European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 7, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday july 1988 the stars and stripes Page 17 irked tribe sweeps a s in twin Bill by the associated press Cleveland instead of getting depressed the Cleveland indians got angry. What happened yesterday monday got a few peo ple fired up and we wanted to go out and beat them Scott Bailes said tuesday night after he pitched a five hitter for the second shutout of his career to give the indians a 3-0 Victory Over the Oakland athletics in the first game of a double header. Rick Rodriguez followed with 6 2/� Strong innings As the indians also won the Nightcap 4-2. The indians were openly upset at Oakland Pitcher Dennis eckersely who shouted at Cleveland s Ron Al round Washington after striking him out to end the athletics 16-inning Victory on monday. Both benches cleared briefly As Washington ran toward Eckersley but no punches were thrown. The Way Eckersley showed us up got a lot of us fired up Bailes said. These Guys did t care that they had played 16 innings. Everybody just wanted to go. It was a Good Day to go out there and  Rodriguez had a More personal motivation having spent seven years in the Oakland organization before being signed by Cleveland in january. Oakland s been my team my whole life so it feels Good he said. I wanted to show the Guys in Cleve land i could pitch and i did t want to get too pumped up against my old  Cory Snyder hit a two run Homer in the first game and added three hits and two Bis in the Nightcap As Cleveland recorded its fourth straight double header sweep including three last year. The last time the Indi ans swept four in a Row was 1959. Rodriguez held the athletics to one run and six hits in 6% innings. Doug Jones pitched the final two innings for his 20th save and his 16th in his last 16 opportunities extending his own major league record. Cleveland which ended a string of eight straight losses to Oakland including five this season had lost eight of nine games Overall before the double header. Oakland meanwhile completed its 50th inning in three Days having won 16-inning games in Toronto on sunday and Cleveland on monday. The Nightcap became an unlikely pitching Duel be tween Rodriguez making his fourth appearance since he was called up from Colorado Springs on june 18, and Oakland s Rich Bordi brought up from Tacoma earlier tuesday. Sports Yankees Mike Pagliarulo is Safe at second As rangers shortstop Scott Fletcher leaps for a wild throw. A photo Bordi 0-1, held the indians scoreless on three hits through five innings and Rodriguez 1-1, held Oak land without a run on four hits through five innings. The athletics took a 1-0 Lead in the sixth when Stan Javier walked stole second and scored on Lansford s single. But Cleveland aided by a Catcher s interference Call chased Bordi with three runs in the Bottom of the sixth. Joe Carter had a run scoring single for his 61st rib that tied it 1-1 and Mel Hall s single one out later put Cleveland on top. Snyder capped the rally with his rib single. Snyder singled another run Home in the eighth after Ron Kittle doubled. Oakland scored a run off Jones in the ninth on a triple by Javier and a single by Jose Canseco. In the opener Bailes 7-7, walked one and struck out three in his fifth Complete game of the year and his first Victory in five starts since june 7. The left hander retired 16 straight batters during one stretch before Javier hit a Lead off single in the eighth. The indians took a 1-0 Lead against Dave Stewart 11-7, in the fifth when Franco singled and scored on Carter s two out triple. Hall led off the sixth with a bunt single and Snyder hit Stewart s first pitch for his 18th Home run. Stewart is 3-7 since May 8 after an 8-0 Start. He allowed eight hits in pitching a Complete game. In other Al games Yankees 5, rangers 3 Arlington Texas new York scored All its runs in the first inning including two on consecutive walks with the bases loaded As new York downed Texas. Reliever Tim Stoddard retired Scott Fletcher the Only Batter he faced on a Fly Ball with the bases loaded to end the game. Tommy John yielded two runs and six hits in six innings but it took three relievers to protect the 284th Victory of his career As the 45-year-old left hander tied Ferguson Jenkins for 22nd place on the All time Victory  Victory pulled the Yankees within 1 /2 games of first place Detroit in the Al East. See Al on Page 22 of Hershiser hurls hot dodgers past cards  i i a jFi4 Nix via -1  a it i. A by the associated press los Angeles Orel Hershiser won his sixth consecutive Start and John Shelby and Mike Marshall drove in two runs apiece tuesday night As the Streak ing los Angeles dodgers beat the St. Louis cardinals 6-3. The Victory was the 13th in the last 17 games for the dodgers while the loss was the eighth in the last 11 games for the cardinals. Hershiser 13-3, allowed seven hits and All three St. Louis runs in seven innings. Tim Belcher blanked the cardinals for the final two innings for his fourth save. The dodgers never trailed scoring three runs in the first inning after St. Louis starter Danny Cox 2-4, retired the first two  Gibson started the rally by drawing a walk before Marshall was hit by a  then doubled to right Field for a 2-0 Lead and Mike Scioscia followed with double to right Center scoring Shelby. Tom Brunansky and Terry Pendleto Nhit consecutive homers with two outs in the fourth to make it 3-2. No Roundup it was the 12th Homer for Brunansky since he was traded to St. Louis by Minnesota on april 22. Pendleton s Homer was the first since june 17 by a Cardinal other than Brunansky. The dodgers made it 5-2 in the fifth on a two out single by Gibson and a Homer by Marshall his 10th of the year. In other no games giants 9, cubs 0 san Francisco Terry Mulhol land pitched a six hitter in his first major league Start since 1986 As the giants beat error prone Chicago. Mulholland 1-0, recalled from the giants aaa team in Phoenix when Mike Krukow was placed on the disabled Lis sunday also scored two runs As the giants took a 4-0 first inning Lead off cubs starter Calvin Schiraldi 4-7. Mulholland walked one and struck out two in tossing his first career Complete game. Will Clark drove in two runs with a first inning double As the giants scored three times before Schiraldi could get an out. Expos 4, astros 3 Houston Luis Rivera tripled Home the winning run in the 11th inning As Montreal triumphed Over Houston. Tom Foley started the Lith with a double off Dave Smith 3-5. After a Sac Rifice Rivera hit a line drive Down the right Field line just out of the reach of right fielder Kevin Bass. After Wallace Johnson flied out left fielder Billy Hatcher threw out Rivera at Home but the one run was enough to make a Winner of Jeff Parrett 8-2, who pitched 1 a innings. Neal Heaton pitched the Lith for his first save getting the last two outs on a double play grounder by Smith who Bat Ted because there were no available  astros loss was their seventh in eight games and they dropped below.500 for the first time this season. Mon Treal won for the fifth time in six game Sand improved its extra inning record to 11-4. Braves 10, Phillies 5 Atlanta Gerald Perry doubled in the tie breaking run starting a five run sixth inning that carried Atlanta to a Victory Over Philadelphia despite 17 hits by the Phillies. With the score 4-4, Ron Gant opened the sixth with a double off reliever Bruce Ruffin 5-7, and scored when Perry Dou bled his third hit in the game. After Dale Murphy was walked intentionally Ken Griffey singled to Load the bases. Andres Thomas followed with a run scoring single and Murphy also scored on the play when Center fielder Bob Dernier overran the Ball for an error. The other two runs in the inning crossed on Dion James infield grounder and a double by Bruce Benedict. The Phillies tied it 4-4 in the sixth on a two run single by Steve Jeltz off win Ning Pitcher Jose Alvarez 3-2. Reds 3, mets 1 new York Tom Browning pitched a three hitter through eight in see no on Page 22