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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 12, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday june 12,1987 the stars and stripes Page 21 aces of different eras former new York met wound Ace Tom sexier left joins Pitcher Dwight Good in on to dugout itts. Setter is Bull from planned retirement to help bolster the met suit on wednesday Gooden pitched his second Victory i 13-2 win oct the Cuba since completing drag rehabilitation program. Sports Gooden pitches 8 Strong inning As mets rip cubs by the associated press Chicago the new York acts hitters made things easy for Dwight Gooden in his first Road Start since re Luming from drag rehabilitation. And Gooden appreciated it. It was a lot easier with thai Lead said Gooden who was slaked to an 8-0advantage in the first three innings on Home runs by Gary Carter Tim Teufel and Keith Hernandez who also homered in the sixth  acts ended up with 19 hits and a 13-2 Victory As Gooden went eight innings striking out 0 and walking none while allowing eight hits and both rum. I Fel great 1 had my control Early and got the breaking Ball Over Gooden said. With the Lead 1 was Able to Experiment More and i threw a lot More curves and  Gooden who went 6vi innings in beat ing Pittsburgh 5-1 in his first Start last Friday threw 120 pitches and lost his bid for a shutout when Shawon Duns on homered with two outs in the seventh and the mets leading 12-0. He said retired in the eighth when he allowed the second run on Brian Dayall i rib triple and pitching coach Mel Stol Lemyre visited the Mound i just told Mel to let me finish the eighth said Gooden who finished the inning by making Leon Durham his 10th strikeout victim the 32nd time in 101 Carter Start he has struck put 10 or More. Doug Sisk pitched the ninth. As for the crowd reaction Gooden said he did t hear anything but noise Between the lines. Bui there were some negative things said on the Side he said. Just some negative  said he considered it an Excel Lent Road test not because of the fans but because of the Ball Park and the Short porches it s one of the toughest Parks to Pilch in said Gooden fio is lt-2 lifetime against the cubs but suffered his first major league defeat at Wrigley Field in. No Roundup 1984.Carter, who had four hits said i thought he threw very Well. It was one of his belter performances. He had Excel Lent velocity and control manager Darcy Johnson also was pleased with Goodwn s performance which boosted his record to 2-0. Johnson com pared it to his 24-4 season two years ago. I thought he threw belter today than he did against Pittsburgh Johnson said. Getting an Early Lead helped him. He showed flashes of 1985 the Way he was  Mcreynolds had four hits in eluding a pair of doubles and Rafael Santana drove in three runs with a Dou ble and single As the mets broke a three game losing Streak with their Best Offen Sive performance of the season. It was just a matter of Lime for us to break Loose Johnson said. In other games wednesday giants 9, reds 4 Cincinnati Candy Maldonado it three doubles inducting one that drove in the go ahead run in the eighth inning As san Francisco beat  Victory moved the giants to with in one game of the first place reds in the National league West the teams split the first two games of the three game be  giants trailed 4-3 entering the eighth but rallied for four runs to take a 7-4  Bill Gullickson 7-3, was relieved by Rob Murphy in the eighth after Eddie Milner and Chris Speier singled to Start the  Leonard s Pinch hit sacrifice Fly off Murphy tied the game at 4-4 be fore Maldonado doubled to right driving Home Speier with the go ahead run. Harry Spilman s sacrifice Fly and Ivan dejesus1 rib single capped the rally. Keith Comstock 2-0, pitched a perfect Saa no on Page 26 Blue jays top Yonks for 8th in a Row by the associated press new York hot hitting George Bell connected far his major league Lead ing 21st Home run and Jimmy key combined with Tom Henke on a seven bitter wednesday As the Toronto Blue  the new York Yankees 4-1 for their eighth straight Victory. The Blue jays completed a three game sweep in which they outscored new York 21-3. Toronto which is within one Victory of tying the longest winning Streak in its history moved 2yi game ahead of the second place Yankees in the american league East. Bell hit a three run Homer in the third inning giving him an Al leading 54 Rols. Bell went seven-for-13 with three homers two doubles and eight Rols in the three game series. Lloyd mos by singled with one out in the third and stole second. After Jesse Barfield reached on third baseman Lynn Sakata s error. Bell hit a full count pitch from Tommy John 6-2, Over the left Field Fence. Key 8-3. Gave up one run on five hits in 754 innings. Henke finished for his oth save of the year. The Yankees scored in the fifth when Gary Ward was Safe on second baseman Manny Lee s error stole second and continued to third on Catcher Charli Moore s wild throw. He went Home on Henry Cotto s infield out. Toronto added a run in the ninth cashing in on Rick Ccrone s passed Ball his fourth in two games. In other games wednesday red sox 15, orioles 4 Baltimore Rookie Ellis Burks who drove in seven runs and Many bar rett each hit grand slams As Boston handed Baltimore its seventh straight loss. Burks hit a two run Homer Barrett went 4-for-s and Jim Rice knocked in three runs for the red sox who had 18 hits. Al Nipper pitched a seven hitter and Boston completed a three game sweep and won its fourth in a Row. Burks connected for his slam in the fourth off Rookie Eric Bell 5-4, after bos ton loaded the bases on a walk and sin Gles by Spike Owen and Marc Sullivan. It was his sixth Home run of the season including two slams. Barrett followed with the second of his three singles to finish Bell and came around to score on singles by Wade Boggs and Rice fora 5-1 Lead. Barrett hit his second career slam in a five run seventh against Jack o  Drew a bases loaded walk before Barrett hit his second Homer of the sea son the Only hit in the inning making it 11-3. Burks hit his two run Homer during a four run ninth against Ken Dinon. Rice who had an re single in the third and Owen each hit run scoring doubles. Nipper 5-5, yielded a Homer to Lee Lacy leading off the first inning but did not allow another hit until Ray Knight homered to open the fifth. Mike Young then tripled and scored on a ground Utby Rick Burison. Young had a sacrifice Fly in the  had three bib including two doubles and extended his hitting Streak to 13 games. Teammate Don Baylor was i by a Pilch for the 239th time four of the major league record held by Ron Hunt. Brewers 8, tigers 5 Detroit . Surhoff hit a three run Homer in the 10th inning As Milwaukee snapped Detroit s four game winning  King 3-5, started the 10th for the tigers and gave up a one out walk Zorob Deer and a single to Greg Brock. After Paul Molitor struck out Mark Thurmond relieved  hit the second pitch off thur mond to Center for his third Homer the Brewers third Home run of the game. Dan Plesac 2-0, pitched the last three see Al on Page 26  
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