European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 6, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday october 6,1987 the stars and stripes Page 21 sports baseball readies an indelible Label for 87 Blue jays weft to tigers mob winning Pulcher Frank Tanana after final out of 1-0 Victory Over Toronto. Detroit a the Toronto Blue jays will have to live forever with the phrase that begins three and a half ahead with seven to the Philadelphia Phillies have lived with thai since 1964. Six and a half ahead with 12 to for every team that comes from far behind to win a baseball title there is a team that gets the Label of in 1964, the Phillies blew a 6 a game Lead allowing inc St. Louis cardinals to win the National league Lilly by one game. Detroit clinched the american league East tide with a 1-0 Victory Over Toronto on sunday to Cap a rally from 3 a games Back with eight to play while extending to seven the season ending losing Streak for the Blue jays. I m sure inc fans Are disappointed just As we re disappointed because we expected to win Toronto Pitcher Jimmy key said. Bui i Don t Sec How anybody can say we choked. That s not right. That s horrible. When you win 96 games. If that s choking what do you Call the other 24 cams who lost More i Don t think they she tigers wan cd it any More than we did. People Are going to think what they re going to think. But the Guys in Here know we did t choke. It s just that our Best is not Good enough right we beat them. They did t Lei us tigers designated hitter Bill Madlock said. Whatever it takes we went out and did it. We did a Good Job. We did t score Many runs but our pitching and defense was the key we just took care of de troit outfielder Kirk Gibson said. We re where we Are today because we went and got it. They did t hand us if you come up Short so be in to Ronto third baseman Ranee Mulliniks said. If you re concerned about what people might say you re not concentrating very hard. There will probably be people saying you choked you blew it but i Don t pay any attention to it Al Roundup of Homo three hit loser Jimmy key. Best not Good enough Ernie Whill who missed Toronto s last tour games after suffering cracked ribs called 1987 a lost anyone who fays they re Happy with the Way Vve finished up As far As i am concerned they re a White said. We just did t get inc Job done when we needed to. We left a lot of runners in scoring sunday s defeat seemed All the More see jays on Page 26 pirates gain respect with 4th place tie by the associated Preu when the san Francisco giants and is Louis Cardi nals meet in the opener of the National league championship series tuesday night the Pittsburgh pirates will be looking ahead to Spring training with anticipation. We gained some respect this year but there s still a Way logo pirates Catcher Mike Lavalliere said. No body s satisfied with fourth place because we re looking for bigger and better things. But at least we Don i have 10 go into be i season with thai last place the pirates completed the season with a 4-2 Victory Over Philadelphia sunday and three game sweep of the Phillies that left the teams tied for fourth in the no East. After a 46-99 Start the pirates won 34 of their last 57 games to finish out of last place for the first time since 1983, a crowd of 26,734 Ai three Rivers stadium for the finale treated in Young team like a Pennant Winner after the gome the fans stood and applauded As the players came out of he dugout Many of them throwing their Caps to the fans. That was really important for All of us Pitcher Jim Coll said. I think some of the Guys were a Little disappointed by some of the Small crowds we be had at times but if you win consistently Tike we have been. No Roundup no playoff preview on Page 25 people will come Pittsburgh trailed 2-1 with two outs and nobody on in the eighth but Mackey Sasser singled and Barry Bonds walked to Start the winning rally against Steve Bedrosian 5-3. Jose land then singled Home Sasser and Bonds scored the go ahead run when right fielder Keith Hughes threw the Ball to the Backstop. Land battled one of the toughest pitchers in the league manager Jim Leyland said. He kept fighting off pitches and something Good happened. Thar s the Way things went far us the list 38 Andy Van Slyke followed with another single to score Lind with an insurance run. Rookie Mike Dunne 13-6. Allowed two runs in sight innings to become the pirates leading Winner despite no joining the team from the minors until june i. Jeff Robinson pitched the ninth for his 14th save. In other season Enders sunday Gatulis Breyts 4 West division Champion san Francisco hit four homers including Bob Reoly i game Winner in the both inning 10 establish a club record for a season. Will Clark hit two homers to give the giants a 3-0 Lead and Chili Davis added his 24th in the sixth in Ning tying the score 4-4. Burnly s Lead off Homer off reliever Jim Acker 4-9, gave the Gianti 205 for the season one More than they had in 1962, when the club won its Only no Pennant in san Francisco. The braves tied it 3-3 in inc fourth on Gary Roe Nieke s rib single and a two run Homer by Paul Runge his third of the season. The braves took a 4o Lead in the sixth when Dale Murphy led off with his 44th Home run most by an Atlanta player since Hank Aaron hit 47 in 1971. Right hander Randy Bockus 1-0, worked a scoreless Lothi Orbis first major league Victory. Mew 11, cardinals 6 new York finished second in the East with a five run ninth inning against St. Louis highlighted by Lee Maui i s two run single and Tim Eufers two run double. Gary Carter and Keith Hernandez homered for the met and Darryl Strawberry added a run scoring sin Gle in the ninth 10 help the mils wind up their season Serin against the first place cardinals at 9-9. With the score lied 6-6 and runners at second and third with one out. Rick Horton relieved Bill Dawley see no on Page 26
