European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 15, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday october 15, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 19 commentary giants cards really Aren t friends sometimes when St. Louis Busch stadiums very quid one seems to hears Fain murmuring from deep inside the retractable Tarpaulin machine below the Green artificial turf near first base Vince the machine seems to gurgle like the Crocodile seeking the rest or Captain Hook in Peter pan. Vince come a Little closer to me.  perhaps this is All imagination but it May be thai the Tarpaulin machine a not yet satiated after trying to ingest Vince Coltman on that fateful sunday Dur ing the 1985 league championships. For whatever the reason since Coltman and the Tarpaulin machine had their close encounter of i Emosi painful kind Coltman had not stolen another base during postseason play. It took awhile to sink in but it finally became obvious even to this most thick headed observer that these cardinals and these giants truly do not like each other. The giants were ahead partially because Jeffrey Leonard s injuries bad healed in time Tor him 10 slug Home runs in the first four games and partially be cause Jack Clark s ankle had held him to one futile Pinch hitting appearance. But the giants could barely conceal their Joyin keeping Coltman from stealing a base in the tint six games. As Joel Youmg blood put it under his own ghost written byline in the the san Francisco exam Iner monday. Vince Coleman is not liked by this  those arc provocative words from one athlete to Mother right in the Middle of a championship series but Youngblood meant it with chapter and verse to follow. The giants believe that the Man who has stolen a unprecedented 110, 107 and 109 bases in his first three season has tried to insult them and injure them with his running and sliding. Coleman was thrown out the first time he reached base in the first game and he had not found a Way to steal a base in six games while getting six hits in 22 limes at Bat. In fact Coteman had not stolen a base in postseason play since he disrupted Bop Welch of the Dodg cart to set up the cardinals third game Victory in 1985. The next Day Coltman was looking the other Way As the Tarpaulin was being retracted after mom ing Rains. His leg was trapped and a Hope was chipped in i knee keeping him from playing any More that october. Coleman has obviously recovered running ram Pant through the National league last year and ibis. It was one of his jaunts in a 10-2 Cardinal Romp that produced the bad blood Between these two teams last  second and third with an eight run Lead was taken As a hostile gesture by the giants. When pitch from Mike Krukow came close to Coltman the two men charged each other. Even the managers Roger Craig and Whiley her zog found cause to Jostle each other something that almost never happens in baseball s anarchic and usually harmless Bench Clearing scuffles. The two managers have tried to downplay the his tory of their belly bumping episode but it docs not go  still recalls cracking couple of ribs in the Brawl and he admitted thai he helped fuel himself for Bis fourth same Victory by recalling that he never did like the cardinals even when he was a minor leaguer in the Chicago cubs organization. The Cardinal always had an arrogant personal ,1 he has been quoted As saying. The cardinals resented the Way Jeffrey Leonard rounded the bases As slowly As a fat Man bringing Home bagels and the newspaper on sunday morning. The giants did t Ike he Way Coleman tried to break up a double play on sunday by sliding toward second base by Way of Daly City Coleman slide out of the Baseline not Only pos Sibly jeopardizes uric s double play but could have put Jose out of the series wrote Youngblood who is Nim self out of the series because of a broken Wensl he suffered in september. These ghost written journals arc usually to benign that Youngblood s words boomed out like a foghorn on a misty san Francisco night. He was also willing to say about Coltman it just seems like the Only time he Hustles is when it s going to Benefit himself those arc fighting words or at least feuding words but the giants seemed to think they could neutralize Coleman one More time. They had been doing an excellent Job of it with the catchers. Bob Brunty and Bob Mclvin taking signals from Craig in the dugout. Craig has always been the most personable and Una testing Man from the Day he arrived from the Montreal farm team to help bring next year to the Brooklyn dodgers in 1955. He was also the bes Pitcher you Ever saw with a 15-46 record for the amazing mets in 1962-63, to Crai old since he keeps insisting that runners steal on pitch ers not catchers. After tuesday night s 1-0 Victory the cardinals had Trofen two bases and been thrown out three limes. Coleman was still looking at his first stolen base. The Tarpaulin was still looking for Coleman.  cards St. Louis had 1 oth Man in stands from Page 17 then lined & drive to deep left Center but Mckee raced into the Alley and Back handed the Ball on the run. San Francisco threatened again in the fifth when Melvin and Uribe opened with singles. Dravecky then Laid Down an 0-2 bunt with Nice backspin but Pendle ton fielded it on the run and whirled to throw to shortstop Ozzie Smith covering third base. The slow footed Melvin a Catcher who did not steal a base this season was called out in a dose play and Craig went onto the Field to argue with Umpire Dave pal tone Hobby Thompson and Kevin Mitchell then hied out the cardinals threatened in the first when Tom heir singled with two outs and took third on Jim Lindeman s single but Dravecky truck out pen Teton. Dravecky lied an no playoff record by extending his scoreless innings string to 16, he also lied a playoff record with four straight strikeouts in the fourth and fifth innings. The cardinals got going Early against Dravecky and Pena j triple gave St. Louil More hits against Dravecky than it hid off hint in nine Kinmg in game 2. Herr 2-for-j9 in die fim five games singled again in the third. After that Dravecky and Robinson held St. Louis to just one More hit a single by unde Man in the sixth. Through the tint five Garnet St. Louis bitten were a combined 1z-for-7 1169 against san Francisco left hinders Dravecky Alice hindu Nakor Joe Price and Craig seffens. Danny Cox the loser in game 4 for St. Louts we to oppose Hamn Uker. It we the fint Lime the no playoff has gone to came 7 since the bust of even format started in 1981.  St. Louis