European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 24, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday september 24,1989 the stars and stripes Page 21 sports cubs cards win by the associated press Chicago Mark Grace drove in two runs with two singles and Rick Wron Adrove in another run with a sacrifice Fly Friday leading the Chicago cubs to a 4-2 Victory Over the Pittsburgh pirates. Ii was the second straight Victory for the no East leading cubs who stayed four Rel Roundup games ahead of the St. Louis cardinals who Defeated the Philadelphia Phillies 2-1. Right hander Mike Bielecki. 17-7, gave up eight hits and needed help in the seventh from Paul Assn Machor. Mitch Williams got the final two outs for his 35th save. In other games Friday cardinals 2, Phillies 1,10 innings St. Louis Pinch hitter Denny Walling s bases loaded loth inning sin Gle gave St. Louis a Victory Over Phila Delphia. John Cost cello 5-3, the third St. Louis Pitcher worked a perfect both As the cardinals won for the fifth time in six games. Van cd Coltman reached on a fielder s Choice with two outs in the 10th off loser Roger Mcdowell 4-8, and went to third on Ozzie Smith s single. After Smith went to second uncontested for a fielder s Choice. Jose Oquindo was walked intentionally to Load the bases. Walling Hilling .355 in 31 Al Bals As a Pinch hit Ter then singled to left Center Field to score Coltman. The cubs Marvel Wynne slides into second base avoiding the Tau of Pittsburgh s Jay Bell in the first inning of Friday s game. Mels 3, expos 2 new York Mark Carrion snapped a seventh inning lie with his fourth Pinch Homer of the season As new York beat Montreal and kept its faint Hopes alive inthe National league East race. The mets remained 5 h games behind first place Chicago in the no East. The loss eliminated Montreal from the no East Pennant race. Astros 3, giants 1 san Francisco Mark Portugal won his seventh straight decision and third without a loss Over san Francisco As Houston Defeated the giants an snapped Pitcher Scott Garrelts eight game winning Streak. Despite the loss the giants reduced their magic number to win the National league West to four As second place san Diego lost 2-1 in los Angeles. The third place astros pulled to within six games. Dodgers 2, padres 1los Angeles Tim Belcher pitched a three hitter for his sixth straight Victory and Jose Gonzalez hit Atie breaking Homer As los Angeles put another crimp in san Diego s Pennant Hopes and ended the padres four game winning , 14-12, struck out five walked three and retired 20 of the last 23 batters in route to his ninth Complete game and Only his second without the Benefit of a shutout. The right hander has t lost since aug. 15 and has yielded Only nine earned runs in his last seven starts for a 1.46 earned run  padres Benilo Santiago tied the game la with one out in tic fifth inning hitting a Solo Homer to Center Field on the first pitch for his 15th of the season and the 20th surrendered this year by  defending batting Champion Tony Gwynn running Nick and neck with san Francisco s will Clark for the no Bat Ling Crown went o-for-4 and saw his aver age drop three Points to .334. Gwynn is now three Points behind Clark who bruised his left knee in a Home plate Colli Sion with dodger Catcher Mike Scioscia thursday night in san Francisco and sat out Friday night s game against Houston. Reds 8, braves 3 Atlanta Ron Robinson allowed Only four hits before leaving in the seventh inning and Eric Davis hit a two run Homer to Lead Cincinnati Over Atlanta. Orioles lose As Blue jays win by the associated press Baltimore Mel Hall ended Ano-for-16 slump with new York s third Solo Home run of the game snapping a 4 4 tic in the sixth inning Friday night and giving the Yankees a 5-4 Victor Over the Baltimore orioles. Baltimore fell two games behind to Ronto in the american league East when the Blue jays beat Milwaukee 7-3. The Yankees took a 4-0 Lead against Dave Johnson who lasted Only three innings. Steve Balboni and Randy Velarde homered in the second inning. In the third Steve sax singled and scored on a double by Alvaro Espinoza who took third on the throw Home and scored on a sacrifice Fly by Don Matingly. Walt Terrell scattered six hits in seven innings for the Yankees. In other games Friday Blue jays 7, Brewers 3 Milwaukee Manny Lee Lloyd Mosby and Moosic Wilson hit rib sin Gles in Toronto s four run fourth  loss dropped the Brewers 7 i games out of first place in the american league East and they would be eliminated if they lost to Toronto on saturday. Dave stick 16-8, yielded one run and seven hits in seven innings and beat Mil at Roundup Waukee for the third time this season. The Blue jays tagged Milwaukee starter Jerry Russ for five runs and nine hits in 3 a innings. With the score tied 1-1, Kelly Gruber s bad hop single started the Toronto fourth and an infield hit by Tony per Zandez and a single by Pat Borders loaded the bases. Lee got one of his three rib singles to give Toronto a 2-1 Lead but Fernandez was thrown out at the plate by left fielder Mike Felder. However an error by third baseman Gary Sheffield on Glen Allan Hill s grounder reloaded the bases and mos by s rib single chased Russ. Wilson greeted Jeff Paterck with a sin Gle thai made it 4-1 and the final run of the inning scored on George Bell s grounder. Athletics 5,twins 2 Minneapolis Dave Stewart s 100th career Victory made him the Only Pitcher of the 1980s with three straight 20-win seasons As Oakland increased its Al West Lead to four games Over rained Oul California. Stewart 20-9, allowed six hits and both Minnesota runs in seven innings in joining Kansas City s Bret Sabur Hagen and hous ton s Mike Scott As the major leagues Only 20-game winners this season. It was Stewart s fourth try at no. 20. In the right hander s previous two out Ings Dennis Eckersley blew ninth inning leads. This time Gene Nelson pitched iwo perfect innings for his third save. Royals 9-0, mariners 2-2 Kansas City. To. Bill Swift and two relievers combined on a two hitters Seattle split a twi night double header and dealt the royals slim Pennant Hopes another blow. The third place royals who fell 5 i games behind Oakland in the Al West took the opener As Bret Sabur Hagen yielded three hits in seven scoreless innings and became the first Pitcher in the majors with 21 victories. Sabur Hagen has won nine straight. Red sox 9, tigers 7 Detroit John Marzano whose passed Ball allowed Detroit to tie the score in the eighth inning drove in the winning run with a sacrifice Fly in the ninth. In win Ning for the sixth time in their last seven games the red sox erased a 6-0 deficit with three runs in the sixth inning and four in the seventh. Dwight Evans tied the score with a three run double and scored on Danny help s single. While sox 9, rangers 6 Arlington Texas Chicago scored three runs in the ninth 10 beat Texas. Scott Fletcher and Ivan Calderon began the tic breaking rally with singles off Cicilio guano. Jeff Russell relieved and Carlton Fisk bunted into a Force at third but Carlos Martinez doubled to score Calderon. Pinch Hilter Steve Lyons added a rib single and Robin Ventura hit a sacrifice Fly. The rangers tied the game 6-6 in the eighth on Pelc Incaviglia s Lead off Homer off Donn pall. It was Incaviglia s 20th Homer making him the first Ranger to hit 20 or More homers in four straight seasons. Rain in Clevelan Cleveland Friday s scheduled game Between the California Angels an Cleveland indians was rained out. An sports television pro football los Angeles raiders Al Denver 9 .  pro football Buffalo at Houston 6 . Sunday. Baseball Houston Al san Francisco 9 . Sunday