European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 11, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 the stars and stripes monday july 11,1988 Al Roundup tigers nip athletics for Sparky s 800th by the associated press Detroit Lou Whitaker hit a three run Homer As the Detroit tigers beat the Oakland athletics 4-3 in a Battle of american league divisional leaders saturday. The Victory was Sparky Anderson s800th As skipper of the Al East Lead ing tigers making him the first Man Ager to reach that plateau in both leagues. Detroit s Frank Tanana 11-4, Al Lowed two runs on five hits and struck out six in six innings. Guillermo Hernandez earned his fourth save. Oakland s Bob Welch 10-5, gave up four runs on six hits including a second inning Homer by Darrell Evans and walked four in 6 / innings. Tom Brookens and Dave Berg Man walked in the Detroit third and scored on Whitaker s sixth Home run to give the tigers a 4-0 Lead. League Leader Jose Canseco led of the Oakland eighth with his 24th Home run. In other games saturday mariners 9, Blue jays 3 Toronto Greg Briley hit his first major league Home run and Steve Balboni added a three run shot in a five run fourth inning As Seattle routed Toronto. Scott Bankhead 4-3, cruised be Hind Seattle s 15-hit attack. He Al Lowed seven hits five of them Dou Bles and three runs Over six innings while striking out five and walking two. Sparked by Briley s Lead off Home that broke a 2-2 tie in the fourth off Todd Stottlemyre 3-8, Seattle sent 10men to the plate. Balboni s Homer came off Mark Eichhorn the third Toronto Pitcher of the inning. Angels 8, indians 5 Cleveland Tony armas had three hits including a three run Homer and Chili Davis snapped a eighth inning tie with a run scoring single As California beat Cleveland forts fourth straight Victory. With the score tied 4-4, Johnny Ray led off the Angels eighth with single off reliever Doug Jones 1-2. Ray went to third when first baseman Willie Upshaw displayed Wally Joyner s bouncer for an error. Davis then lined a single to right scoring Ray. Davis was caught in a rundown Between first and second on the play but Upshaw threw wildly into left Field for a throwing error allowing Joyner to score and Davis Togo to second. After Thad Bosley walked armas lined a run scoring single to make it 7-4. White sox 8-2, red sox 7-8 Chicago Ellis Burks tie breaking bases loaded single keyed a six run 10th inning As Boston beat Chicago 8-2 to gain a double header split. In the first game Dan Pasqua Greg Walker and Daryl Boston hit successive Home runs in the fourth inning and Walker tripled in the go ahead run in the fifth inning to Lead the White sox to an 8-7 Victory. Yankees 5, royals 3 new York Randy Velarde singled Home the go ahead run in his first at Bat since returning from the minors and reliever Charles Hudson pitched out of a Tough ninth inning Jam to preserve new York s Victory Over Kansas City. Yankee starter Rick Rhoden 4-6, yielded three runs and six hits in 6 innings before getting Relief help from Dave Righetti and Hudson. The royals put runners at secondhand third with none out in the ninth and later loaded the bases with on Down before Hudson closed the door for his second save. After purposely walking George Brett to Load the bases Hudson struck out Danny Tartabull and got Kevin Seitzer on an infield Popup for the final out. Orioles 4, rangers 1 Baltimore Jim Traber and Ken Gerhart hit Back to Back homers off Charile Hough and Jay Tibbs scattered eight hits Over six innings to Lead Baltimore past Texas. The orioles were outhit 10-6 i their seventh win in 12 games. In the first three games of this four game series the orioles needed Only 17 hits to score 15 runs. The homers were the first Given up by Hough on the Road this season. The Veteran right hander had gone71 % innings on the Road without Al lowing a Home run. Brewers 5, twins 4 Minneapolis Pinch hitter Jim Gantner s two out two run single capped a three run ninth inning of Minnesota Relief Ace Jeff Reardon lifting Milwaukee past the twins. Giants clobber cardinals 21-2 by the associated press san Francisco Chris Speier hit for the Cycle in the first five hit game of his 18-year career and the san Francisco giants hit five Home runs in route to a21-2 rout of the stumbling St. Louis cardinals saturday. Speier filling in for regular second baseman Robby Thompson hit two Dou Bles a triple a Homer and a single to Pace a season High 20-hit attack. The giants 21 runs set a san Francis co record surpassing the previous High of 19. Speier Kevin Mitchell Bob Melvin will Clark and Earnest riles each Hom ered. Riles hit his in the seventh and it was the 10,000th Homer in the history of the giants franchise. The new York Yankees reached that Milestone earlier this season. Right hander Kelly Downs 8-7,pitched the first seven innings yielding seven hits and two runs. By scoring twice in the fourth inning the cardinals snapped a string of 30 /3 shutout innings by the giants. John Tudor who entered the game As the National league s Era Leader lasted Only two innings after allowing five runs in the second inning. He fell to 4-4. It was the cardinals fifth straight los Sand their eighth defeat in nine games. Speier was the sixth giant to hit forthe Cycle. Last season Candy Maldona do also did it against St. Louis on May 4.other giants to hit for the Cycle Are Don Mueller Jim Ray Hart Dave Kingman and Jeffrey Leonard. In other no games saturday pirates 8, dodgers 2 los Angeles Mike Lavalliere an Barry Bonds hit three run homers As Pitts Burgh beat los Angeles and tightened up the race in the National league East. The Victory moved the second place pirates within 4 /2 games of the front running new York mets. Astros 6, mets 3 Houston Nolan Ryan joined Yyoung As the Only other Pitcher in major league history to win 100 games for two different teams in hurling Houston Over new York. The Victory was Ryan s 100th As Nastro. He had won 138 for the California Angels earlier in his career. Ryan 6-7, struck out five to increase his season total to 130, tops in the National league. His career total is 4,677,most Ever in the major leagues. No Roundup file photo Chris Speier. 5 hits including Cycle padres 4, cubs 2 san Diego de Whitson won his fifth straight decision with Relief help As san Diego dealt Chicago its fourth straight , 8-5, allowed Only a single through six innings then gave up four consecutive hits in a two run rally during the seventh before yielding to Lance Mccullers. Since he had no decision in his previous three starts it was Whitson first win since june 17. After Mccullers pitched 2 /3 innings Mark Davis got the last out for his 16th save. Expos 9, braves 4 Atlanta Hubie Brooks drove in three runs and Andres Galarraga hit his20th Home run As Montreal extended its winning Streak to six games with a Victory Over  was also the ninth Vic tory in the last 10 games for the expos. Reds 6, Phillies 3 Cincinnati Eric Davis double Home the tie breaking run in the seventh inning and Nick Esasky followed with Atwo run Homer to lift Cincinnati Over Philadelphia. The reds overcame a 3-1 deficit wit two runs in the fifth off starter Bruce Ruffin and three in the seventh off Kent Tekulve 2-5. Mills Hayden take . Gymnastics crowns Houston a Phoebe Mills with crowd pleasing performances on the floor exercise and bal Ance beam pulled away to win the women s All around title in the United states gymnastics championships saturday night. Mills who won the american cup All around title earlier this year scored a 9.85 in the floor exercise and had a 9.8 in the balance beam. Dan Hayden held off rallying Kevin Davis with High scores in still rings and parallel bars to win the men s All around title earlier saturday. Hayden who lives in Amherst n.y., failed to make the 1984 olympic team. His 116.85 score leads 18 men into the olympic trials at Salt Lake City. The top 20 women Advance to the olympic trials. Mills with a commanding leading going into her final event posted a 9.85 in the floor exercise to finish with a 77.86 aggregate score. Kelly Garrison Steves 21, of the University of Oklahoma started the Day in third place but finished second after a 9.75 on the uneven bars and a 9.9 on the balance beam. Hope Spivey of Suffolk va., started the optional tied with Mills for first place but fell Back with a 9.4 on the uneven bars. Spivey finished third closing out with a 9.8 vault that left her two one hundredths Point be Hind Garrison Steves who had a 77.32. Defending Champion Kristie Phillips a teammate of Mills at Bela Karolyi s gym provided one of the most thrilling performances in her balance beam  her 9.8 score provoked Boos from the crowd. Chelle stack also of the Karolyi gym was fourth followed by Stacy Gunthorpe Freehold n.j., who was fifth. Scores at the championships account for 40 per Centof a gymnast s olympics qualifying total. The remain ing 60 per cent will come from the olympic trial themselves. The United states will Send six men and six women to compete in gymnastics at the summer games in Seoul. Hayden scored a 9.8 in still rings and 9.7 in the parallel bars an event in which he had scored a perfect 10 during thursday s compulsory is. Davis finished with 116.25, .60 behind Hayden. Charles116.00. Lakes of Newhall Calif was third with yes this does mean i m the Best in the ," Hay Den said. It was a Battle All the Way through and really worked for  Hayden a former Mcaa Champion at arizon state said he was pleased with his vault and floor exercise. Right now i feel ready to go to the olympics he said. I m a Complete gymnast  Hayden who finished ninth in the 1984 olympic trials was second in the men s All around at the 1986 olympic festival in Houston and was second in the1987 world team trials. Davis a member of the United states Gold medal team at the 1987 pan american games scored a 9.8 on horizontal bars in the second rotation to take the Lead from lakes who scored 9.65 in still rings. I definitely thought i could catch him Davis Saidof Hayden. That s the competitor in me. But i did t even watch Dan today. You go out and do your Job and Don t worry about the other Guy or you won t get your Job