European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 13, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 the stars and stripes tuesday september 13,198c reds Boot . Closer to Crown by the associated press los Angeles the Cincinnat reds May have thrown away anyone s chances of catching the los Angeles dodgers in the National league West. A pair of throwing errors with two our to the Bottom of the ninth inning enabled los Angeles to score the tying run and Jeff Hamilton followed with a Home run As the dodgers rallied past the visiting reds 5-3 sunday. The dodgers in danger of seeing their two closest challengers each gain ground instead maintained a five game Lead Over Houston and pushed Cincin Nati 7 i behind. This is the Type of games you be got to win if you want to go on to be world champs said Kirk Gibson who scored he lying run when he dashed Home from first base on the reds double error. Tom Browning checked the dodgers on four hits through eight innings and left with a 3-2 Lead. John Franco leading the league in saves took Over to Start the ninth. He had an 0.25 earned run average in his last 31 outings Over 35 i innings. Gibson who homered earlier singled with one out in the ninth for his third hit. With two outs John Shelby sent a hard grounder that third baseman Chrissabol stopped for an infield hit. But Sabo threw wildly on the play and Gib son kept running scoring when first baseman Dave Conception threw poorly to the plate. Hamilton then sent a full count pitch Over the left Icid Fence for his fifth Home run. Tim Crews 4-0, got the Victory and Franco fell 0 5-6. No Roundup met 3, expos 0 Montreal Bob Ojeda pitched a five hitter for new York s 22nd shutout this season As the mets blanked Mon Treal. The acts swept the three Gam series and held the expos scoreless for the last 22% innings. Ojeda 10-13. Did not walk a Batter and struck out eight in his fifth shutout. Kevin Mcreynolds drove in All three runs. He hit an rib single in the first and a two run Homer his 21st, in the eighth cardinals 3, cubs 2 St. Louis Jose Deleon teamed with two relievers on a three hitter and Ozzie Smith squeezed Home the tie breaking run in the seventh inning As St. Louis beat Chicago for its Venth straight Victory. Deleon 11-8, won his fifth consecutive decision. Astros 4, giants 1 san Francisco Jim Deshaies pitched a four hitter and Billy Hatcher Craig Biggio and buddy Bell each Hom ered As Houston won in san Francisco. Padres 8, braves 2 san Diego Dennis Rasmussen shut out Atlanta on one hit for seven innings and Marvel Wynne s grand slam capped a seven run outburst in the san Diego second. Phillies 7, pirates 4 Pittsburgh Juan Samuel hit a two run Homer and Ricky Jordan and John Russell each had two hits an drove in a run As Philadelphia downed Pittsburgh. Al from Page 21 Alfonso Jiminez s sacrifice. Lee Smith replaced Stanley and u pshaw grounded a single through the Hole to right scoring Zuvella. Candiotti struck out one and walked one in improving his record to 12-8. Orioles 4, Blue jays 2 Baltimore Dave Schmidt sur Vived a shaky first inning to win for the fifth time in sin decisions As a starter As Baltimore Defeated Toronto. While sox 3, twins 2 Chicago Shawn Hillegas allowed four hits in eight innings Ana Dave Gallagher hit a tic breaking double with two outs in the eighth As Chicago nipped Minnesota. Ozzio Guillen tripled with one out in the eighth off Bert Blyleven 9-15, who has lost four straight. Donnie Hill struck out but Gallagher lined Blyleven s first pitch Down the right Field line to help Hillegas 1-1, earn his first american league Victory since being acquired from los Angeles on sept. 2. Rangers 8, Angels 3 Arlington Texas Charlie Hough and de Vande Berg combined on a seven hitter and Ruben Sierra drove in four runs As Texas downed California. Hough 13-15, allowed four hits before leaving with two out in the Smith when he aggravated a muscle pull in his left hip. Vanda Berg the winning Pitcher sat urday earned his second save. Athletics 8, royals 7 Kansas City to. Luis Poloni awas awarded third on an interference Call in the 11th inning and scored on Dave Henderson s sacrifice Fly As Oakland ral lied to beat Kansas City. Dennis Eckersley 4-2, the fourth Oak land Pitcher worked 2vi innings an was the Winner despite giving up Danny Tartabull s game tying rib double in the ninth. Brewers 5, mariners 3 Milwaukee Don August 10-6, allowed seven hits in eight plus innings and Robin Yount s two run double keyed a four run fifth As Milwaukee Defeated Seattle. Kramer Sparks vikes Over pats Minneapolis a Tommy Kramer justified Minnesota coach Jerry bums1 decision to Start him a quarterback sunday passing for 209 Yards and a touchdown and leading the Vikings to a 36-6 Victory Over the new England patriots. Kramer a pro bowl starter in 1986 who missed much of 1987 with a neck injury was benched Tor the first time this decade in last week s season opener a 13-10 loss at Buffalo. But after Wade Wilson and the of sense performed poorly against the Bills bums turned to Kramer who when healthy had been the Vikings quarterback since fran Tarkenton re tired 10 years ago. Kramer completed 12 of 27 passes including his first five of the came. His first two passes a 24-yarder to Anthony Carter on the opening play and a 38-yarder to Hassan Jones setup Damn Nelson s 8-Yard touchdown run for a 7-0 Minnesota Lead Kramer left with sin minutes remaining in the third Quarter with a leg cramp meaning he has t played a full football game since dec. 7, 1986 a Span of 19 games Wilson went the rest of the Way. New England also 1-1, got a poor performance from its Long Lime Quarter Back Steve Gro Sui who was 9-of-26for 106 Yards and three interceptions. The patriots defense was also shaky. After allowing the new Yor jets Only 179 Yards on 60 plays a 2,98-Yard average in last week s28-3 Victory they surrendered 415 Yards on 77 plays sunday. That s an average of 5.39 Yards. Armload of completions belies shortage of lbs by Dave Goldberg a football writer maybe there in t a quarterback shortage in the nil after All. On a Day when two of the Best Jim Kelly and Dan Marino we recombining for no touchdowns in Buffalo s 9-6 win Over Miami sunday was otherwise a Day for quarterbacks in Victory and defeat Start with Joe Montana Jim Mcmahon Doug Williams John Elway and Boomer Esiason Victory and Phil Simms and Randall Cunningham defeat. Throw in such youngsters As hous ton s Cody Carlson Victory and new Orleans Bobby he Bart and Atlanta s Chris Miller and Pittsburgh s Bubb Blister defeat and you wonder Why so Many coaches complain that there arc too few Young quarterbacks. The biggest splash came from Mon Tana who threw a 78-Yard touchdown pass to Jerry Rice with 42 seconds left to give san Francisco a 20-17 win Over the new York giants. Just 39 seconds earlier Simms had thrown is Yards to Lionel Manuel to give the giants the Lead. The two Best quarterback duet were in Washington and Philadelphia. The redskins Down 29-20 with less than 10 minutes to play finally dropped the bomb oriented offence Williams had used for the first two weeks and rallied to beat the Sec clerk 30-29. It was the second straight week that Williams who was 30 of 52 for 430 Yards and two touchdowns had thrown More than so passes. But unlike last week s loss to the giants where he looked like the mad bomber he used series of Short passes to set up Chip Lohmiller s winning Field goal. Brister meanwhile was 12 for 28 nil trend for 258 Yards and two touchdowns in Philadelphia Cincinnati s Esia son won his Duel with Cunningham. He was 20 of 32 for 362 Yards and four touchdowns while Cunningham was 25 of 36 for 261 Yards Ana one touchdown and As usual led the eagles in Rushing with 85 Yards in nine  second half was a shootout that ended when Cunningham missed Cris Carter in the end zone from the bengals it with 14secondslcft. Mcmahon meanwhile was his old self in Chicago s 17-13 win Over Indi Anapolis. His stats 19 of 31 for 136 Yards were fair his leadership and clutch play Brilliant. His biggest play came on a third and-10 from his own 36 in the fourth Quarter with Indianapolis holding a 13-10 Lead. He first held up play several min utes to quiet the roaring Hoosier dome crowd. Then with a Bettzer hanging on he managed to soft an 11-Yard pass to Rookie Wendell Davis who made a leaping catch Piying the Ball away from Eugene Daniel to continue a drive for the winning to. As for the others Carlson a second year Man from Baylor who was subbing for the injured Warren Moon was 21 of 34 for276 Yards and a touchdown As hous ton rallied to beat the raiders 38-35. He Bart was 20 of 27 for 222 Yards and a touchdown while Miller virtually a Rookie after holding out half of last year threw for two touch Downs for the Falcons. And Elway mediocre in Den ver s opening loss a week ago was 17 of 28 for 259 Yards. Davey Allison sets earnings Mark in Richmond win j Richmond a. A Davey Allison setting a record for the fewest races needed to surpass $1 Mil lion in career winnings took advantage of a blown engine by Ricky Rudd and won sunday s Miller 400, the inaugural Winston cup event at the new Rich mond International raceway. Allison who started on the pole in his Ford thunderbird averaged 95.770 Moh on the shaped track the Only three Quarter mile layout on the Winston cup Trail his margin of Victory was 3.25 seconds Over Dale Earnhardt. Terry in Bonne was third followed by Mark Martin and Alan Kulwicki. Allison Ted five times for 262 of the race s 400  the racers went Back to Green on Lap 332, follow ing the fifth and final caution of the afternoon Rudd surged ahead of him. Rudd maintained a slim advantage until his Buick began smoking and slowed off the Pace on Lap 347, giving the Lead Back to Allison for Good. Rudd parked his car and wound up 26th. Allison who won $57,800, had entered his 52nd race needing Only $5,015 to break the $1 million Mark. Theold record was 76 races by Dale Earnhardt in 1981. It was the second Victory of the year for Allison 27, of Hueytown,.ala., who won two races last season Enro Ute to being named Rookie of the year Allison s father Bobby who was injured in a june19 crash at Long Pond pa., gave the command to Start the engines at sunday s race. The elder Allison was speaking Over the track s Public address system through a Hook up from the rehabilitation Center i Birmingham ala., where he is recovering