European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 1, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday May 1,1990 the stars and stripes a a Page 21 sport worthy fires lakers rally by the associated press Inglewood Calif. A James worthy saved his lakers major embarrassment at Home scoring five of his 32 Points in the final 1 19 As los Angeles rallied to beat Houston 104-100 sunday. A nobody said it would be easy a worthy said after leading the lakers comeback from a 17-Point halftime deficit. Los Angeles scored the last seven Points to pull out its Victory. That extended the unbeaten Streak of Home teams in the Aba playoffs to 14 straight and gave the lakers a 2-0 Lead in their Best-of-5, opening round series. The Home court skein was later extended to 15 As Philadelphia beat Cleveland 107-i01. Phoenix then broke the Home court magic winning at Utah 105-87. The los Angeles Victory gave the team with the leagues Best regular season record some breathing room heading Hornba playoffs games tuesday and thursday at the Houston Summit where the lakers lost both of their regular season games. In the other sunday afternoon game Chicago beat Milwaukee 109-102 to take a 2-0 Lead in that series. Michael Jordan came Back from what looked like a serious spill to Lead the bulls Down the stretch. The lakers trailed 65-48 at halftime but turned it up in the second half behind a defense that held the rockets to 17 Points in the third Quarter and 18 in the fourth. A at halftime a spirited oration is not what happened a coach Pat Riley said. A halftime was about being outplayed being out rebounded and getting our tails  Riley passes red Page 25. Los Angeles still trailed 98-93 with 2 36 to go when Orlando Woolridge made two free throws to Cut the margin to three. Then Vlade Divac followed up a Woolridge miss and the lakers were see Aba on Page 26 rockets guard sleepy Floyd puts up an off balance Layup in front of los Angeles Forward James worthy during sundays Battle. Rejuvenated indians remain unbeaten in tired old Park by the associated press Cleveland a just As the City of Cleveland gears up to vote on whether to build a new Ballpark the indians seem to be getting comfortable at Creaky old Cleveland stadium. The indians remained unbeaten at Home with a 6-4 win Over the Minnesota twins on sunday. Rookie Carlos Baerga tripled in a run and scored offsetting his own shaky defense. Cleveland has won All six Home games this season and is the Only team in baseball without a Home loss. The indians have won 10 in a Row at Home since last september. The 6-0 Home Start is their Best since they won their first eight Home games in 1966. Residents of Cleveland and surrounding Cuya hoga county will vote May 8 on a proposal to tax cigarettes and alcohol to help build a stadium and Arena. A with the shortened Spring training we be been bouncing All around the place a Center fielder Mitch Webster said. A this is really our first Long Home stand. It does feel Nice to be at Home for a  Cleveland swept its three game weekend series from the twins who have lost four in a Row. The indians have won four straight Overall to move above .500 98 for the first time this season. A i done to know if we need to regroup a Minnesota manager Tom Kelly said. A we need to tighten up the ship a Little. They had no trouble getting their runners in. They would move their runners up from seconal Roundup and from  Greg Swindell 2-2 allowed four runs one of them unearned on seven hits in 5 % innings. He struck out three walked one and benefited from three Cleveland sacrifice flies. A you get a Guy on third base with less than two outs you have to get him in. That a something we Haven to done the last few years a Swindell said. Reliever Steve Olin retired four straight hitters and Doug Jones worked two scoreless innings for his sixth save in six opportunities. Jones has not allowed a run in 8% innings this year. Roy Smith 0-3 took the loss. His Era stands at 6.26. A i done to feel like in a getting banged around a Smith said. A i think the most runs in be Given up in an inning is  Al Newman doubled and Gene Larkin tripled for a 1-0 Minnesota Lead in the first but the indians tied it in their half when Webster bunted for a single stole second continued to third on Catcher Brian harpers wild throw and scored on Dion James sacrifice Fly. Baerga playing third base for the third straight Day because Brook Jacoby has the flu tripled Home Keith Hernandez and scored on Sandy Alomary a sacrifice Fly in the second making it 3-1. The twins however got an unearned run in the see Al on Page 23yanks Swap Polonia for Washington new York apr the California Angels traded outfielder Claudell Washington and minor league Pitcher Rich Monteleone to the new York Yankees for outfielder Luis Polonia on sunday. The Deal was announced shortly after the Angels beat the Yankees 4-3 to end a three game series. Washington 35, played for the Yankees from 1986-88 and then signed with the Angels As a free agent. He batted .273 with 13 Home runs and 42 Bis last season with California and was batting. 176 with one Homer and three Bis this year. Washington went 1 for 5 and drove in a run sunday against the Yankees. He is a lifetime .279 hitter in 17 seasons and has also played for Oakland Texas the Chicago White sox the new York mets and Atlanta. Polonia 25, was acquired by the Yankees last june in a Multi player Trade that sent Rickey Henderson to Oakland. Polonia batted .300 last year for new York and the athletics and was hitting .318 with three Bis. Monteleone 27, has been with californians triple a team in Edmonton this year. He went 2-2 with the Angels last season his Only major league  sports television boxing a tuesday night fights 3 . Wednesday