European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 15, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 26 the stars and stripes wednesday. March 15,1989 baseball gets less than it pays for by Ronald Blum new Vork a the mos expensive lineup in Hii Whill this season coils j 9.4 Injian Flint before scoring 10 straight Points mrs in the third , closing the Lap to 64-51. Thei it Nam new Jersey Gol thereafter was 12 Points. Suns in meat 104 Defeated Miami behind Kevin Johnson s 13 Points and 20 by Tom Chambers including six during a 13-3 fourth Quarter spurt. The suns led 90-84 before the heat scored five straight Points to Tut their deficit to one wiih.623 left. Johnson Ihnn turned the 13-3. Run with iwo free throws. Alter Chambers hit three baskets Johnson added two More free throws and Eddie Johns hit a 3-Point to to nuke i 103-92 Wilh three Manulis left i Piini scored the next seven Points five by ror 1 Sparrow,.to close the Gap to 103-99 with 1 45 to play. Eddie a Ohmori Lhnn a ored the next Tive Points for in suns to put the game Oul of reach. Clippers jl5, san Antonio los Angeles snapped a 20-gamcro.id losing sneak and won Only Lor the third Lime away from Home As Benoit Benjamin matched uis sea son High with 2t paints against san Antonio. Kwitkie Gary a earner Best 23 Point for the had not won on the Road since dec. 23, when they heal Hie spurs 114-108 los an Geles is 303 away from Home. Leading by four Points with seven minutes logo Inibig and Dennis Manine billowed one run on two Hili m file inning for the typos Jeff mus clean pile hed four Huleis Minnei for to Ronto and four rid users complied a shutout. Elsewhere in was it new Vort Ankles 3, Whiteson spin Subil 2 she while son is ii Philadelphia 6 Toms 7, Kiwi Liuti is 5 Minnesota a Cincinnati w 7seautc 7. 4, Milwaukee 8. San Diego 4chicago Cubb it san Francisco 0. Cleveland 5, califor Nia 3. And Kansas City and Boston sued to u 7-7 tie in 13 innings. Montreal s Rick Green 5 und new York s pal Lafontain make is Sandwich of Guy carb Andrau s hrad Mot Day rangers Surprise flames 4-3 new Vork a there s apparently nothing wrong with the new York hunger Power play that won t Curc the rangers got plenty of it monday night a route to a 4-j Victory Over inc Calgary flames Healing Calgary was a big lift Tor us Ranger coach Michel Bergeron said after his team broke a Sivc Gam closing Streak and broke out of a Power play stump As Well. We had to Stop the losing Streak and beating Calgary made it All thai much the loss stopped the flames from tying the Mon Treal canadians forthe no. 1 record in the nil ,-5-3 losers to the islanders in the. Only other nil game monday night remained in paints ahead of the flanges in the. Overall race with 101. In beating the flames for the first time in three games this season the rangers clicked on three of five Poer play chances. That was Good news consid ering the rangers Are ranked 20th in the league in the Power play and had Only converted two of 19 previous chances we just tried Tordai tonight sind Tonias Sands trom. Who scored two goals including the game win Ner Wilh 4.59 remaining. We Gol a i-on-3 for a my ule and that helped a lot once be got the first Power play goal it helped Pur Confidence and took sonic of the pressure off Sandstrom got the firs one for the rangers who t old a two Man advantage Bechum of a High sticking penalty to Brad Mccammon. The Calgary do fun Eman was i minded a game misconduct when he Drew blood Ith his Slick from rangers Rookie Darren Turcotte i would t do anything like that on purpose me not Roundup Crimmon said. It was definitely an Accident. But the Way the Rule reads i have to abide by it the ejection " inter Lional or not it Cost the Hames. The rangers quickly capitalized when Sandstrom scored at 17 08,53 seconds after the penalty to Mccrimmon they still had most of Mccrimmon s five minute Penally left when they scored again on Carey Wilson s goal al19 02. Joel Otto lipped in a Blue line shot by Al Mclnnis at s50 of the second a Power play for Cal Gary s first Goat Bui John Ogrodnick backhanded a deflection past Calgary goalie Rich Wamsly at 12 51 on the Power play restoring inc rangers two Goa Lead. With the Victory inc rangers climbed into a first place tic with Washington in the Patrick division. Tile rangers have nine games left in the regular season and the capitals 10. The Pill Burgh i penguins Are one Pool behind the co Lead cry the Rames meanwhile lost for the first Lime in Lour games. In monday s other game islanders 5, i Scuilli is 3 Montreal Bryan trollier scored the lie area Keg Coal with 2.11 remaining As the islanders with the Cumi Points in the nil beat the league leading canadians Trottier tipped a shot by defens Eman Mure a Crevin past goalie Brian hav Ord for Hii i7lh goal of it season. The goal Chi Ute a Clorus of Boos from the forum Crow clog 16,651 Tho saw the canadians six game winning Streak ended
