European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 4, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 the stars and stripes monday tuesday july 4/5,1988 giants nip bucs on wild pitch by the associated press san Francisco the biggest ran producer for the san Francisco giants saturday was Pittsburgh s Barry Jones. A wild pitch by Jones with the bases loaded enable san Francisco to score two runs in the Bottom of the eighth inning and defeat Pittsburgh 2-1. Pinch hitter Ernest riles led off the Bottom of thinning with a single Only the giants second hit and pirates starter Doug Drabek was replaced by Dave Rucker 0-1. After Brett Butler walked Jones relieved and Robby Thompson s sacrifice bunt moved the run ners up. Will Clark was walked intentionally to Load the bases. With the count 0-2 on Candy Maldonado Jones threw a wild pitch that Catcher Junior Ortiz could t find As riles and Butler scored. I knew before i threw it that it was going to be Down and away Jones said. The last thing i was going to do was hang it. I was going for a  everything went right said Butler who scored All the Way from second for the winning run. There were two strikes and i was looking for Candy to make con tact. I did t look at the third base coach Bill Fahey. I just looked at Ortiz and figured he did t know where the Ball  Pittsburgh s Darnell Coles hit his fifth Homer in the top of the eighth to break up a scoreless pitching Duel Between Drabek and san Francisco Winner Mike la Coss 6-6. . Stars trim Japan Tokyo a Bret Barberie of Southern Cal hit a three run Home run and reliever Jim Abbott of the univer sity of Michigan pitched no hit Ball Dur ing the last 4 a innings As an american collegiate All Star squad Defeated a Japa Nese National baseball team 6-4 sunday. The Victory was the . Team s Sec Ond against three defeats in the finale of the five game series. Japan won the fourth game in Mito on Friday 12-10 and clinched the championship. On sunday the americans took an Early Lead scoring four runs in the Bot Tom of the first inning before a crowd of 8,000 at Jingu stadium. Robin venture of Oklahoma state doubled Home the first run following a double by to Griffin of Georgia tech. Barberie then hit his three run Homer. The americans picked up a fifth ran on a Home run by Griffin in the fourth inning and their last on Griffin s double in the sixth. The japanese All stars scored two runs in the fourth inning and two More in the fifth on six hits off starter Ben Mcdon Ald of Louisiana state but Abbott relieved Mcdonald and held the japanese witless the rest of the Way. Abbott who Only uses his left hand for throwing and Fielding because he was born without a right hand was the win Ner and was chosen the outstanding Pitcher in the series. He was a first round Choice of the California Angels in the recent baseball draft and was selected eighth Overall. It was Japan s first Victory in three years and sixth Overall in the 17-year series. No Roundup Phillies 5, reds 3 Philadelphia David Palmer combined with three relievers on a four hitter and also doubled in two runs to Lead Philadelphia Over Cincinnati. Palmer 4-6, held Cincinnati witless until Jeff Treadway singled up the Middle to Lead off the sixth but then had to leave the game with stiffness in his right forearm. The right hander struck out three and walked two. Mets 7, astros 2 new York Dwight Gooden pitched a five hitter and Darryl Strawberry hit his 20th Homer and drove i three runs As the new York mets Defeated the Houston astros 7-2.Gooden, 11-4, who had a no hitter through five innings pitched his seventh Complete game this year. The23-year-old right hander has 49 Complete games for his career and is 10-1 against the astros. Winner of Only one of his previous four decisions Gooden lost his bid for a no hitter when he gave up infield singles to Pinch hitter Gerald Young and Rafael Ramirez in the sixth. Howard Johnson hit his 15th Homer and Moo de Wil son had a two ran single for the mets. Bob Knepper 8-2, who allowed five runs on six hits in five innings was the loser. Braves 5, expos 4 Montreal Ron Gant s Home ran Over the Cen Ter Field Fence with one out in the 15th inning gave at Lanta a Victory Over Montreal snapping the braves six game losing  s ninth Homer off Neal Heaton 2-6, made a Winner of Paul Assenmacher 3-4, who pitched three innings of witless Relief. Charlie Puleo pitched the Bottom of the 15th for his first save since 1982.the loss was Only the fourth in 14 extra inning games played by the expos this season. Padres 7, cardinals 5san Diego Garry Templeton hit a game tying two ran Homer and an rib single and Tony Gwyn singled Home the winning ran in the seventh inning As san Diego rebounded from a 5-0 deficit to defeat St.  Grant 2-6, was the Winner with two shutout innings. Mark Davis earned his 15th save by pitching the final two  s Homer in the Bottom of the seventh off John costello was his first Home ran since sept. 19, 1987 at Houston. Dodgers 8, cubs 1los Angeles Tim Leary ended a personal five game losing Streak against Chicago and John Shelby and Kirk Gibson each had three hits and two Bis As los Angeles rolled Over the  and Franklin Stubbs hit two ran singles in the fourth inning As los Angeles erupted for six run Sand padded its Lead to 8-0 m support of Leary 7-5. The dodgers have scored 17 runs for Leary in his Las two games the same number he received in his five previous outings. Toronto s Kelly Graber Breaks up a double play attempt by Oakland second baseman Glenn Hubbard. Gruber was called out. A photo Al from Page 21 Arn sports television baseball Seattle at Detroit 7 30 . Monday St. Louis at los Angeles,10 30 . Tuesday taped. Radio baseball Oakland at Cleveland 7 30 . Monday Milwaukee at Kansas City 2 30 . Wednesday. Milwaukee starter Chris Bosio in the sixth inning and followed a Lead off single by Kirby Puckett with a towering 435 foot Homer Over the right Field Wall of Chuck Crim in the seventh. Lea allowed eight hits and both Mil Waukee runs in 7% innings. Orioles 7, rangers 4 Arlington Texas Rick sch keyed Baltimore s biggest inning of the year a six ran fourth with his first Ca reer grand slam the sixth bases loaded Homer against Texas this season. Eddie Murray and Jim Traber singled and Ken Gerhart and Pete Stanicek Nad rib singles around a walk to Billy rip Ken that loaded the bases. Schu then hit Atwo out 3-2 pitch from Paul Kilgus for a 6-0 Lead. Rookie Oswaldo Peraza retired the first 13 Texas batters before Larry Par Rish singled with one out to Start a four ran Texas fifth which included rib hits by Mike Stanley Curtis Wilkerson an Cecil Espy. Baltimore scored its final ran in the ninth on another rib single by Gerhart. Indians 10, mariners 7 Cleveland Joe Carter Ron Kittle and Brook Jacoby drove in two runs apiece and Doug Jones extended his major league record string of saves to 15in a Row As Cleveland snapped a six game losing Streak. Winner John Parrel took a 9-3 Lead into the eighth inning but gave Way to Jones after Steve Balboni hit a three ran Homer with two out his fifth of the sea son. Royals 3, red sox 1 Kansas City to. To Jackson who had been on the disabled list since june 1 with a torn hamstring hit an rib double on his first at Bat and Charli Leibrandt scattered 11 hits in 7% innings. Frank White doubled off Dennis oilman Boyd in the second and fifth innings and scored Kansas City s first two runs on doubles by Jackson and Pat Tabler. Boyd allowed seven hits in 7 a innings and lost for the fourth time at Roy als stadium where he has never won a game. The Only ran off Leibrandt was a fifth inning inside the Park Homer by Wade Boggs his second Home ran of the sea son