European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 13, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 the stars and stripes saturday june 13,1987 Bell homers twice As jays win by the associated press Baltimore George Bell hit two Home runs in a game for the sixth time this season and drove in six runs As the red hot Toronto Blue jays held on to de feat the Baltimore orioles 8-6 thursday for their ninth consecutive win. Bell the american league Leader with 23 homers and 60 Bis has five Home Sand 14 Bis in his last four games. Toronto s winning Streak equals the club record accomplished in each of the past two seasons. The Blue jays have also won 12 of 13 games. The orioles have lost eight straight and 12 of 13. Three games in the Al East. Toronto led 7-1 before the orioles got five runs in the seventh sparked by Mike Young s three run Homer. Al Roundup Bell hit a Solo Homer in the first of Rookie John Habyan 1-2, after Tony Fernandez doubled on the first pitch of the game and scored on grounders by Ranee Mulliniks and Jesse Barfield. Bell s fourth career grand slam came in the fifth after Fernandez tripled with two outs and Habyan walked Mulliniks and Barfield. Boston s Ellis Burks and Marty Barrett also hit grand slams against Baltimore on wednesday in a 15-4 rout. Bell who fell one rib Short of his Ca Lynn in the fourth before being relieved with one out in the seventh following singles by Cal Ripken or. And Larry sheets and a run scoring double by Ray Jeff Musselman yielded a run scoring one run ainu in � . Single to Terry Kennedy and then was other and then Morns Madden came in replaced by Mark Eichom after Young to walk Home the third. Hit his Homer. Tom Henke pitched the Gle that started a three run seventh in Ning rally As Milwaukee beat Detroit. The Brewers trailed 4-3 entering the seventh but came out of it with a 6-4lead. Detroit reliever Eric King walked in one run and hit a Batter to Force in an Winner Joe Johnson 3-5, allowed six hits including a Solo Homer by Fred 1111 ill ii Iii Momii ninth inning for his 11th save. The Blue jays scored an insurance run in the top of the ninth on Kelly Gruber s fourth Homer of the season. Baltimore manager Cal Ripken or. Was ejected by Home plate Umpire Larry Barnett for arguing a strike Call against his son Cal Ripken jr., in the eighth. In other games  8. Tigers 5 Detroit Mike Felder had five hits including a two run triple and a sin Wimbledon tuneup time Becker shows form in London London a Wimbledon and Boris Becker Are As inseparable As strawberries and Cream. As Becker pre pares to defend his Wimbledon men s singles Crown for the Sec Ond time the 19 year old West German has been in sparkling form powering his Way into the quarterfinals of Becker the $300,000 tournament at Queen s club in West London. Becker says he s surprised at How Well he s playing and is eager to get Back on the Center court at Wimbledon his favor Ite grand slam tournament i can t wait to get out there at 2 o clock on that first monday. I won t feel any pressure he said. Whoever i play 111 go out and enjoy it. Wimble Don is my  in his latest grass court tuneup at Queen s club a tournament he won m 1985 on the Way to his first Wimble Don title Becker registered 10 aces thursday in beating John Sadri also known As a big server 6-4, 6-4. Becker lost Only seven Points in 10 service games six of them won at love. I did not expect to be playing so Well on grass after just two Days Becker said. Queens Means much More to me than any Warmup tournament it was my first big win in  Becker knows that some Day the Wimbledon love affair will have to end and that he won t be holding aloft the gleaming Silver trophy on the last Day of the championships. One Day i la lose there i know that he said. Even Bjorn Borg did after five years. But i Hope not to lose this year. I be improved so much As a  Becker was to meet american David Pate Friday in a quarterfinal match. Jimmy Connors a three time Cham Pion Here was to resume his sus Pended match against Nigeria s Nduka Dizor. Connors was leading 7-5, 2-3 when the match was suspended on account of darkness on thursday. Only one seed was eliminated by an unseeded player thursday. Israel s Amos Mansdorf seeded 14th, lost 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 to Eric Jesien of West Germany. Several grass court experts including no. 2 seed Stefan Edberg and no. 6 Tim Mayotte the defending Champi on received scares thursday. Edberg survived two rain delays to beat Wady Masur of Australia 6-7, 7-6, 6-4. Mayotte beat qualifier and fellow american Richey Reneberg 6-4,7-6. Mayotte led 6-4, 5-1, 0-40 on Rene Berg s serve but suddenly fell apart. Reneberg saved four match Points broke Mayotte twice to level at 5-5 an took the set into a tiebreaker. He saved a fourth match Point before going Edinburgh Scotland a Ivan Lendl ranked no. 1 in the world began his tuneup for the Wimble Don Tennis championships with a 7-6, 7-5 Victory thursday Over his coach Tony Roche and then emphasized the importance of winning the grand slam event. After beating Lendl Roche an australian in the quarterfinals of the $160,000 scottish grass court championships Lendl said he would Swap his last two French open titles for one Wimbledon title. Lendl s one hour 21-minute match Lendl notches win in Scotland Down 6-4, 7-6. These sort of things happen May Otto said. For sure it s annoying but he came up with some great  Edburg was in trouble for it sets against Masur. The australian took the opening set and broke Edberg in the first game of the second before rain interrupted play for 35 minutes. When the match resumed Breaks were exchanged and Masur led 4-3, 30 30 when a thunderstorm forced the players off for 2 i hours. Two shots changed the course of the match on the second resumption. The swede ripped off two stinging service returns took Masury serve and squared the match when he won the tie breaker with the loss of just one Point Edberg broke at the Start of the final set for a 2-0 Lead and that spelled the end of Masur s Challenge. I had my doubts about whether i could win said Edberg the two time australian open Champ. I got some Luck when i needed it. I could not have hit those two returns better. After that i began to believe in  in the quarterfinals Edberg s oppo nent will be australian Pat Cash who downed Kevin Curren 7-5,6-3. Cash beat Edberg in the Davis cup final in Melbourne in december. One month later Edberg gained revenge in the final of the australian open. Against Roche was Little More than a exhibition As the czechoslovakian native adapted his play from the slow Clay courts of Roland Garros in pans to the Type of fast grass courts he will encounter at Wimbledon. The losing finalist last year Lindl never has won the Wimbledon title. Of the four grand slam championships australian French Wimbledon and . He has won the French three times and the . Twice. My aim is to win All four major titles and i would give up last Sun Day s win in France with last year s thrown in to win Wimbledon lend said. He figured that West German Bori Becker Wimbledon Champion the past two years would go into this year s tournament As the favorite. He has been playing extremely Well on grass but i m not worried about him Lendl said. Lendl s usual pre Wimbledon Rou Tine is to return Home to Connecticut immediately after the French open rather than stay in Europe. Instead he decided to stay and get acclimated to grass. I did something i was not thrilled about staying in Europe he said. "1 feel homesick by being away for a total of 10 weeks. I am not enjoying it but i want to give myself the Best Chance at Wimbledon. It is the biggest goal i can  Roche a 42-year-old left hander who won the French open in 1966, said Lendl would be much better pre pared for Wimbledon this time. Ivan has grown More confident on grass after reaching the final last year he said. Juan Castillo s eighth inning single drove Home two More runs or the brew ers to offset Detroit homers by John Grubb Chet Lemon and Darrell  in Chicago Chicago the game Between the Minnesota twins and the Chicago Whiteson was postponed because of rain and was rescheduled As part of a twi night doubleheader  away was a two run Homer by Kent Hrbek of the twins in top of the first inning. Braves rally in 8th inning to beat reds by the associated press Cincinnati Glenn Hubbard s two run double broke an eighth inning tie and Gene Garber got his 200th career save thursday As the Atlanta braves beat the Cincinnati reds 6-4.ken Griffey who collected three hits including a Home run in the fifth led off the decisive eighth with a single against Rob Murphy 3-2. After Griffey stole second andr Sthomas Drew a walk and both runners no Roundup advanced on Ozzie Virgil s sacrifice. Hubbard then lined his rib double into the right Field  pitched the final two innings for his sixth save of the season. He be came just the sixth major league Pitcher to reach 200 saves. Rollie fingers is the All time Leader with 341. Reliever Charlie Pulco won his first decision of the  Murphy hit an rib double in the first and Dion James stuck in a Nve-for-52 slump bad a run scoring single in the second that gave the braves a 2-0 Lead off Ted  reds scored four times in the Bot Tom of the second off Larry Mew Iiams making his second Start for the braves since being recalled from class a Greenville. Tracy Jones had a one out rib single and Barry Larkin batting just .211 hit a three run Homer his fifth of the season. In other games thursday astros 1, dodgers 0 los Angeles Jim Deshaies and two relievers teamed on a four hitter As Houston beat Fernando Valenzuela and los Angeles. Deshaies 5-2, gave up four hits in 6 i 3 innings and won his third straight Deci Sion. He walked four and struck out two. Larry Andersen pitched i 2-3 witless innings and Dave Smith finished for his 12th save. Giants 1, padres 0 san Francisco Kelly Downs pitched a seven hitter for his third shut out of the season As san Francisco beat san Diego. Downs 5-2, became the National league Leader in shutouts. His first was a three hit 1-0 Victory at san Diego on april 15.downs struck out six and walked four. The right hander escaped from two bases loaded situations Early in the game. Downs got Randy ready to ground into a game ending double play with runners at first and third