European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 14, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday May 14,1988 the stars and stripes Paga 21 sports mavs bulls Windy he Ajin Dit a press Denver Rolando Bleiman re gaining Bis shooting Totch after several subpar play ult performances scored 31 Points Ond Roy Tarpley added 27 Ai inc Dallas in cricks Defeated the Denver nuggets 112-108 thursday night to Square their playoff series at one game apiece. Games 3 and 4 in the bust of seven Western conference semifinal will be played in Dallas saturday and sunday night in the Only other tame thursday the Chicago bulls Defeated the Detroit Pis tors 105-95 in the second game of their Eastern conference semifinal series. Dallas could not put Denver away until the end. Blackmail hitting Only 38 percent from the floor in five previous playoff tames scored 15 of his Points in the final period to thwart several Nugget comeback attempts. Tarpley the Mavericks valuable sixth Man added 12 rebounds to n is total. After a closely contested tint hair Dallas ran off 10 straight Point Midway through the third Quarter. Blackman and Derek Harper had tour apiece during the run which produced a 71-65 Lead with 4 i8 left in the Quarter Tarpley s Baseline jumper which just beat the 24-second shot clock padded the margin to 78-69 Laic in the Quarter the nuggets Drew with in one Point on Mike Evans three Point play barely a minute into the final Quarter but Black Man ignited an 11-2 Dallas flurry for a 91-Bi advantage. Evans 3-Point Basket Cut the deficit to two paints two minutes later but James Donaldson and Blacken an immediately countered with baskets and the nuggets could get no closer than four Points alter that. Lafayette lever who scored 10 Points in the final four minutes and Alexen Glish had 11 Points each for Denver and Aba playoffs Danny Schayes had 20. Neither team led by More than is Points in inc first half. Blair Rasmussen s Layup with 8 04 left in the pint Quarter gave Denver its big Gest Lead 14-8, but the Mavericks rallied for their first Lead on Brad Davis Short jumper in the Lane three minutes later. Two baskets by Evans in the final 44 seconds of the period produced a 33-28 Denver Lead. Both cams shot better than 50 percent in the Quarter. Denver s Lead alternated Between one and five Polnau Tor most of the second Quarter before sin straight Dallas Points gave inc Mavericks a 50-47 advantage site in the half. Tarpley had the first four Points of that run and Donaldson trapped it with a Hook shot. But English made a rebound Basket with 33 seconds to go and Sank two free throws moments later to give the nug gets a 51-30 halftime Lead bulls ids Piston 95 Pontiac Mich. Michael Jordan scored 36 Points and Sam Vincent had a career High 31 to Lead Chicago Over de Iroil. Vincent hit ii of 13 shots in the first half during which he scored All but two of his Points but was forced to leave the game with he fourth foul As Chicago led 67-53 with 6 0 left in the third Quarter. Jordan who had been averaging 43.5 Points in the playoffs picked up the Slack scoring 12 Points in the period As the bulls increased a 15-Point halftime Lead to 81 -62 entering the fourth period. The Victory lied the Best of seven so Ries at one game apiece. Games 3 and 4 will be played in Chicago on saturday and sunday. The bulls collapsed temporarily after moving ahead by 20 Points on a Horace Grant tree throw As Detroit s James Edwards later hit eight of i 16 Points in a 2 59 Span to pull the pistons within 84 74, but they could get no Clour than six Point after that. An Edwards Bosket with 3 53 to play pulled Detroit within 91-85, but Jordan scored six of Chicago s next 12 Points As the bulls moved ahead 103-91 with 1 30 left. Vincent bested his previous playoff High of 18 Points which he attained against the pistons twice last year when he was with the Boston celtics his pre Vious High during the regular season was 23 Points against Washington on april 5, Isiah Thomas led the pistons with 25 Points Bill Lamb car added 15, All in the first half. Laimbeer scored Lite pistons first 14 Points but Vincent hit for 11 Points and Scollick pippin four As the bulls took a 19-14 Lead with 2 20 left in inc first Quarter. Chicago which led 2j-20 after the first Quarter got sit consecutive Points from Vincent in a 51 second Span of the second Quarter and Jordan capped the 12-4 spurt with a fast break Dunk to push the hulls1 Lead to 43-30 with 5 37 to go before halftime. Jordan and Vincent who hit 11 of 13 shots in the half combined for 13 of Chi Cago s final 20 Points of the Quarter As the bulls held a 55-40 halftime Lead. The pistons who made Only 31 per cent of their shots in the first half got eight Points from Thomas in the first 2 06 of the third Quarter to pull within 57-50. But the bulls themselves 61-percent shooters in the first half countered with a 12-3 spurt including in Points by Jor Dan to pull ahead 69-53 with 5 17 left in inc third Quarter Rory Sparrow hit a free throw with five seconds left stole inc Ball and Sank a 3-Point Basket at the Buzzer to put the bulls ahead by 19 with one Quarter left to play. Pulp Tho Rolando buc nun. Has hot hand with 31 pirates hand hers i ser first loss Bonds Bonilla Pace bucs past . By the associated press Pittsburgh Barry Bonds hit iwo homers drove in three runs and scored three times and Bobby Bonilla added a three run shot thursday night powering inc Pittsburgh pirates past the los Angeles dodgers 7-4. All of the Pirvics runs came Oft Orel Hershiser 6-1, who allowed 12 hits in seven innings John Smiley 3-2, gave up seven hits in his first major league Complete game. The dodgers scored three runs on four hits in the fourth inning. With the score lied 3-3 in the fifth Bonds singled for his third consecutive hit and moved to third on Jose Lind s line drive single to right. Lind went 3 for-4 to extend his hitting Streak to nine games. Andy Van Slyck lifted a sacrifice Fly to score Bonds with the go ahead run As the pirates improved their Home record to 13-3, the Best in the majors. Bonilla followed singles by Lind and Van Slyck in the seventh with his toil Homer of the season lying Darryl Straw Berry of the new York mils for the National league Lead. Bonilla is lied with Glenn Davis of the Houston astros for the Lead in Bis with 29. No Roundup Bonds who has been fighting a slump that dropped his batting average nearly 100 Point in two weeks led off the pirates first with his seventh Homer of the season it was the i lilt Lime in his three year career and the third this season he has Ted off the tint by hovering. Rafael Belliard. Singled to Lead off the third and Bonds followed an out later with a two run shot to right Field his third Homer in four games. Bonds Hom ered five times in his first 55 Al bats then went 72 Homer less at bats before connecting monday night against san Francisco. The dodgers billets in the first three inning got to Smiley in the fourth for Mike Davis run scoring single and Rick Dempsey s two run double but Smiley settled Down to retire 10 of he next 11 hitters he faced. Sieve sax had an rib single in the ninth. The pirates swept the Brief two game Serin after being swept in three games last week in dodger stadium. In other games thursday Cardinal 13, giants 12 St. Louis Bob Homer s second two run single keyed a four run St Louis seventh inning lifting the cardinals to a come from by Rind 13-12 Victory Over san Francisco. St Louis which trailed to in the sixth inning had 18 hits but also torn milled five errors. The cardinals who led the National league in Fielding in 1987. Lead the majors in errors this sea Ion with 39 in 33 games. The three hour 49-Mlnulc game came on inc heels of wednesday night s 16-in Ning 5-4 giants Victory Over the Cardi nals. Thai game lasted 4 4g. Jeffrey Leonard s two run single capped a three run san Francisco rally thai gave the giants an 11-9 Lead in the seventh. But the cardinals regained the Lead in the Bottom of the inning. Vince Coltman beat out an infield hit with one out after Coltman stole Sec Ond and Ozzie Smith filed out tingles by Willie Mcgee and Tom Brunansky a walk to Terry Pond lion and a single by Homer gave the cardinals a 12-11 Lead. Luis Alicea then singled Home pc dec Ion. Scoti Terry i-1, picked up the win despite giving up three runs in i a innings. Todd Worrell came on in the ninth to pick up his league leading 10th save Craig Lef crts 1-2, look the loss. Pond Luton s two run Homer High lighted the cardinals six run sixth in Ning. The inning also featured a Pinch hit rib single by Curt Ford an rib groundnut by my acc and a two run sin Gle by Brt Mansky. Two errors by Mckee in Center Field and one by Coltman in left helped the giants score six limes in the fourth in Ning off starter John Tudor. The inning included a run scoring single by Joel Youngblood a sacrifice Fly Fay Chris Spicer and an rib double by will Clark. Harrier and rendition also committed St. Louis errors in he game. Clark hit his eighth Homer of the year in the third inning. Ctn 2, pud Eai 1 10 inning Chicago Rookie Damon Berry Hill doubled Home the winning run with two outs in the 10th inning to give Chi Cago a Victory Over san Diego. Berryhill s first run balled in this sea son and his second in the majors sent san Diego to its fifth straight defeat and 11th in the last 12 games. With one out in the 10th, Rookie Mark Grace singled off Mark Davis 1-2. After Andre Dawson fouled out Rafael Palm Eiro walked and Berry bilt followed with a double to left Center. Bill land Nim 1-0, was the Winner