European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 28, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 the stars and stripes saturday May 28,1988 no Roundup Lefferts giants top Gooden 5-2 by he associated pre new York Craig Lefferts is Chc latest Pitcher to Benefit from the caching of san Francisco Gianu manager Roger Craig. Lef Cru using a Cut fasl Bat thai Craig encouraged him to develop re tired the new York mets in order in the final three innings thursday night at the giants won 5-2, giving Dwight Gooden his first loss of inc season. Roger Felt thai i needed a new Pilch left urls said after the giants beat the mels for the fifth Lime in six Gam this season. Our bread and duller is the out Side pan of the Nile. The league was starting to get Wise to my strength so Roger got me 10 work on the Cut fail Ball my Slider is Only 82 Miles per hour and that was t Good enough. 1 throw the Cut fastball 89, and now the waiters have to wonder what s next. They arc surprised Hal i have this new Pilch la Lens said. Kcf forts 30, had his Best season in 1984 with the san Diego padres Sav ing id games with a 2.13 Eam cd run average. I had another element of Surprise then a screwball Lefferts said. However that ran out so now i have another Surprise going for  Rick Reuschl 6-3, pitched six innings and allowed both runs and eight hits. La Fletis then came on for this third save the 15 h save by the san Francisco staff in inc club s 24 Victo Ries. Lefferts is Only one of five great stoppers in my bullpen Craig said the whole Bunch of them have been outstanding. Left urls never Tiro of gelling inc  Gooden who had won his first eight decisions this year struck out eight and walked one in 6vi innings but was knocked Oul in the seventh when san Francisco rallied Tor four runs. I walled in keep inc Streak going Gooden said. I did t think they hit me particularly hard. They got a couple of Bloop hit. Bui Ihen again i won a couple games earlier in the season that i should t have. So those things Bave a Way of evening themselves Oul. I just have to put in out at my mind and concentrate on Neil  the men started the seventh with a 2-1 Lead. Candy Maldonado Bob Brenly and Jose Uribe hit consecutive singles to tie the game and Harry Spil than hit a run scoring infield ground or to give the giant the Lead. Brei Builer followed with a run scor ing double and Hobby Thompson hit an rib single to Knock out Gooden. In other no games thursday Dodkin 10, Phillies 8 Philadelphia John Shelby hit a game tying double in inc ninth inning and Mic by Hatcher followed with a go ahead single As los Angeles completed a three game sweep of Philadelphia Kirk Gibson opened the ninth with a double off Steve Bedrosian 0-1. After Mike Marshall flied out Shelby doubled and Hatcher singled. One Oul later Mike Scioscia singled to make ii 10-8. Jay Howell 2-0, pitched two innings for the Victory after Jesse Orot co and Howell blew an 8-7 Lead in the eighth when von Hayes hit a two run double. Steve a homered twice and drove in four runs. Mike Schmidt broke an o-for-19 slump with two singles. Expos 6, padres i Montreal Tim Wallach had three hits and Nelson Santovenia hit his first major league Homer As Mon Treal completed a three game sweep of san Diego. Bryn Smith 3-3, allowed seven hits in six innings for the Victory his sixth in eight career decisions against san Diego. Be t Parrel pitched three hit less innings for his second save. Andy Hawkins 44, allowed Lorils in six innings As he lost for the third time in four decisions. Tigers Evans has a Homer Happy 41st birthday by the associated Pittl Detroit Darrell Evans we tired of being Detroit s Leader in the club House. Thursday night he finally resumed i leadership role on the Field As Well. Evans celebrated his 41st birthday with a Home run and Frank Tanana won his eighth Fame As the Detroit tigers Defeated the Milwaukee Brewers 4-3. I m just trying different things said Evans who is batting Only .198. I m trying to be patient. I Haven t been. I Haven t taken my walks. I wanted to be a part of this. They be been winning without me. After that one swing i certainly Felt  fans near the Tiger dugout Sang Happy birthday to Evans after the game to the tigers climbed to 12 games Over .500, their pcs record of the season. Well we fell victim la a couple of Tiger stadium Home runs Brewers manager Tom tre Belhom said noting that both Detroit homers landed in the Short right Field seals. We hit one but they hit two when we needed a hit we had the right Guys up Here but Detroit made some great. Defensive plays and we could t get it  Tanana 8-2. Allowed six hits walked four and struck Oul five in 7vi innings. He was relieved by Eric King alter giving up a two out two run Homer to Glenn Braggs in the eighth Tanana changes speeds Well Trebel Horn said. He to knows what to do. He gels a Guy looking for off Speed stuff and tic busts one in Over the place. He knows How to Pilch. You Don t hang around As Long As he docs without knowing your  King recalled from Toledo of the class aaa International league on tuesday got Rob Deer on a groundnut to end the eighth inning and held the Brewers scoreless in the ninth to pick up his first save Chris Bosio 6-9, look the loss. He gave up 12 hits and four runs in tight innings. Bosio battled hard tre Belhom said. Al Roundup Durell Emu. Erupts from .198 slump we swung the bats Good and made Dou ble plays behind him. The difference was the 10 Home runs they Hil that we could t  in the Only other Al game thursday run gun 8, Blue Jinyi 7 Arlington. Texas Ruben Sierra sri single capped a two run ninth inning . J Curtis Wilkeson led off he rangers ninth with a double off reliever Tom Henoc 0-1. Cecil Espy flied Oul to left but Scott Fletcher followed with an rib triple that tied the game. Sierra then singled to left driving in Fletcher. Andretti paces Safe final indy practice b Mike Harris a Mot a port writer Indianapolis Mario am Raciti whizzed around inc track at 215,105 Mph thursday and led the Way through a Safe and productive final two hours of practice for the Indianapolis 500. Thirty one of the 33 starters in sunday s race got onto the 2 6-mile track during the Only practice ses Sion of the week leading up to the j4 million race. I m very Happy with the car said Andrelli the 1969 indy Winner. It s feeling pretty much the Way we left it in practice last sunday ? the engine was entirely rebuilt and it s Back to where it was. Mission accomplished since qualifications ended late sunday afternoon the track has been washed Down by a heavy rain clean ing away some of the Slippery tire rubber from the Asphalt surface. Add to that the fact that thursday was sunny and Cool and you have almost perfect conditions for indy car racing the track is in Good condition Andretti noted. It s very  team males Danny Sullivan and Rick mean inc pole Winner were close behind Andrelli in the fast practice period. Sullivan hurried a fast Lap of 214.694. Cars who set one and four Lap qualifying records of 220.453 Mph and 219.193, respectively was right behind at 213.118. The car could t really have Felt much better sul Livan said. We re ready but so arc a lot of other people. Mostly i think everybody is just Happy that we re done with thai practice without any serious  nobody came close to the laps Over 220 and 221 that Andrelli and cars were throwing at each other in Pic tick two weeks ago. This in t the Lime for that any More mean said. When you qualify it s All Speed. After you qualify it s balance and race setup thai Are important. You have to be Able to run Well with a changing fuel Load and under All kinds of track conditions. You re trying to find just the right balance Speed becomes secondary in the past two years the so called Carbur Clion testing sessions on the thursday prior to the race have been punctuated with crashes. In 1986, an Accident involving Dennis Firestone wound up letting first alternate Dick Simon into the race. Last year. . Foyl and brazilian Emerson filth Paldi gave their Crews lots of work to do before race Day by crashing during the session. Thursday there were seven caution flags for a lout of 45 minutes but the cautions were for debris four times one track inspection a Low in and an engine failure in the car driven by Randy Lewis. This was much belter Fittipaldi said with a smile after a Safe id Lap lest with a fast Lap of 210.270 Mph. The car feels very Well balanced with a full fuel Load Ond the engine feels also very Good. I m looking for Ward to the  two of sunday s starters Scott Braylon and Rookie Dominic Dobson did not take pan in the final prac Tice. Butch Dennison Brayton s Crew chief said the car had been rebuilt prior to sunday and we used thai