European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 01, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday May 1,1989 the stars and stripes Page 23 Stewart gains 5th Victory As a s nip tigers Stewart by t associated press Oakland Calif. Dave Stewart became major leagues first five game Winner As the Oakland a s beat the Detroit tigers 3-2 saturday. Stewart 5-0, j pitched a five hit tar struck out one and walked one inthe first Complete game of the season by an Oakland Pitcher. He has not lost in april in the past three years and is 14-0 in 15 starts during that period. The athletics have won 10 of their last 11. Detroit has lost four straight games. The a s scored the go ahead run in the eighth inning on Center fielder Ken Wil Liams error. Luis Polonia opened the Oakland inning with a Blooper that Wen for a triple when Williams collided with left fielder Fred Lynn and scored on the play when Williams throw bounced away from third baseman Torey Lovullo. Doyle Alexander 3-1, saw his six game winning Streak end As he lost for the first time in 10 starts going Back to sept. 6. In other games saturday Yankees 8, White sox 2 new York Roberto Kelly and Steve sax each drove in two runs and Ken Phelps added four hits As new York beat Chicago. Kelly singled Home two runs in the second inning to snap a 1-1 tic that enabled Dave Lapoint 3-1, to gain a Victory in his first career Start against a team for which he pitched parts of the last two seasons. Indians 4, twins 1 Minneapolis Frank Viola the 1988 american league by Young award Al Roundup Winner Tell to 0-4 and Minnesota lost its seventh straight game As John Farrell i i allowed six hits in 8vi innings to Lead Cleveland past the twins. Pete o Brien had two Bis in boost ing his major league leading batting average to .408 with three doubles. Luis Medina homered and Oddie Mcdow Ell sparkled offensively and defensively for Cleveland. Royals 4, Brewers 3 Kansas City to. Danny Tarta Bull s run scoring single with one out in the Lola inning gave Kansas City a Victory Over Milwaukee for the royals team record Isth Triumph in the month of april. Dan Plesac 1-1, gave up a single to Kevin Seitzjr and walked Ray Palacios. Tartabull then followed with a single to left Field. Tom Gordon pitched two innings of hit less Relief to improve to 4-0. In the first inning royals first base Man George Brett suffered a torn Liga ment in his right knee and will be Side lined for an extended period. See Story on Page 27. With the Brewers leading 3-2 in the eighth Seitzjr doubled with two outs off Chuck Crim and Plesac relieved to face Bill Buckner. Buckner hit a grounder to Gary Shef Field but the Rookie shortstop s throw pulled Terry Francona off first base for an error and Tartabull followed with a game tying single. Rangers 7-5, red sox 6-8 Arlington Texas Ellis Burks homered twice to drive in four runs As Boston rallied for an 8-5 Victory Over Texas after the rangers won the comple Tion of a suspended game on Julio fran co s 12th-inning Homer. Knuckle Ballor Charlie Hough 2-2, Al Lowed Burks third Homer of the season after de Romero singled in the seventh Detroit s Fred Lynn robs Mark Mcgwire of a hit with a spectacular catch saturday. Inning As the red sox took a 6-4 Lead. In the ninth Romero singled with one out and Burks homered of reliever Jeff Russell. Wes Gardner la allowed 10 hits and five runs two on Franco s two run Homer in Texas four run first inning. After Cecil Espy s rib single with two outs in the ninth Lee Smith replaced Gardner for his second save. Dwight Evans two run Homer keyed a three run Boston second inning. In the suspended game. Franco Hom ered on a 2-2 pitch from Rob Murphy 0 2. Franco s Home run gave him 21 Bis setting a club record for april. Mariners 4, orioles 3 Seattle Alvin Davis run scor ing single snapped a sixth inning tie and Mark Langston allowed six hits in eight innings As Seattle beat , 3-3, struck out eight and walked five. Mike schooler retired the Side in the ninth for his second save. An cos 4, Blue jays 3anaheim, Calif. Johnny Ray s bases loaded sacrifice Fly with one out inthe 10th inning gave California a Victory Over Toronto As Rookie Jim Abbott pitched his Best game of the year for the , who did not gel a decision pitched eight innings and struck out a season High nine. He allowed nine hit Sand three runs and walked none. Ray also singled in the tying run in the eighth. Cardinals slip past dodgers 1-0 in ii by the associated press St. Louis Jose Oquindo singled Home the win Ning run with two outs in the 11th inning saturday an the St. Louis cardinals beat the los Angeles dodgers 1 -0. Fernando Valc Nucla pitched seven shutout innings for los Angeles and Rookie Ken Hill went eight inning for the cardinals before relievers look Over. Vince Coltman doubled on Ray scar age s first pitch of the i Ith and took third on Ozzie Smith s sacrifice. Terry Pendleton and Pedro Guerrero were intentionally walked to Load the bases and Tim Crews retired Tom Brunansky on a Popup before Oquendo hit an 0-2 pitch to right Field. Cris Carpenter 1-1, pitched one inning for the Vic tory and scar age 0-2, was the loser. I n other games saturday expos 9, braves 7 Montreal Tim Raines drove in four runs and the Montreal expos handed Atlanta its fifth straight loss. Raines singled twice in three at Bals and hit two Sacri fice Flics. He tied his career High for Bis in a Evans hit two Solo Home runs for Atlanta. The expos overcame a 6-5 deficit by scoring four runs in the seventh inning. Tim Burke pitched two scoreless innings for his fifth save in Relief of Joe Hesketh 3-0. Giants 4, pirates 3 Pittsburgh Kevin Mitchell and Terry Ken Nedy hit Solo Home runs in the ninth inning to give san no Roundup Francisco a Victory Over Pittsburgh. The pirates scored in the eighth for a 3-2 Lead before the giants rallied. Mitchell hit reliever Jeff Robinson s first Pilch of the ninth for his sixth Home run and Kennedy connected with two outs for his second Homer. Mike Lacoss 1-1, got the Victory despite Allowin Pittsburgh to score in the eighth. He walked the bases loaded and Gary Rcd us sacrifice Fly scored inc tic breaking run. Robinson 2-3, was the loser. Philles 8, reds 0 Philadelphia Chris James hit a grand slam and Mike Maddux allowed just two hits As Phila Delphia beat Danny Jackson and Cincinnati in a game halted by rain in the fifth inning. The Start of the game was delayed 2 hours by rain. It was slopped in the b9ttom of the fifth after another delay of one hour 32 minutes. Maddux 1-0, struck out four and walked one in his first Start of the season. Jackson 1-5, lost his fifth straight decision. The Phillies ended a three game losing Steak and slopped the reds the acc Gam winning siring. Padres 5, cubs 4 Chicago Mark Davis stopped a Chicago rally in the seventh and earned his 1 Ith save in 11 chances and John Kruk hit a two run Homer leading san Diego past the cubs in a game marred by ii the padres made a team record tying six error leading to two unearned runs and inc cubs committed five errors leading to two unearned runs. Walt Terrell 3-2, left in the seventh inning Afler the cubs had scored a run on second baseman Roberto Alomar s third error of inc game and successive single by Pinch Batter Phil Stan Hanson and Curt Wilkerson. Davis came in and Mitch Webster bunted the runners to second and third. Sync Sandburg reached first on a throwing error by Davis but the reliever got Andre Daw son to hit into an inning ending double play. Acts 5, astros 1 Houston Ron Darling won his first game of the season with a two hitter Over seven innings and Howard Johnson had four hits As new Yorr beat Houston 5-1 to extend its winning Streak to six games. Darling who struck out three got Relief help from Don Aase and Randy Myers As inc three combined on a four hitter. Myers pitched i / innings for his fifth save. Trailing 1-0 in the sixth the mils took a 2-1 Lead on four consecutive singles by Johnson Keith Hernandez Darryl Strawberry and Kevin Mcreynolds off Bob Knapp or 1-4.kncpper, who pitched five plus innings has lost four of his last five starts against the mils. New York broke inc game open with three runs inthe ninth off Bob Forsch. Kevin Elster singled and scored on Len Dykstra double. Johnson who was filling in for the injured Gregg Jeff cries followed with his fourth Homer of the
