European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 10, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday july 10,1988 the stars and stripes Page 21 sports a s end Osing Streak by the associated press Detroit Mark Mcgwire drove in two runs with a grounder and his 16th Home run and Dennis Eckersley notched his 26th save As the Oakland a s beat the Detroit tigers 3-2 and snapped a four game losing Streak. Winner storm Davis allowed two runs and six hits in 6% innings. Loser Eric King allowed three runs and five hits in Al Roundup 5% innings. King was starting in place of Jack Morris who has complained of a tired Arm. Jose Canseco opened the Oakland fourth with a double was sacrificed to third and scored on Mcgwire s ground or. In the fifth Mike Gallego Drew a Lead off walk and scored on an error an infield out and Carney Lansford s Sacri fice Fly. With one out in the sixth Mcgwire homered for a 3-0 Lead. Davis blanked the tigers until the seventh when they scored on Matt nukes rib single and Tom Brookens sacrifice Fly. Eckersley pitched the last two innings allowing one hit. The Victory increased Oakland s Lead Over Minnesota in the american league West to 4 /2 games. Detroit s Lead Over new York in the Al East remained a three games. In other Al games Friday royals 4, Yankees 0 new York ail Star Pitcher Mark Gubicza handed new York its first shutout of the season with a four hitter and to Jack son hit a three run Homer in the fifth inning leading Kansas City Over the Yankees. Brewers 5, twins 3 Minneapolis Milwaukee s Bill Wegman held Minnesota to three hits in 6 a innings two of them Home runs for his first Road Victory of the season. Wegman gave up a 443-foot Solo Home run to Kent Hrbek in the second inning and a two run inside the Park Homer to Steve Lombardozzi in the sixth. Angels 10, indians 6 Cleveland Wally Joyner drove in four runs including a three run Dou ble in California s eight run fourth in Ning As the Angels beat Cleveland. White sox 6-7, red sox 5-10 Chicago Chicago won the opener As Harold Baines broke out of a 3-for 24 slump with a pair of run scoring 400 foot doubles and a game winning rib single in the seventh inning. Ellis Burks hit a pair of two run homers in the night Cap which Boston won with a seven run fifth inning. Blue jays 3, mariners 2 Toronto Mike Flanagan scattered seven hits in seven innings for his 150th major league Victory. Billy Swift pitched a Complete game but was the loser despite giving up Only four hits All in the third inning when the Blue jays scored their three runs and erased a 2-0deficit. Rangers 8, orioles 5 Baltimore Pete o Brien drove in three runs with a Homer and double Scott Fletcher went 4-for-4 and Pete in Caviglia and Ruben Sierra each drove in two runs. Eddie Murray hit a two run Homer and Terry Kennedy added a Solo shot for the orioles who had Only two other hits. A photo Houston s Rafael Ramirez scores from second on a single in the second inning despite the efforts of mets Catcher Gary Carter. Knepper Houston beat Gooden by the associated press Houston Houston s Bob keep per pitched a four hitter Friday night As the astros beat the new York mets and Dwight Gooden 4-2 in a Duel of All Star pitchers. The Victory snapped a five game los ing Streak for the astros who reached Gooden 11-5, for 10 hits and four runs in six innings. Gooden 10-2 lifetime against Houston had won nine straight regular season decisions against the astros since a 10-1 loss May 6, 1984. He struck out six and walked one in six innings. It s Nice to go a Complete game and beat the mets but the big thing was we needed a Victory Knepper said. They beat us in new York last week. We hit the Ball hard right at  following the astros loss wednesday night to Montreal which completed a three game sweep garbage cans were kicked in anger in the locker room at the Astrodome. This is the Way it should be hous ton third baseman buddy Bell said. We really needed this one and it s Good to beat the mets because they Are the Best team in the  Knepper 9-2, lost his last matchup against Gooden a week ago at Shea stadium. The left hander walked four and struck out six in the 7-2 loss. We got some big base hits and scored runs and when you do that you have to be satisfied astros manager Hal Lanier said. Gooden pitched Well enough to win but you be got to give the other Guy cred it this was Bis kind of game mets Man Ager Davey Johnson said. He had us biting at bad  no Roundup in other no games Friday Phillies 1, reds 0 Cincinnati Don Carman Al Lowed four hits in 7% innings and Milt Thompson homered leading off the eighth As Philadelphia beat Cincinnati to snap a five game losing Streak. Reds starter Jose Rijo 9-4, had Al Lowed just a third inning single by Greg Gross before Thompson lined a 1-2 pitch Over the right Field Fence for his second Homer. Thompson had fouled off five two strike pitches before breaking the scoreless tie. Steve Bedrosian relieved Carman 5-5, in the eighth and finished for his 15th save. Expos 7, braves 1 Atlanta Bryn Smith pitched a five hitter and Andres Galarraga singled in the first of four first inning runs As Montreal beat Atlanta for its fifth straight Victory. Smith continued his Mastery of the braves by improving his lifetime record against Atlanta to 12-2, including 3-0 this season. Smith 6-5, struck out six and walked none. Smith was two outs away from a shut out when Ozzie Virgil hit his eighth Homer. Mitch Webster and Mike Fitzgerald hit Solo Home runs As the expos snapped the braves three game winning Streak. Padres 4, cubs 2 san Diego Dennis Rasmussen won his fifth straight game since rejoin ing san Diego As the padres beat Chi Cago. Rasmussen 7-6, who came to the padres in a Trade with Cincinnati on june 8, scattered 10 hits in route to his fourth Complete game. The 6-foot-7 left hander walked one and struck out four. Rasmussen broke into the majors with san Diego in 1983 but was traded to the new York Yankees the next season. Marvell Wynne and Tony Gwynn had run scoring singles As the padres scored twice in the fifth inning off Rookie Jeff Pico 3-4. Giants 1, cardinals 0 san Francisco Mike Lacoss pitched a four hitter for san Francisco s third straight shutout As the giants beat St. Louis. It was his first shutout and first Complete game of the year. His last Complete game was also a shutout a 10-inning, 1 -0 Vic tory Over los Angeles on aug. 16,1987. Pirates 4, dodgers 3 los Angeles Andy Van Slyke drove in three runs As Pittsburgh held off los Angeles. The Victory moved the pirates within 5 /2 games of the first place new York mets in the National league East. Doug Drabek 6-5, ended a personal six game wingless Streak that included two defeats and four no decisions. The right hander allowed three runs and nine hits in 5% innings. The dodgers trailing 4-0, chased dra Bek in the sixth with four consecutive two out hits including singles by Kirk Gibson and Mike Marshall and a three run Homer by John Shelby his fifth. Mike Scioscia then doubled off dra Bek and went to third on reliever Barry Jones wild pitch. Jeff Hamilton walked but Dave Anderson grounded into a Force play to end the inning. Jim Gott pitched the ninth inning for his Lith save