European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 6, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday july 6.19b7 the stars and stripes Page 23 Oakland Rookie mme Mcgwire helped Power the a j to i her 9-5 in Over the red sox by belting his 29th Home run. Oakland bats Bury botox 9-5 by the associated press Oakland. Calif. Jose Canseco and Rookie Mark Mcgwire the slug Gers in the Middle of the Oakland Atn Lect Ici lineup both Tay they re Strug gling it the plate Hoe Days. Ever hitter should have such problems. Canseco set off the a s july 4th Fine works with a bases loaded double in the first inning then added his 16th Homer in the fifth after Mcgwire hit his major league leading 29th Homer with a Man on. Between them the accounted for us runs in Oakland s 9 5 Victory Over Bruce Hurst and he Boston red son. Canseco hit a Forknall for the Dou ble and a fastball Tor the Homer Sandhurst 9-4. Mcgwire hit a Low curve. Those tit my three pitches. It was just a Nice piece of , but not enough to satisfy the Al Roundup Low key Canseco and m not really a consistent As i want to be right now " said fitted in the designated Hilter spot. Hilling ability and sometimes Luck. Hurst threw me a Good for Balland i hit it off the end of the bal Canseco said he does t mind shift ing from left Field to do for a while. Right now it s Corning Al a goo time he said. I be been tired lately and having some knee problems and backaches. H s a Good time to give me a 79 games Mcgwire is Only one shy of the Halfway Point to the magic number of 60 homers Cyl he insists he s still nol comfortable at in plate and does t think about chasing babe Ruth or Roger you wish you Don t hear it All the time but it s hard to get away from Mcgwire said. I can t think about it when i go 10 inc plate. It just s been happening a lot lately. Mcgwire though says he is still learn ing and is bothered by striking Outwith the bases loaded in Hii last it Bat Friday Aud twice saturday."1 learn from the Good Days and inc bad Day he said. I m not feeling inc greatest at the Plale so i be got to Star from Square one and work out my problems. I was battling today trying to see the bait Oakland starter Jose Rijo gained his first Victory after four losses. Rijo Al Lowed 11 hits and five runs Over 7vi innings and Dennis eckersly finished see Al on Page 26 cardinals shut out Atlanta 3-0 by the a a Ted press Atlanta St. Louis Pitcher Danny can. Walked seven Bailers in six innings saturday but he survived his wild neti without allowing any rum because be had Craig Nettles number. Getting Nettles three times with the bases tended in t going 10 happen Loo often cardinals manager Whitey Hinog said after St. Louis 3-0 Victory Over the Atlanta braves. Before retiring Nettles for inc third time with two outs and the bases loaded Cox walked Ken Griffey the h Itter ahead of Nettles. The Lut time i faced Griffey he got three Hiu Cox 8-3, said. I Weso t oink u Pilch to him in thai situation ind hopefully 1 could gel Neu Letout. I was Lucky. He hit the Ball hard the Oune of the game is to hit it where they Aren t Nettles said. "1 did t do Ihl speedster Vince Coleman had a pair of to tiles scored twice and knocked in Mother run for the Cardinal. Todd Worrell got the last five outs for his 17th save despite allowing iwo i Roundup Hiu in the tingled in the tint inning off loser Zane Smith stole hit 52ndbase and scored from second on Tommy Herr s infield hit. In the fifth con tripled and scored on a Tingle by Coleman who Lien came Home on Ozzie Smith s doable. In other games saturday plnl4, do genl Pittsburgh Bob Kipper limited los Angela to one run ind four hits aver 6 i innings and Andy Van Slyck had three extra base Hiu As Pitts Burgh Beai the dodgers Van Slyck had a triple and iwo Dou Bles and scored twice. He has four extra base hits in Bis aft iwo games. The dodgers ended a i break of 21 scoreless innings on Phil gamer s Sec Ond inning sacrifice Fly and Pedro Guerrero drove in a run with a single in the 9, attn 3 Philadelphia von Hayes drove in four runs Wilh two Homert and a double and Ron Roenicke High lighted a four run fifth inning with Atwo run double As Philadelphia beat Houston. Hayes hit his 10th Homer in the seventh and a two run hot in Lite eighth. He doubled in a run in the first. Tom Hume 1-0, appearing in his 29th game but starting for Only the Sec Ond time gave up eight hits and three earned runs in sit innings. Mike Jack son pitched the final three innings for his first major league save. Jim Deshaies 8-3, was the loser snapping a Slcak of sin victories. Coin 5, Gunti 3 Chicago Rick Sutcliffe be came the Fidfl National league Pitcher with ii wins and Bob Dernier had three hits including a Homer in four Al Bafs us Chicago beat san Francuck. Std iffy 11-4, gave up eight Hiu including a two run Homer by Chrt Brown and a Solo shot by Chiti Davis As 20-Mph winds at Wrigley Field blew from Center to left Field. Sulci Fri struck out a season High 10 and walked iwo in eight innings. After a Mcadoff single by Davis in the Smith relieved Sutcliffe and got see in on Page 26 Wouita cram win in Norway Oslo Norway a said Wouita and Steve cram the fastest Middle Dis Tance runners in history won their respective races but failed to come close to their world records during saturday s Bis Lett games rack and held meet. Wouita look the 1,500 meters in 3 minutes. 30.69 seconds More than a Sec Ond off his world record or 3 21.46. A Short Lime later. Cram won the dream mile the final event of the meet in 3 50.08, 3.76 seconds slower than the world record he set Here two Yean ago each Man was helped by excellent Pace making and was under world re Cord Pace in his race. Bui neither could maintain the Pace in the final Lap. Wouita who came within .44 seconds of cram s mile record in a race at Helsinki on thursday was More than a second ahead of his world record split time Atixhe 800-meter Mark saturday but ran out of Gas a Lap later. I really tried to beat the world record Bill the conditions were not very Good said Wouita whose Lime was Llic seventh fastest Ever. I think it was Loo Windy and cold. Still. I m Happy with my time. It was Good preparation for the 5,000 meters which he will run in the world championships at Rome later this summer. Cram s split Lime after 1,200 meters in the mile was More than two seconds fas Ter than his time in 1983, when he was chased in the final Lap. This Lime he Walsall alone in front after american James May paced the first two laps. The last 200 meters were awfully Dow cram said. The first 1,200 were Abdil bile of Somalia was second in inc 1,500 in 3 32.73. Third went to Steve Crabb of Britain in 3 33.34. Charle Manila of inc United Stiles was seventh in 3 38.61.jim Spivey who won the 1,500 in inc Usa championships Lut week finished second in the mile in 3 51.91 and Marcus o Sullivan of Ireland we third in 3 54.29. Steve Scott the american record Holder was fifth in 3 s 7.33. Long distance Queen Ingrid Kristian sen also opened strongly Bui failed to beat the women s 10,000-Melcr record for the third consecutive year. Krill Ianson running alone in front a usual settled for the fasten time of inc year 31 15.66. She was almost two min utes behind the world record of 30 13.74 she ran Here last year. Kristianscn who also holds the world5,000-Mclcr record and has the fastest Marathon time Ever by a woman has been troubled by an ankle injury recently but said it did nol bother her in the race. "1 started very fast perhaps too fast he Aid. Fatima Whitbread and Linfor Christie a pair of British european champions turned in Strong performances in other events before 19,262 Fiot Bileti stadium. Whit read uncorked the second Best javelin throw in history by a woman 250 feet 5 inches. She set the world record of 254-1 a , the european 100-meter Champ inn he 200 meters in a personal record of 20.411 seconds. .01 ahead of american Floyd heard. Heard was ranted no. I in the world Lut year and athe last Man to beat olympic Champion Carl a twin in inc More than 200 athletes from 35 nation entered the meet which tradition ally has one of inc Iron Natl Fields of the european
