8. Lance Fairis promptly lined into a double play and american league Darrell Evans popped out. Harris struck out two in the ninth. Detroit s Jack Morris 7-6, went the distance but lost for the second straight time. He has allowed Only five runs i those two losing appearances. We just did t Jet him enough runs Detroit manager Sparky Anderson said. It in t the first time that s escaped trouble in the third when right fielder Kirk Gibson caught Pete Incaviglia s two out bases loaded drive at the Wall but surrendered the rangers two runs in the fourth. Larry Parrish delivered a one out Solo Homer his 13th of the season and one out later the rangers produced another run on a single by Steve Buechele and a triple from Curtis scored in the fifth thanks to an error by Steve Buechele at third. With Dave Collins on second and Lou Whitaker on first Alan Trammel hit grounder to Buechele. He stepped on third to Force Collins but threw wildly to first allowing Whitaker to Catcher Don Slaught making his first appearance since being hit in the face by a Dennis Boyd fastball May 17, went o-for-4.in other games Friday Angels 9, Blue jays Toronto Don Sutton threw a four hitter for his 302nd career Victory and Rookie Jack Howell hit his first two homers of the season leading Californi easily Over Toronto. The 41-year-old Sutton 7-5, struck out three and walked two while picking up his fourth consecutive Victory. Lose Dave Stieb 2-9, lasted Only four innings and was rocked for five runs on five , who last season led the american league with a 2.48 Era surrendered pair of homers walked four and hit one Batter As his Era ballooned to 5.78.trailing 1-0, California took a 2-1 Lead with pair of runs in the fourth. Howell led off by driving a 1-1 delivery from Salieb into the left Field bleachers. Stie struck Brian Downing with a pitch and Rick Burleson singled him to Al on Page 26 Harris.15th save for Texas giants hand cardinals 8th straight loss from pros dispatches san Francisco Rookie Rand Kutcher. Who hit a Solo Homer and a two run single Friday to Lead the giants to a 6-1 Victory Over the St. Louis Cardi nals credited batting coach Jose Morales for his was the eighth straight loss for the defending National league champions and dropped them 23 games behind the new Yor Kmets in the National league has been working with me and told me to move my hands Down on inside pitches said Kutcher 26. I had to make a Little adjustment coming Here National league from triple a. The Home run came Onan inside Kutcher s offensive output helped Mike Lacoss 8-3, come away with the Victory. Lacoss was tagged for a run inthe first inning but retired 21 of the last 22 players he faced. Ray Burns 4-4, took the Felt a Little uneasy at the Start la Coss said. But when i got out of the third inning without a run when there was a Guy on second with no one out that was the turning Point. After that i Felt in command of the statistics speak for themselves the cardinals Vince Coleman said. Maybe Well come Back the next half and win 20 in a Row. There is a lot of Luck in this game. We had a lot of Luck last year and everything went our Way. This year we just Aren t getting the cardinals opened the scoring inthe first inning. Coleman Drew a Lead off walk stole second moved to third on aunt single by Ozzie Smith and scored on a single by Willie Mcgee. The giants tied it in their half of the first when Kutcher who has hit in 14 of his 16 games since coming up on june 19from Phoenix of the Pacific coast league hit a 1-1 pitch into the Francisco put the game away with a five run Youngblood and Chili Davis singled and cons Brown was hit by a pitch to Load the bases with no outs. Harry Spilman doubled Down the right Fieldine to score Youngblood and Davis to make it 3-1. With runners at second an third and one out Jose Uribe walked Lacoss bunted to Burns on a safety squeeze and Brown was forced at the plate. Kutcher followed with a two run see no on Page 26
