European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 20, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday August 20,19b9 the stars and stripes Page 21 sports astros close Book on cubs Emmer s unorthodox move backfires by Ben Walker a baseball writer Houston Don Zimmer defied inc Book again. And this time it did t work. Zimmer ordered an Odd intentional walk and the strategy backfired when the Houston astros rallied for two runs in the Bottom of the ninth inning Friday night and beat the Chicago cubs 6-5. Andre Dawson got his 2,000th career hit and Rookie Jerome Walton tied a team record by hitting in his 28th straight game As the cubs took an Early 5-0 Lead. But Houston chipped away and doubles by Bill Doran and Glenn Davis tied it in the , with two outs and runners on first and Sec Ond the cubs manager told Jeff Pico to intentionally walk Pinch hitter Harry Spilman just 2-for-t2 this season for brought up Rafael Ramirez already 2-for-3. And five times this year Ramirez had gotten game winning hits in extra be seen Spilman get a lot of Pinch hits and i be made that move a lot of times Zimmer said. I have Confidence in my Relief pitchers that they would t walk a Batter in that but Pico who had not pitched in eight Days walked Ramirez on five pitches. In other games Friday sets world record Mexico s Arturo Barrios set a world record in the 10,000-meter run in West Berlin Friday night with a time of 27 08.23. See Page 24 for results of the staf track and Field Mobil grand prix meet an sports television baseball new York at Detroit 7 to . Sunday. Auto racing Pocono 500, taped Midnight sunday. Radio baseball Kansas City at Seattle 1030 pan. Sunday. No Roundup inside sports Irish Eye another Crown Page 23 Usa eur softball finals open Page 25 Rhein Maln Spang go 2-0 Page 26 orioles finally Landing their no. 1 Page 27 mets 3, dodgers 2 new York David Cone won his eighth consecutive decision As Orel harsh scr s wild pitch enabled new York to beat los Angeles. The mets won for the ninth time in 11 games and arc 14-4 this month. Cone 11-5, is 8-0 at Home this year and 18-1 Over two seasons. He gave up seven hits including Eddie Murray s two run Homer in eight innings and Randy Myers got his 20th save. Giants 5, Phillies 2 Philadelphia Rick re Uschel activated from the disabled list on wednesday got his 204th career Victory and will Clark homered As san Francisco won in , 14-5, made his first appearance since july 29 and gave up two runs in six innings. Steve Bedro Sian. Facing the Phillies for the first time since Phila Delphia traded him in june got his 17th save. Reds 6-8, cardinals 2-3 Cincinnati Todd Benzinger went 5-for-8 with a grand slam and drove in seven runs As Cincinnati swept St. Louis swept a that was delayed for three hours by hit a three run Homer his 12th, and a double in the opener. He tripled and hit his third Ca reer slam in the second game. Expos 5, padres 2 Montreal Pascual Perez pitched a six Hitler and squeezed Home the go ahead run As Montreal beat san Diego for its fourth Victory in 5 , 7-12, struck out seven and walked two. Andy Bencs 0-2, lost his second major league Start. Braves 13, pirates 6atlanta Darrell Evans and John Russell Hom ered and Lonnie Smith got three of Atlanta s 15 hits As the braves ended a four game slide by beating Pittsburgh. Evans 414th career Homer a Solo shot made it 4-All in the first inning. Smith hit an rib single in the second bal Bob walk 10-8. Brewers stay hot draw near orioles by the associated press Milwaukee Billy Spiers two run single capped a four run second inning and . Surhoff had three hits As the streaking Milwaukee Brewers beat the slumping Boston red sox 5-2 Friday night for their eighth straight Victory. Milwaukee 22-9 since july 18, moved within a Hal game of first place Baltimore in the american league East when the orioles lost to Toronto 9-2. The fifth place red sox have lost six straight and arc 5 i games out. Greg Vaughn walked to Start the Milwaukee second against Tom Bolton 0-4. Joey Meyer singled him to third and Vaughn scored on surhoff single. Meyer and surhoff advanced on a wild pitch and Mike Feldor bunted for a hit to score Meyer. Folder stole second and he and surhoff scored on Spiers single. Boston collected four hits in the first inning but managed Only one run off Tom Filer 4-1. Ellis Burks Mike Green will and Nick Esasky had consecutive two out singles for the red sox run. In other games Friday Blue jays 9, orioles 2 Baltimore Mauro Goose Gozzo earned his third Victory in As Many major league starts and George Bell cookie Wilson and Lee Mazzilli Hom ered. The setback Cut Baltimore s Lead Over Milwaukee in the Al East to one half game the orioles smallest margin since they moved into first place on May 26. Third place Toronto is i i games Back Gozzo allowed eight hits and both Baltimore runs in seven innings. Baltimore starter Dave Johnson yielded the three Toronto homers and left in the fourth inning after the first three batters reached safely. He gave up seven hits and five runs. Rangers 6, White sox s Chicago Steve Buechle broke out of a 7-for-48 slump with a three run Homer and Mike Juffcoat held Chicago to four hits in 6% innings. Jeffcoat yielded Only two hits until the seventh inning when the White sox scored their first three runs All came on Dave Gallagher s single. Jeff Russell the fourth Texas Pitcher got the Las two outs for his 27th save. He gave up an rib double to Ivan Calderon the run was charged to Kenn Rogers but struck out Carlos Martinez with the bases loaded to end the game a Roundup tigers 7, Yankees 3 Detroit Detroit spoiled Bucky Dent s debut As manager of the new York Yankees by hitting season High five Home runs including four in the first four innings in route to its Victory. Jeff Robinson 3-2, yielded four hits and an unearned run in eight innings and improved his career record at Tiger stadium to 14-5. Guillermo Hernandez pitched the ninth and gave up a two run Homer to Bob go run his sixth. Royals 3, mariners 1 Seattle Rookie Tom Gordon held Seattle to two hits in eight innings and Jim Eisenreich and Frank White homered. Gordon 15-4, won his fourth consecutive Start to tie Oakland s Mike Moore As the second winning est Pitcher in the american league. He also equated his career High with 10 strikeouts. The royals took a 2-0 Lead off Rookie Clint Zavaras in the second inning As to Jackson singled and scored on Eisenreich s fifth Home run. White led off the fifth with a Home run to snap a siring of 500 at bats without one. It was his first since aug. 9, 1988. Seattle scored in the eighth on Alvin Davis two out Homer. Twins 4, athletics 3 Oakland Calif. Gary Gatli s two run Homer highlighted Minnesota s four run first inning As the twins again proved to be Dave Stewart s Nemesis. Stewart 16-8, failed for the third time to get his 17th Victory and saw his career record against Minnesota drop to 3-10. Minnesota s Roy Smith allowed two runs and eight hits in eight innings and is 5-0 in his last seven starts. Angels 6, indians s Anaheim Calif. Claudell Washington tripled with one out in the seventh inning and scored on Johnny Ray s single lifting the Angels Back into first place in the american league West. The Angels Are 72-48 and Lead Oakland 73-49, by .002. The athletics lost to Minnesota 4-3. The seventh inning hits came off Rookie reliever Steve Olin 1-1. Greg minion 2-3, relieved starter Jim Abbott with two out in the sixth and retired All four batters he faced for the Victory. Bryan Harvey pitched the final two innings for his 19th save. Of
