European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 29, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday August 29.1989 the stars and stripes Page 21 cycling Champion american cyclist and tour de France Champion Greg Lemond plants a kiss on the medal he won Tor capturing the professional men s title in the world cycling championships at chamber France on sunday. Sports Welch s  Henderson or boost athletics by the associated press Kansas City once again. Bob Welch rushed to the Rescue for the Oak land athletics. Welch ran his scoreless Streak to 24. Pitching five hit Ball for eight innings As the Oakland athletics ended a three game losing Streak sunday with a 6-0 Victory Over the Kansas City royals. Rickey Henderson hit a three run Home run As Oakland moved 3 / games ahead of third place Kansas City in the american league West. The athletics avoided a three game sweep and finished the season 2-4 in royals stadium. Welch is on a Good Roll right now. Making a lot of Quality pitches said Oakland manager Tony Larussa. Whose club avoided tying its longest losing Streak of the year. We be won this Type of game several times the one where it books like you re Starling to go Back  Welch. 15-7 won his fourth consecutive Start and Cal the royals for the first time in three career decisions. Den Nis Eckersley finished with one hit Relief As Kansas City was handed its league High 15th shutout. We re in a Heck of a baseball  Welch said. It la be a dogfight to the end. This was definitely a big Victory for us. It Cut off a losing Streak and came against a team that was playing excellent  the royals have won ii of their past 13 games. They took two of the three games against division leading Oakland and three of four against second place California last week. We put the feeling in their minds that Well have to be reckoned  Kansas City manager John Wathan said. We showed Oakland and California we re going to be Tough to beat Down the stretch. For us it was a great week. Toda we got beat by a very Good Pitcher hav ing an outstanding  Tom Gordon 16-5, had his five game winning Streak stopped and lost for the Al Roundup first time since july 27. The Rookie right hander gave up three runs in the second inning then retired 16 straight batters before issuing two seventh inning walks and Henderson s Homer. In other games sunday orioles 8, Yankees 5 new York Bob Mclvin s first Homer in More than a year keyed a four run second inning and Bali More took advantage of four errors to heal new York for its ninth Victory in 10 games. Mclvin drove in four runs with a three run Homer and Rill triple. Mike Bever Caux had three of the orioles 12 hits and Cal Ripken also homered As the Yankees fell to 2-9 under manager Ducky Dent. The first place orioles stayed i games ahead of Toronto in the american league East. Hob Milacki 9-11. Survived Early trouble to win for the third time in four starts. He allowed eight hits walked one and struck out six for Only his third com plete game in 29 starts. Greg Cadaret 4-4, Allrud eight hits and four earned runs in four innings los ing for the first time this season in foul decisions at Yankee stadium. Blue jays 5, Brewers 4 Toronto George  his hitting Streak to a career High in Barnes w ii a two run triple in. A five run fifth inning and Toronto won its season High sixth straight while handing Mil Waukee its sixth consecutive loss. Cire Brock s two run Homer capped a three run third that put Milwaukee ahead 3-0 against Todd Stoll Lemyrt. 5-5. But Toronto bounced Back in the fifth against Chris Bosio 14-8. Red sox 7, tigers 1 Boston Ellis Burks hit his fifth grand slam in less than three major league seasons As surging Boston took advantage of More gifts from Detroit. See Al on Page 26 cubs rally to beat braves in 10by the associated press Chicago the Atlanta braves were asking for trouble and Andre Dawson gave it to then. The Chicago cubs tied the game with two outs in the ninth inning on Damn Jackson s single and won it in the i oth when Dawson. Given a Chance to Bat be cause of an intentional walk hit an rib single sunday for a 3-2 Victory Over Atlanta. Shawon Dunston led off the 10th with a walk moved to second on a sacrifice and reached third on an infield out. After Mark Grace was intentionally walked by Mark Eichhorn. Dawson singled to Center Field. "1 could t believe it Grace said of the intentional pass. That s got to be a career first walking me to get to Dawson. When i got to first first baseman Tommy Gregg said. Nothing against you but that was a mis take. Dawson golfer a 1-2 pitch from Eichhorn 4-5. He s real Tough. I just wanted to put the Ball in play  Dawson  manager Russ Nixon said he played the percentages by having the right handed Eichhorn 4-5.walk the left handed Grace to face Dawson. A right hander. No Roundup yes it was the righty Lefly thing he said. The Victory was Only the second in nine games for the cubs no Lead Montreal by two games in the National league East. Oddie Mcdowell tripled to tic the game and Atlanta took the Lead on a single by Jeff Blauser in the seventh. Jeff Treadway led off with a single and scored on Mcdowell s one out triple to the right Field Comer that finished Rookie Steve Wilson. Los Lancaster came on to face Blauser who ripped a hit to Center. Chicago had taken a 1-0 Lead in the fourth when Grace had led off with a double scoring on a single by Dawson. Mitch Williams 4-2, was the  other games sunday astros 6, cardinals 3 Houston Ken Caminiti drove in three runs two on a double in the sixth inning As Houston broke a five game losing Streak with a Victory Over St. Louis. With Houston trailing 3-2, Glenn Davis reached on an infield single with one out against Ted Power 5-6. One out later. Terry Puhl walked before Caminiti lined a one Hopper against the right Field Wall. Glenn Wilson added a two run double for Houston in the seventh. Bob Forsch. 4-4. Went six innings and Gac up three runs on four hits while walking two and sinking oui two. Dave Smith the third Houston Pitcher worked the final inning for his 23rd save in 27 opportunities. The loss was Only the fourth in 14 games for is. Louis which look a 2-0 Lead in the third on Willie Mcgee s third Homer. It drove in Tony Pena who had singled. Expos 6, giants 3 san Francisco Andres Galarraga hit a grand slam and drove in five runs to match a career High and Bryn Smith posted his first Victory in eight starts As Montreal beat san Francisco. The expos moved into second place and remained two games behind Chicago in the East san Francisco s Lead Over Houston was trimmed to four games in the West. Craig Lefferts replaced Mike Lacoss 7-9, in the see no on Page 26 an sports radio  baseball Baltimore a Cleveland 1 30 . Wednesday