European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 27, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday August 27, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 21 sports Rookie hurler fires reds past cards by the associated press Cincinnati the Cincinnati reds got an unexpected boost from a Forknall throwing Rookie. Right hander Keith Brown allowed four hits Over seven innings of his major league debut thursday night to Lead the reds to a 4-1 Victory Over the St. Louis cardinals. Brown 24, allowed a pair of first inning singles and then held St. Louis witless until the sixth when Willie Mcgee hit a Solo Homer with two out. It was Only the second Ball hit out of the infield by the cardinals. Brown struck out three and walked two As he completed the jump from class a to the majors in one season. He made just 12 starts for the reds class aaa Nashville farm club before his Call to the majors. That made him an unknown commodity even among the reds. I did t know what to expect from him reds manager Pete Rose said. I d never seen him throw the Ball until the first pitch when he was warming  Rose and the cardinals came away impressed. I can see Why the Guy s pitched so Well in his career Rose said. Brown mixed an 85 Mph fastball with a Slider and his Forknall to keep the cardinals guessing. He got his off Speed pitches Over for strikes cardinals outfielder Vince Coleman said. That s what made him  that s the Way i pitch Brown said. I get ground balls. I Don t go for  Brown was 6-3 for Nashville this year with a 1.90 Era earning the Call to the big leagues. Rose plans to keep him in Reserve As a fifth starter in Case Jose Rijo has More Elbow troubles. That s Fine with Brown. I m glad it s Over he said of his debut. I can just relax now and go out  John Franco allowed two hits Over the last two innings to get his National league leading 27th save. The Victory was the reds eighth in their last 12 games pushing them four games Over .500 for the first time this season. Cardinals starter Greg Mathews 2 4, allowed just three hits in 4 a innings but he walked six to help the National league reds score four runs. Warming up i Felt very Strong. My  Felt Good said Mathews Trou bled this year by a sore shoulder. But i was inconsistent i was out of my  Larkin opened the reds first with a triple and scored on Dave col Lins ground out. Cincinnati scored two More runs with just one hit in the fourth when Eric Davis walked stole his 30th base and scored on Nick Esasky s single. A balk and Dave Concepcion s Fly out sent Esasky to third and Ron Oester s sacrifice Fly brought him Home. The reds loaded the bases in the fifth on a pair of walks by Mathews and one by reliever John costello. Concepcion s infield single scored a two out run. Mathews has lost both of his starts since returning from the disabled list this month. In the Only other game thursday cubs 6, braves 1 Atlanta Calvin Schiraldi pitched an eight hitter and struck out a career High 12 batters As Chicago beat Atlanta. Schiraldi 8-8, suffered a leg injury in new York on aug. 4 and had been on the disabled list until aug. 20. It was his second Complete game and he has 109 strikeouts in 127% innings. The cubs took a 1-0 Lead in the third on Ryne Sandberg s 13th Homer on a pitch from starter German Jime Nez 1-5.chicago made it 2-0 in the fourth when Vance Law hit a one out single went to second on first baseman Ger Ald Perry s error and scored on Sha won Dunston s single. After singles by Sandberg Mark Grace and Andre Dawson loaded the bases with one out in the fifth Rafael Palmeiro walked to Force in a run. Jody Davis then singled Home two More runs for a 5-0 Lead. The braves got a run in the Bottom of the fifth on Dale Murphy s rib single after singles by Pinch hitter Jerry Royster and Ken Oberkfell. Chicago added a run in the seventh on Palmeiro s rib single. The loss dropped the braves to 43 84, worst in the major leagues. Higuera stops Yankees 4-1 with 3-hitter Milwaukee a Teddy Higuera settled Down after a shaky Start and retired the final 19 new York Yankee batters thursday to Post a three hitter and a 4-1 Victory. The defeat dropped the Yankees 4 /2 games behind the Detroit tigers and 2 a games behind the Boston red sox in the american league East race. No other american league games were scheduled thursday. I like to pitch against the Good teams. I pitch hard against the Yankees said Higuera who lowered his earned run average to 2.41, second Best in the Ameri can league in recording his fourth consecutive Victory. The fourth straight win is Nice. It s Beautiful for me and the team he said. The Brewers did something they Haven t done often when Higuera has pitched this season they scored some Early runs. Higuera is 11-8, and in his eight losses the Brewers have scored a total of 11 runs. Rob Deer who missed two games this week with a sore Shouder hit a two run Homer off Rich Dotson 9-7, to Cap a three run first after the Yankees had taken a 1-0 Lead. Deer then doubled in his third run of the game to make it 4-1 in the third. When we got Teddy the Lead he did t look Good. He was missing Man Ager Tom Trebelhorn said. Higuera did not allow a hit after Luis Aguayo s second inning single. Higuera who struck out nine and walked one improved his career record to 9-2 against the Yankees including 6-0 at county stadium. That was Vintage Higuera Yankees manager Lou Piniella said. He mixed his pitches Well and got better As the game went on. I think we can Chalk this game up to facing a Pitcher that was on his  the game was a makeup of an aug. 4 rainout. Higuera was t real Sharp in the first inning and with the score Only 3-1, we were still very much in the game said Dotson who gave up eight hits. We probably faced the Best Pitcher in the Amer ican league file Teddy Higuera. 9-2 against Yankees american  Don Mattingly singled for the Yankees in the first moved up on a balk and scored on a single by Jack Clark who broke his o-for-20 slump. Jim Gantner and Robin Yount singled in the first and after a a Force out Gant Ner scored from third on a double steal As Greg Brock moved from first to Sec Ond. It was the second straight game the Brewers had scored in the first inning on a double steal. Deer then followed with his 17th Homer to make it 3-1. Taylor leads no. 2 Nebraska against aggie by Herschel Nissenson a football writer East Rutherford . In his 26 years at Nebraska first As an assistant and the last 15 As head coach Tom Osborne has seen such outstanding Quarter backs As Jerry Tagge David Humm Vince Ferragamo Turner Gill and Steve Tay Lor. Tagge Ferragamo and Humm were great pure throwers Osborne says. Tay k r probably is the closest thing to the mul to talented Gill who could Hurt teams run Ning with the football or throwing it. Or is Gill the closest thing to Taylor probably in terms of All around athletic ability Taylor is the most gifted Osborne said thursday. He has great physical skill Sand he s run an electronically timed 4.5 second 40, which translates to under 4.4.he has a very Strong  a lot of agility Kickoff classic on an television 2 . Sunday. Radio 2 06 . Sunday. And he s a great  Taylor a 6-foot, 205-Pound senior has been listed among the preseason favourites for the Heisman trophy. And he will be the first of the front runners to make his 1988 debut when the second ranked Cor Husk ers meet no. 10 Texas am on saturday night in the sixth annual Kickoff classic. Taylor s other Early season performances have been memorable. In the 1986 opener against Florida state his first career Start Taylor completed 10 of 16 passes for 130 Yards and two touchdowns and rushed 12 times for 139 Yards and two More scores. A year ago he rushed for 157 Yards against Utah state a single game record for a Nebraska quarterback. One week later he tied a big eight conference re Cord by throwing five touchdown passes against Urcla. Those were pretty Good accomplishments he said. But As Long As i play consistently and Don t make too Many errors i think i la play pretty Well. It s Good to Start off on the right track and you want to do the things you have to do in order to win. You want to stay team oriented. You Don t want to go out there and try to win the Heisman every game. You just want to go out there and do the Best you can. The reason i m going for the heis Man now is because of the things i be been doing in the past 1,748 Yards and19 touchdowns passing 1,299 Yards and 19 touchdowns Rushing. Right now there s probably 50-100 players legitimately qualified to be a heis Man candidate. It s an Honor to be one. I really Don t want to let it affect  just want to go out and play football and just let the voters do what they have to do. I just Hope Nebraska keeps winning. I be still got what 12-13 games to  Taylor will have to play the first one without starting Center Jake Young who suffered a knee injury in practice this week. He does t foresee any problems on the Center quarterback Exchange. " senior Jeff Anderson s the backup and i work out with him every Day Taylor said. They make an equal num Ber of snaps so i m very familiar with Jeff. He s a solid player he s Good. We have a Guy named Roger Fitzke behind him who s solid too. At Nebraska if someone gets Hurt we have the depth to fill in with a solid player so i Don t think it should affect us in any