European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 30, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday july 30,1966 the stars and stripes Page 23 commentary to rfcs con count on Skinny Guy now it was the stuff of fairy talks the kind of scenario that Mother Goose and her Gaggle of scribes would have been Happy id Hatch. Here was this 35-year-old, left handed Pitcher slightly buit Guy wifi a Black Mustache and a funny number number 49 a number that an unlikely candidate in Spring training would be Given. The Skinny Guy who would never be mistaken for Paul Bunyan or refrigerator Perry or Hulk Hogan or any number of certified american heroes but who arrives at Yankee stadium after having pitched most recently for a double a farm club last wednes Day and goes to the Mound against the Minnesota twins. Even though he last pitched three innings for the Yankees Albany Colonie farm team in the Eastern league Yankee management and fandom were hopeful that he could galvanize a sagging pitching Salt and help the yanks in second place in the Eastern division catch the red sox whom they Trail by three games. "1 know what my responsibilities ate he said before sunday s game All i can do is my Best Achilles said something along the same line before he shipped out for Troy was he dreaming about How he was going to pitch these batters he said. There Are so Many things for Pitcher to think about that you can actually psyche yourself out of a game. If you re thinking about going mainly with your fastball but it s your Slider that s really working for you when you re warming up be fore the game walk then that would throw your whole game plan on i go with what s reacting bes for me so now out goes this Skinny Guy to the Mound an takes a deep breath you can see the Guy s Chest inflate somewhat and then he relaxes winds up a Berkow and heaves the Ball homeward. The first Batter of Kirby puck Cut the third leading hitter in the american league. The Skinny Pitcher strikes him out. He strikes out the next Bai Ter Gary Gaetti and the next Kent Hrbek who is one of the league s Best Home ran hitters. Three Bat ten 13 pitches five minutes. Of course the Pitcher looks very familiar to the Home crowd and to the batters he s facing for in i no secret this is Ron Guidry Louisiana lightning or Gator to his closest associates. And he s hum Ming the Ball and whipping that hard Slider the Way Many had remembered him As surely the Best Yan Kee Pitcher in recent years. But he had been struggling this season he had a4-8 record before being hit on the pitching hand with a smash and suffering a Cut Between his Index an Middle lingers and was relegated to the sidelines for three weeks while lie healed and when he was Bel Ter he found that throwing batting practice and throwing on the sidelines weren t enough to get his pitching rhythm Back. He needed some actual game tension and thus the one shot at Albany. Now he had a piece of tape Over the Cut but the umpires would make him remove the tape before he rubs when i throw the Ball Guidry said but 1 Don t think it s going to bother in the second inning the first two batters Guys Aren t just missing the Ball by a Little they re missing by a lot it looks like they re up there Blind folded and swinging at the sound of the Ball whizzing by them. The Pitcher is rearing Back and working pretty fast and pumping so Nice and you re feeling hat he s feeling so confident and when the third baiter in thinning Ron Washington grounds out to shortstop some of the crowd of 30,312, lets out a deeply disappointed Ohhi because it was t a strikeout and the Skinny Pitcher was t going to strike out six in arow or 27 in a Row. But that s another kind of Miracle. This is Goodenough for now and the crowd cheers him madly. In the third the first Batter for the twins Mickey Hatcher who has t hit a Home run in 194 at Ami this season nil a Home run a solid shot into the tuft Fuld seats. Does this mean trouble that this stupendous debut is now going Down the Drain not at All. Gui dry gets out of the inning adding another strikeout and pitches five Strong innings striking out a remarkable nine batters giving up three hits walking one and allowing just that one run. Guidry had said before the game that Lou Piniella the Yankee manager would t let me go More than five or six innings. Sort of getting my feet the Yankee batters puffed themselves up and did some damage for him. They gave him a 3-1 Lead a major blow being Claudell Washington s two run Homer in the fifth and he would be the Winner if the Yankees could hold the Lead Rod Scurry and Dave Righetti kept the twins Bailers baffled. The Yankees scored another run in the seventh and Guidry resumed to Gator s Cor Ner his old spot in the Yankee locker room with his first win since May 10."it was a big game for me said Guidry. The big thing is they can count on me it was Achilles or maybe it was refrigerator Perry who said something along the same line it in vat than european Little league tournament Torre on sluggers topple Naples 9-3 by John e. Smith suit write Wiesbaden Germany it started Oul As a Battle Between the pitchers of two undefeated teams tuesday but Tor Rejon s sluggers soon took Over beating Naples 9-3 on the fourth Day of the Junior division Ages 11-12 of the euro Pean Little league tournament. In the Day s other games. Saudi Arabi trounced the United kingdom s bunt a tors 19-2 behind the one hit pitching of Mundy Ransom and Brussels beat Fel Low Belgium team shape 12-5.in the Torrejon Spain Naples Italy Battle both pitchers had no hitlers going until the Bottom of the third inning when Torrejon waiters heated up an scored seven runs. The attack included a Home run by Freddie harder and hits by David Bruno Mike Denny and Chris by Bruno and Frankic Sisneros along with another single by Denny gave Spain another run in the fourth Spain s final run came in the fifth inning on a double by harder and a single by managed to get one run in the fourth and two More in the sixth but could not do anything More against apr scion s Denny who gave up five hits while striking out 12, for the win. Denny also ii Ted at Bat with the two hits and to Bis. Sisneros and harder also had two hits and Sisneros harder and Chris Johnson joined Denny with two malt Smith came through with two hits Aad Keith Baker Kore Blecher and Jacob Urso had one rib apiece in the losing cause. Xavier saw absorbed the loss. The Victory was Torrejon s fourth in see Toh Lejon on Page 25 Sib re by do Dato Torrejon s Freddie Hirdt gets a rousing Wrt come from tar mites after Homer against Naples to Little league Toone Unell
