European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 11, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 22 the stars and stripes thursday August 11,1988 a s Power past White sox 8-1 up Oakland s Dave Stewart by the associated press Oakland Calif. Dave Stewart pitched a five hitter for his sixth straight Complete game and Oakland backed him with three Home runs As the athletics beat the Chicago White sox 8-1 tuesday night for their ninth Victory in 11 games. Stewart 15-10, had pitched nine consecutive witless innings including the last six in a one hitter against Seattle before Dave Gallagher opened the fourth with a triple and scored on Harold Baines one out single. The Oakland right hander struck out nine and walked one winning his third consecutive Start. Stewart leads the majors with 13 Complete games. Glenn Hubbard s third Homer in As Many Days a three run shot in the fourth inning gave the a s a 5-1 Lead. Dave Henderson hit his 17th Homer tying his career High for a season in the first inning and Ron Hassey hit his fifth in the second. Brewers 3-1, red sox 2-5 Milwaukee Mike Boddicker and Bob Stanley combined on a seven hitter and Rich gedman homered As Boston beat Milwaukee to gain a split in the double header. In the first game Joey Meyer homered Al Roundup land t on Roger Clemens first pitch in the Bot. Wins 15th of the year Lom of the ninth to give the Brewers a 3 2 Victory Over the red sox. Boddicker 8-13, allowed five hits but was replaced by Stanley with one out in the sixth after singles by Greg Brock and Rob Deer and an rib single by Meyer. Stanley retired 11 out of the 13 batters he faced to earn his fourth save. Clemens 15-7, had beaten the brew ers seven straight times including three times this season before Meyer hit his seventh Homer an opposite Field shot to right. Clemens struck out six. Chuck Crim 5-5, relieved Juan Nieves in the ninth and got the final two outs. Blue jays 6, Yankees 3 new York Sal Butera s two run triple keyed a five run sixth inning and reliever Duane Ward pitched four shutout innings As Toronto downed new York. Jesse Barfield led off the sixth against John Candelaria 12-7, with a single and took second on a single by Cecil fielder. Candelaria walked 19 move the runners up and Butera hit his first major league triple one out later to give Toronto a 3-1 Lead. Rob Ducey beat out a squeeze bunt to score Butera and Chase Candelaria. Twins 4, indians 3 Minneapolis Gary Gaetti hit a two run Homer and Kent Hrbek broke a sixth inning tie with an rib single As Minnesota sent Cleveland s Greg swin Dell to his 10th loss in 12 decisions. Fred Toliver 4-1, allowed nine hits and struck out six in six innings. Jeff Reardon the third Minnesota Pitcher pitched the ninth for his 30th save. Cleveland s Willie Upshaw had tied the game in the top of the sixth with his 10th Homer a three run shot. Rangers 6, tigers 2 Arlington Texas Bobby Witt 4-7, pitched a three hitter for his sixth straight Complete game since being re called from the minors july 7 As Texas beat Detroit. Royals 5, orioles 4 Kansas City to. Pat Tabler s three run double in the ninth inning raised his lifetime batting average to .571 with the bases loaded and Kansas City beat Baltimore for the 10th straight time this season. Mariners 4, Angels 1 Anaheim Calif. Alvin Davis be came Seattle s All time Home run Leader with a two run shot in the fourth inning and Mike Moore won for the first time since june 24 As the mariners beat califor Nia. Davis hit his 14th Homer of the season and 106th lifetime. He had been tied with Ken Phelps who was traded last month to the new York Yankees. My from Page 17 Day night and so were Many members of the Media. The game was attended by 254 members of the press less than half the number at monday s game. The loudest cheers from the 36,399 fans came in the seventh inning when Andre Dawson s rib single capped a four run outburst that broke a 2-2 tie and when the game ended. Dawson who signed a free agent contract with the cubs last season because he often hit 100 Points higher in the Daylight fared Well. His run scoring Force out in the sixth against Sid Fernandez tied the score and he singled Home the third of four runs scored in the big seventh. Reliever Frank Dipino 2-3, got the Victory and Rich Gossage picked up his 12th save. Fernandez 6-10, was the loser. Cubs Rookie Mark Grace got the first official hit a single in the first inning. On monday night Philadelphia s Phil Bradley led off the game with a Home run but All numbers were wiped out when rain stopped play in the fourth with Chicago leading 3-1. Grace Dawson and Sandberg hit rib singles in the seventh after Pinch hitter Jody Davis two out double drove in the tie breaking run. Mets Center fielder Len Dykstra had Beer spilled on him As he just missed on Davis shot. Dave Magadan had an rib single in the mets ninth. Len Dykstra s two run Homer put new York ahead in the fifth and Howard Johnson hit a Solo Homer his 20th, in the eighth. Rafael Palmeiro extended his hitting Streak to 18 games with an rib triple in the cubs fifth. Astros 3, giants 2 Houston Glenn Davis drove Home two runs on a pair of singles including the game Winner in the eighth inning rallying red hot Houston to a Victory Over san Francisco. The astros have won six of their last seven. Terry Puhl who got three hits in the game singled stole second and went to third on the same play on Catcher Bob Brenly s throwing error in the eighth. Davis then got his 12th game winning hit of the season with a single to Center Field. Juan Agosto 8-0, was the Winner with Dave Smith working the ninth for his 21st save. Reds 6, dodgers 0 Cincinnati Danny Jackson pitched a four hit Ter for his career High 15th Victory and to Diaz hit a three run Homer As Cincinnati blanked los Angeles. Jackson 15-5, out pitched Don Sutton in dealing the National league West leaders their ninth loss in 12 games. Pirates 10, expos 8 Montreal Sid Bream drove in four runs and Bobby Bonilla hit a two run Homer As Pittsburgh beat Montreal. Brian Fisher 7-9, gave up seven hits in 6% innings to snap a three game losing Streak. Jim Gott re tired the last two batters for his 19th save. Cardinals 7, Phillies 3 Philadelphia Terry Pendleton singled twice knocking in three runs in a seven run eighth inning for St. Louis. The cardinals trailed 3-0 against Philadelphia starter Marvin Freeman when the Rookie was relieved after seven innings by Steve Bedrosian. Ozzie Smith walked twice in the inning and an error by second baseman Juan Samuel helped keep the rally going. Ricky Jordan and Phil Bradley homered for the Phillies. Padres 5, braves 1 Atlanta Eric show held Atlanta to four hits and Benito Santiago hit two Home runs to Lead san Diego past the braves. The Only run allowed by show 9-10, came on a Solo Homer by Ron Gant with one out in the eighth. Cuba posts 4-3 win Over . Olympians Indianapolis a Luis Casanova hit a two run Homer and cuban defenders ended two rallies with Brilliant defensive plays in a 4-3 Victory Over team Usa tuesday night. The Victory gave the cubans a 2-1 advantage in the exhibition series that was to continue wednesday night in Tidewater a. Cuban pitchers struck out 15 . Batters while giving up six hits. Starter Rogelio Garcia struck out six and gave up two hits before leaving in the fifth inning. Omar Ajete struck out four More in the next 2 a innings and closer Euclides Rojas the Winner retired five of the eight batters he faced on strikes. Cuban hitters gave . Starter Andy Benes trouble in each of the first three innings the worst coming in the second when Casanova s Homer Over the scoreboard in left Field followed Lourdes Gurries single. One out later Benes hit Ermigilio Urrutia with a pitch and gave up another single to left by Victor Mesa. The runners advanced to second and third on Catcher Doug Robbins passed Ball. Benes grabbed a line drive hit Back at him for the second out but Laz Aro Vargas hit a single to Center scoring Urrutia and apparently Mesa. But Mesa was called out for missing third base. Garcia held team Usa witless until the fourth when Dave Silvestri s ground single to left scored Ted Wood who had walked. With two runners in scoring position Center fielder Mesa ended the inning and extinguished what could have been a bigger . Rally with a Brilliant running catch to his left of Doug Rob bins line drive. Benes the loser fell to 3-1 in exhibition play for the . Team now 20-5 in its selection process for the olympic team that will travel to Seoul. Gretzky from Page 17 the modern Era if not All time. And stage 27, he should have several Good years ahead of him. Gretzky s contract which pays him reported $900,000 a year has four years remaining. He also is believed to ear More than twice that in endorsements each year. Gretzky married los Angeles base actress Janet Jones on july 16, inspiring reports that he was interested in moving to California. Wayne has Given so much to this Cit Yand to hockey in the past decade that i believe he has the right to set his own destiny oilers owner Peter Pocklington said. Gretzky said Jones did not ask him to seek a Trade. It s my own gut feeling he said. But some Oiler fans blamed Jones for the Trade. It would be interesting to know whose initiative it was said Joy Mckenna inter viewed in Edmonton. Ask him who wears the pants in the  news of the Trade was not Well received in this so called City of champions where angry Oiler fans blistered the airwaves of radio talk shows to com  jammed the 21 Telephone lines at the team offices some threatening to cancel season tickets. Nil president John Ziegler said the league has a longstanding policy of not commenting on trades however this is a unique  we wish All the players involved the Best and Hope that it continues the Suc Cess of Edmonton and improves the for tunes of los Angeles he said. Gretzky holds the nil record for most goals 92assists 163 and Points 215 in a season. He is also the All time assist Leader with 1,086 and is within 218 goals and 181 Points of becoming the record Holder in those categories. Gordie Howe the All time top Point producer took 26 seasons to amass 1,850 Points. Gretzky is on a Pace to surpass that total in his 10th season. Gretzky has been the subject of Trade rumours almost annually. Pocklington has often been reported willing to sell him to a . Team for millions of dollars. A year ago Gretzky said he was tired of hockey and even threatened not to participate in the 1987 Canada cup the Only tournament that pits Canada s Best players against the elite from the soviet Union. But he relented and played some of his Best hockey in leading Canada to a Victory Over the soviets in a dramatic three game final. During the regular season Gretzky suffered an Eye injury and a knee injury. He was forced to sit out 19 games and his production dropped to 40 goals and 109 assists for 149 Points his lowest totals since his first year in the league. He failed to win the scoring championship for the first time in eight years and the Hart trophy As league map for the first time in his nine years of nil duty