European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 29, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 26 the stars and stripes Friday. August 29,1986 mets Cut Short padres rally from press dispatches san Diego even those who have followed the ups and Downs of the am Azin mets for a Quarter of a Century would be hard pressed to recall a whack Ier finish. After All there Aren t Many games that end when a player singles into a game ending double play. Bui it happened wednesday night to san Diego s Tim Flannory in the Bottom of the Ilia inning. Mets Center fielder Len Dykstra made a perfect throw to Catcher John Gibbons who tagged Garry Templeton out at Home Ana threw to Howard Johnson to get the aggressive Flannory at third wrapping up a 6-5 vie i Roundup tory for the High flying mets. The mets blew a 5-0 Lead and what would have been Dwight Gooden s 14th Victory when the padres rallied against receivers Roger Mcdowell and Jesse Orosco for four runs in the eighth. New York went ahead in the top of the 11 the on a sacrifice Fly by Keith Hernandez. Astros 9, cubs t Houston Nolan Ryan pitched one hit Ball for six innings for his 250th career Victory and Phil gamer had four hits and drove in two runs As Houston trounced Chicago. Ryan 9-8, struggled with his control Early in his second straight Start yielding one hit and two walks in the first three innings before settling Down. Charlie Kelfield got his sixth save with five strikeouts in three innings. Reds 9, pirates 5 Pittsburgh Eric Davis hit the first grand slam of his major league Ca reer with two outs in the ninth inning to break a 5-5 tie and give Cincinnati a Vic tory Over Pittsburgh. Phillies 2, dodgers 1 los Angeles von Hayes two out single in the ninth inning got Phila Delphia by los Angeles. Rookie left hander Bruce Ruffin 7-3, pitched five hit Ball Over eight innings for his fourth consecutive Victory. Giants 3, expos 2 san Francisco Robby Thomp son raced Home with the winning run on Andy Mcgaffigan s second wild pitch in the eighth inning As san Francisco beat Montreal. Cardinals 2, braves 1 St. Louis Rick Mahler walked Terry Pendleton with the bases loaded in the eighth inning to Force in the run that put St. Louis Over Atlanta. 8 Bis in 18-11 Victory Over Hahn rams Davis makes 3 homers pay off writer Sembach Germany Ramstein s Bobby Davis who works in a military pay Section likes to hit to left Field. And that pays off for the rams. Yup i like to hit to left he chuckles when asked. Davis the rams Pitcher chuckled three times thursday at the Safe men s slow pitch softball tournament. It paid off As he powered three Home runs Over the left Field Fence in Ramstein s 18-11 thrashing of Hahn. Davis three Home runs were Good for eight runs batted in. The rams had five round trippers in their 22-Hil attack one each from Brian Dooley and Bobby Foley in the first inning. It was Davis who sealed the game in the fifth with a two run shot. The rams were up 14-11 going into the fifth when they tallied four runs with two outs. Larry Beno singled to right. David Mudge followed with a single to right Center and the runners advanced to Sec Ond and third on a Ray Pilgrim error. Mike Meyer doubled Home Beno and Mudge then Davis followed with his third shot for the 18-11 final margin. Davis in t intimidated by the Tele phone wire in left that has caused several apparent Home runs to be relegated to ground Rule doubles. You Don t go up and change your swing just because of the wire. I just go up there and hit it Davis said. And Davis knows with Tommy Tucker and Randy Strayer following him in the order there in t too much other teams can do about him. With Tommy and Randy batting be Hind me other teams know they can put the Ball out just As easy As me. Other teams can t walk me. That s the Way this team is built. If one player gels stopped someone else Down the line picks them up Davis said. The 34-year-old Pitcher also respects Span Dahlem the Continental sports conference Champion that scored 37 runs wednesday. In a contest quickly shaping up As the one that decides who gets through this round Robin tournament undefeated the sabers will take on the rams saturday at 4 30 . They May meet again in the championship game sunday at noon. Span Dahlem beat everyone in the Csc Ana they hit Torrejon hard. They deserve everything they be gotten so far. They re As Good if not better than any team Here Davis said. But Davis added there s two teams 19 beat Here. Us and them. That s my other thursday action featured big innings. Span Dahlem had 8 and 7-Runframes in crushing in Ciurlik 30-4 upper Heyford which first belted Chicksands 13-5, later rallied for 9 runs in the seventh to Best Ben Waters 16-13 Hahn came up with 8 runs in the seventh to Edge defeat Chicksands 13-8 Ben Waters nipped Torrejon 4-3 in nine innings and in Ciurlik nipped Torrejon 4-3. Spang joined Ramstein at 3-0 in the round Robin standings followed by incur Lik and Hahn at 2-1. Other Are Heyford at 2-2, Torrejon and Ben Waters 1-3 and Chicksands 0-4. Span Dahlem 30, in Ciurlik 4 Jim Watson and David Boslooper hit Back to Back homers and Rocky Sassy added a 3-run shot and Odis Mitchell a two run blast to fuel Spang s seven run first inning and the rout was on. Watson later added a second Solo or in the fourth. Sassy hit one out in the fourth but lost it due to the five run Homer Rule. Tim Brown had four Bis for the winners. Joe Pitassi had two Bis in defeat upper Heyford 16, Ben Waters 13 trailing 10-7 going into their last turn the sky Kings rallied for nine runs including Tom Madigan s two run or. John Hamilton slugged a two run Shotin the fourth and had four Bis and Jim mean had a Solo Belt in the sixth forthe victors. Cliff Earls had a two run or and joined John Warren with three Bis each for the phantoms whose three run rally in the Bot Tom of the seventh fell Short. Upper Heyford 13, Chicksands 5 Woody Jones drove in three runs two on a seventh inning or and Hamilton and madman also hit circuit clouts in Heyford s first tournament Victory. James Steele and Ronald Benscoter had Solo homers for the losers. Hahn 13, Chicksands 8 Bob Pointer s Solo Homer and Clin Morris s two main single keyed an eight run seventh inning As the Hawks wiped out an 8-5 deficit in besting Chicksands. Morris who had a two run or in the fifth wound with four Bis for hah which also had out of the Park Bells by Leon Deer and Brad Rodgers. Darryl Rivers plated three runs for the Chicks two on a fifth inning Homer. Ben Waters 4, Torrejon 3 the phantoms took this nine inning affair when Rod Rodriguez drove in Frank Lyons from third with a single. Arbi single by Tony Hamilton and Randy James sacrifice Fly had tied the score 3-3 in the seventh inning and sent the game into extra innings. Earls hit a two run or for Ben Waters. Indriik4,tomjoa3pitassi s single an error and a fielder Choice broke a 3-3 tie for in Ciurlik. Tom Kornak also Hod a Solo Homer and two Bis for the victors. James had a Solo Homer for Torrejon. Braves stun sky Queens with big Frame hell Nikon a Greece incur Lik s braves trailing 11-4 in the fifth at the Safe women s slow pitch championships thursday did t let that get them Down. The Mediterranean sports Confer ence s no. 2 team dropped behind 7-1 Early then 11-4 before cranking up an11-run rally in the fateful fifth. The braves went on to drop upper Heyford from the . Conference 16-11 to High Light second Day tourney action. A pair of two run doubles climaxed the big Frame with Kim Lester s two Bagger tying the score at 11 and Laura Hunt s clout driving Home two More. Lester wound up with four hits including a pair of doubles for three Bis. Sonya Long and Sheika Kiker added three hits apiece for in Ciurlik. Linda Mcdermott and Lisa Lamell sparked Heyford to its Early Lead. Mcdermott got three hits scored three times and drove in two runs. Lamell slugged a bases Clearing double for the sky Queens 11-4 margin. In Ether thursday action unbeaten Ramstein continued its relentless hitting with two More victories a 19-11 Triumph Over Sembach and an 8-2 Triumph Over Ben Waters. Sembach shocked in Ciurlik with six unearned runs in the Bottom of the seventh for a 13-8 Conquest. Pitburg continued unbeaten with an 11-4 Victory Over Mildenhall and Mac Champion hell Nikon topped Ben Waters 7-4. Ramstein led the round Robin action with a 4-0 record and Pitburg improved to 3-0. Hell Nikon trailed at 2-1, in Ciurlik was 2-2, Heyford 1-2. Sembach 1-3, Mildenhall 0-2 and Ben Waters 0-3. Ramstein 19, Sembach 11 Dana Gish drove in four runs with two hits and scored three times and Candy Mcneil had three hits and three runs for the rams who helped the tigers cause with eight errors. Carol Pawling with three hits and three Bis and Cindy Croft with two hits and three runs paced Sembach. Ramstein 8, Ben Waters 2 banging out 19 hits the lady rams broke a 1-1 tie with four runs in the third highlighted by Gish s two run Dou ble. Gish had two hits and scored twice for the winners. . Cueva and Laurie Wilson had three hits each for the winners. Jess Ybarra had two hits and scored both Ben Waters runs. Sembach 13, Indr Tik 8 in Ciurlik was within an easy grounder to the Mound of posting an 8-7 Victory when a wild throw opened the Gates. Amy Heider climaxed the rally with a three run Homer for the lady tigers first Victory after three setbacks. Becky Yaeger had two hits and three Bis and Sharon Ramsey scored four times and had two hits for Sembach. Janet Dejardines had three Bis Forin Ciurlik including a two run single for the go ahead runs in the top of the sixth for the braves. Mary Smith also had two hit for the losers. Pitburg 11, Mildenhall 4 a seven run second inning wiped out a 3-2 deficit and the lady Barons went on to defeat the marauder ettes. Becky Erickson and sue Cruz had two run Dou Bles to key Pitburg s big inning. Erickson wound up with three Bis for the lady Barons. Hell Nikon 7, Ben Waters 4 Joanna Gray and Kathy Watson with three hits each. Benwa ters rallied from 7-0 with four runs in the seventh. Wednesday s cores Pitburg bombed upper Heyford 20-5 and edged in Ciurlik 9-8 m 9 innings. Csc Champion Ramstein blanked Mildenhall 13-0 and Defeated hell Nikon 11-7. In other action hell Nikon trounced Sembach 16-6, in Ciurlik nipped Benwa ters 6-5, and upper Heyford Bounce Sembach 18-6. Arn sports television pro football los Angeles rams a Denver Broncos 2 un., saturday. Nil highlights Green Bay packers tape delayed5 to a-ra., saturday. Radio baseball Chicago cubs at atlant braves 1 to �.m, saturday
