European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 24, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 26 the stars and stripes saturday september 24,198s tigers top o s 7-4, gain ground by the associated press Baltimore Tom Brookins iwo no double highlighted a four run fourth inning and the Detroit tigers pulled within 4w games of first place in the american league East by beating the Baltimore Ori Oles 7-4 thursday night the tigers who have won three straight moved into a lie for third with new York and gained a half game on Boston which was Idle. Milwaukee is in Sec Ond four games Back. Detroit has nine games left Boston has 10. The fourth inning rally wiped out a 3-2 Baltimore Lead. Mall Nokes led off with a double against Dave Al Roundup Schimdt 8-5, and diet Lemon walked one out later. Brookens drove in both runners with a double to left Center and Dave Bergman allowed with an rib Dou ble to Chase Schmidt. Dwayne Murphy greeted Jay Tibb with a run scoring single. Bergman added an rib single in the sixth. Ted Power 6-7. Replaced starter Frank Tanana in the hint and allowed one run on six hits in 3vj innings. Mike Henneman the fourth Detroit Pitcher worked 1 i innings for his 21 is save in the Only other Al game no from Page 21 the 1986 division clincher fiasco against Chicago when the spectators ripped apart the turf this time the fans stayed off encouraged in part by 80 mounted police. After Darling struck out Lance Parrish on a checked swing to end it the mets tumbled atop Darling in front of the Mound in Celebration. This was sort of Antic limit in Hernandez said. We knew we were going to win. In 1986 twas the first title for the mets in a Long Lime. We have to go for i More than this to have a Success-1 like the season the game was i a struggle not a Blowout. Phila Delphia took the Lead in the fourth on a sacrifice Fly by von Hayes but the mets tied in in fifth when Kevin Elster doubled look third on Moosic Wilson s infield single and scored on Gregg Jeff cries grounder to shortstop. Then in the sixth the mets went ahead. Darryl Straw Berry walked went to third on a single by Kevin Mcreynolds and scored on a wild Pilch by Don Carman. It was a team Effort Alt the Way Strawberry said. In will be Nice to play the dodgers. We know what we have to the acts added a run in the seventh when cookie Wilson scored from second on Mcreynolds infield single. Wilson had three hits for the acts and extended his hitting Streak to 13 games. Darling 16-9, struck out four and walked one in his fourth straight Victory and his seventh Complete game. After their previous division titles the acts went on to lie Pennant. In 1969, the lowly mets came out of no where won 100 games to Lake the division away from Chicago swept Atlanta in the first no playoffs and then shocked Baltimore in five to take the world series. In 1973, the mels won the division title Wilh just an 82-79 record beat Cincinnati in five in the playoff Sand lost a seven game world series to Oakland after leading three games to two. In other no games thursday astros 3, braves 2 Houston Craig Biggin homered and Bill Hatcher nil an rib single As the Houston astros rallied for two runs in the seventh inning and beat Atlanta handing the braves their 99th loss of the season. Reds 3, giant 1 Cincinnati Jack Armstrong allowed Sanfrancisco just two hits in six innings and John Franco closed the game by giving up just one hit Over the final two innings to give Cincinnati a 3-1 Victory that mathematically eliminated the defending National league West champions. Padres a dodgers 4 los Angeles carmelo Martinez was benched thursday night by the san Diego padres and in turned out to be the spark that ended his slump. Martinez entered the the game after John got Hurt in a collision at Home plate. Martinez then hit a pair of Solo homers and scored three runs to Lead the padres past the dodgers. Eric show won for the eighth Lime in nine decisions As the dodgers magic number remained at three. Twins 6, Angels 2 Anaheim Calif. Brian Harper once 8 califor Nia Prospect was pure Gold thursday night. This was fun. I be been struggling lately at the plate and it s Nice to come out fit Wilh a night like this. Harper said after going 3-for-4 and driving in two runs in Minnesota s twins improved their away record to 41-37. Assuring them of their first winning season on the Road in nine years. Minnesota won the world series last year despite finishing 29-52 on the Road during the regular Anderson 15-9, won for the ninth time in his task 11 decisions. Olympics from Page 21 mets from Page 21 1969, they had 28 shutouts. During their mid season malaise the mils continually left runners in scoring position made mental mis takes on the a Spalhs and lost interest when it did t seem to matter. The acts mood got even worse when All Star first baseman Keith Hernandez went Down with a Ham string injury in St. Louis on june 13 and missed about two months. Keith Hernandez is the Only Guy who takes Over the leadership of this club said Strawberry who leads the league with 36 homers. For us to get pumped up that s not my place. We need Strawberry slumped in late july and August but the mils were picked up by soft spoken left fielder Kevin Mcreynolds who makes his noise Al the plate. Mcreynolds has 25 homers 92 Bis and has been hitting near .300 Wilh runners in scoring position most of the season. With Hernandez out of the lineup the mels lost their direction and their big Lead Over Pittsburgh. In 1986, the mets gained a reputation for having a knockout punch but this season they jabbed and Back peddled much of the Lime. In fact the mets thought they had decked the i Rales after winning two of three in Pittsburgh in late june the final game an 8-7 Victory in 11 innings after they lied in with two outs in the ninth on a iwo strike Homer by Howard Johnson off Jim Coll. But the pirates bounced Back to win nine straight and 12 of 13, including a three game sweep in los Angeles. The acts Low Point came on july 19 in Cincinnat when the reds scored 10 runs in the first inning in route to an 11-2 Victory As their Lead slipped to 1wgames Over Pittsburgh. In late july the mets took three of four from Pitts Burgh at Shea by allowing the pirates one run in the first three games. The next weekend in Pittsburgh the acts again took three of four allowing eight runs. Forthe season the mets took 12 of 18 from the pirates. The mils thought they bad things under control again but then lost four straight on the Road to san Francisco and san Diego As the pirates moved to within 3 again the mils turned in on when they had to by sweeping the dodgers in los Angeles while he pirates offence turned Oft this is a Good club but it s not a great club said just show up and expect to mets led the pirates by tvs games when Rookie infielder Gregg Jeff cries was summoned from class aaa Tidewater to replace the injured Wally Backmann aug. 27. The plan was to use Gregg As a Pinch hitter a occasional Start and Laic inning replacement Davey Johnson plan changed and so did the mcts1 sputtering offence. In Jeff cries first Start on aug. 28 against san fran Cisco he went 2-for-5 and the next Day against san Diego he was 3-for-4 Wilh a double triple and Home run he sparked our offence mets baiting coach Bill Robinson said. We were in first place when he got Here but we pulled away when he got into the lineup the mels opponent in the no playoffs seems cer Tain to be los Angeles a team new York has beaten in 10 of 1 meetings this season. There s really no explanation for it ii should t be that Way Johnson said. The mels will open Wilh Coodin in the playoffs and he has been particularly Tough at dodger stadium. Infix career slam in los Angele Gooden is 4-0 with a 0.34 Era you know they re going to be close games Good in said. There Aren t going to be a whole lol of runs Low Ork Wilh and you have to keep your concentration the whole Side the olympic stadium As the Day began with the women s Marathon. Traffic snarls on the streets and Bridges of hot humid Seoul delayed fans trying to gel to the Mola inc atomic ant of Portugal bounded Over the 26-mile, 385-Yard course of the women s mar Albon in 2 hours 25 minutes 39 seconds to add a Gold to the Bronze she won in the same race in the 1984 los Angeles . Track team started off with a Silver medal in the shot Pul. East Germany s Ulf Timmermann came through on his last heave to win inc shot Al 73 feet 8vj inches. That edged Oul Randy Barnes of Charleston w.va., who tools the Silver Al 73-iv., Wymer gun Hoer of Switzerland was third at 72-1 americans showed some fire when Lewis blazed to the Only sub-10-second Lime of the Day in winning his second 100-meter qualifying complained about the Quick trigger Finger of inc starter something that could give rival Ben John son of Canada an advantage in the finals saturday because of Johnson s lower faster starting position. We were told All summer we d have a Long gun Lewis said but then we come Here and it s a Quick gun. It definitely caught me by Surprise in the first round Lewis ran 10.14 in his first heat. Johnson who holds the 100 world record of 9.83, blasted Oul of inc blocks in the first heat grabbed a huge Lead then coasted to a 10.37 finish. In the second i round he ran 10.17 but finished third behind Britain Linford Christie and american Dennis Mitchell. Edwin Moses seeking his third olympic Gold in the 400 hurdles sped to easy Victory in his firs heal. Joyner Klensce is on a Pace to become the first woman i to crack the 7,000-Point Barrier in the olympic he plan Lon a grueling series of seven events whose Winner is often dubbed the world s greatest woman Joyner Kence the Only woman to go Over 7,000 Points in any heptathlon won a Silver in 1984 and is three events away from a Gold. She set an olympic record of 12.69 seconds in the 100-meter High hurdles then High jumped 6 feet one fourth Inch threw the shot 51 feet 10 inches and ran 200 meters in 22.56, breaking the olympic record of 22,96,the sister of 1984 olympic triple jump Champion Al. Joyner and sister in Law of sprint world Champion i Florence Griffith Joyner finished inc Day with 4,264 i Points an olympic record for the first Day. Easl Ger i mans Sufaine John and Anke Behmr were second and i third with 4,083 Points and 3,986 Point respectively. Mary Slaney America s Best Middle distance runner had a frightening Flashback to her 1984 olympic collision with Zola Budd thai knocked Heroul of the 3,000. This time in the 3,000 qualifier someone clipped her Heel near the finish and my mind Well Back to 1984," Slaney said. She stayed up though and crossed the line in fourth to make the finals it was a Little scary Slaney said. It just made me think of los Angeles for a Only violence at the boxing Arena Friday was appropriately Between the boxers after five korean officials were banned for thursday s attack on a new zealand Ellis a 132-Pound Southpaw with fast hands from Ellenwood ga., anticipated a Lough Lime against korean Lee Kang Suk but came away with a 5-0 decision thai did t Lead to any complaints from the crowd or Lee s , Todd Foster 139. Of great Falls. Mont., gave the americans another Victory knocking out Khalid Razilou of Morocco with a right hand at 2 19 of the second round. Foster knocked Razilou Down twice before delivering the knockout right to the Mercer the former Usa eur heavyweight Champion stationed in Baum older. Is scheduled to meet a czechoslovakian in his first bout at 3 30 . Get monday
