European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 5, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 26 the stars and stripes saturday May 5,1990twins beat tigers 3-1 for sweep by the associated press Detroit a Gary Gaetti s two run Homer in the 10th inning thursday gave the Minnesota twins a 3-1 Victory Over the Detroit tigers and a sweep of their three game series. Kirby Puckett started the inning with a walk Gaetti who had a pair of three run homers wednesday night hit an 0-1 pitch Over the left Field Wall for his fourth Homer of the season. A i did no to hit the Ball All that Well a Gaetti said. A a in a not even sure that s a Home run. Maybe in Boston but not the tigers have lost five straight games and Are last in the american league East with an 8-15 record a a Roundup same As last year after 23 games when they finished with a major league High 103 losses. Terry Leach 2-0 pitched a scoreless ninth inning for the win. Rick Aguilera pitched the 10th for his fifth save. A it was a breaking pitch a Slider right Down the Middle a Pitcher Mike Henneman said. A it just Hung right there. It was an easy pitch to hit. It was right there and he a a mistake in other games thursday indians 10, Yankees 5 new York a third baseman Mike blowers made four errors lying an american league record and leading to seven unearned runs. Blowers made two errors in the seventh one in the eighth and one in the ninth to tie the league Mark for third basemen shared by 20 players. The last Al third baseman to Commil four errors in a game was Baltimore s Floyd Rayford in 1986. The modern major league record for errors by a third baseman is five by Bostons David brain in 1906. As a result of blowers errors the indians scored four unearned runs in the seventh one in the eighth and two in the ninth to hand the Yankees their fifth straight loss. Mariners 10, Angels 8 Seattle a Jeffrey Leonard hit two Home runs and drove in five runs As Seattle overcame a 4-0 deficit to beat California. Leonard a three run shot in the fourth inning capped a seven run rally on just two hits off Chuck Finley 32 and Scott Bailes. Trailing 6-3, the mariners started the rally with walks to Pete of Brien and Darnell Coles and an rib single by Dave Valle. Finley a wild throw to first base on Mike Brumley a bunt scored two runs and tied the game. After Harold Reynolds sacrificed an error by shortstop Donnie Hill on Henry Cottons grounder put Seattle ahead. Ken Griffey or. Walked before Leonard hit his Home run marking the seventh time in his career he had two Minnesota s Al Newman Falls after being hit by a pitch thrown by Detroit a Mike Henneman in the ninth inning. A Home runs in a game. Brent knackert 1-0at 20 the youngest Pitcher in the majors got the win but needed Relief from Mike schooler who got the last four outs for his sixth save. Brewers 9, royals 5 Kansas City to. A Robin Younts three run inside the Park Homer carried Milwaukee past Kansas City and plunged the royals to 6-14, the worst record in the major leagues. After a rain delay of 99 minutes the Brewers jumped on Mark Gubicza 1-4 for one run in the first inning and three in the second. Yount who has six of the 12 inside the Park homers in Brewers history made it 7-2 in the fourth and chased Gubicza. In victories Over Kansas City aces Gubicza and Bret Saberhagen this series the Brewers had 24 hits and four Home runs in 9% innings. Rain in Chicago Chicago a thursdays game Between the Texas rangers and the White sox was rained out. The game will be made up As part of a twi night doubleheader on aug. 10.reds shut out error plagued mets 5-0 by the associated press new York a the Cincinnati reds beat the error prone new York mets 5-0 thursday night As Jack Armstrong allowed four hits in l2h innings to win his fifth game and Joe Oliver hit two Home runs. Armstrong 5-0 joined Frank Viola and Dave Stewart As the Only five game winners in the major leagues. Viola shut out the reds for new York on wednesday. Howard Johnson made three errors and the reds stole five bases including four in the eighth inning. Sid Fernandez 1-3 and Armstrong breezed through the first four innings until the Metsy defense got them in trouble again. Johnson playing out of position at shortstop bobbled Rolando Roomes one out grounder for an error in the fifth and Oliver followed with his first Home run. Oliver led off the ninth with a Homer. In the eighth Chris Sabo led off with a walk against Alejandro Pena stole second and third and scored when Johnson made a two base error on Barry Larking a grounder with the infield in. Larkin stole third and Billy Hatcher followed with an infield single. In other games no Roundup astros 10, Phillies 3 Philadelphia a Bill Gullickson Back after two seasons in Japan pitched a Strong game and Ken Caminiti drove in three runs As Houston cooled off Philadelphia. The Phillies who got 20 hits in winning 14-4 wednesday night were limited to six by Gullickson 21 in 7 i innings. He struck out four walked three and never trailed after Caminiti hit a two run single off Terry Mulholland 1 -1 in the first inning. Philadelphia scored in the first on an rib double by von Hayes and in the eighth when carmelo Martinez hit his third Home run. Dave Smith the third Houston Pitcher worked the final 1 % innings for his eighth save. The astros put the game out of reach with a six run ninth against Jeff Parrett and Chuck Mcelroy. Glenn Wilson had two hits in the inning including a two run single. Biggio Davis and Caminiti had rib singles and Ramirez a run scoring grounder. Len Dykstra went 4 for 4 for the Phillies and scored two runs. Braves 4, expos 1montreal a Tom Glavine allowed one hit in seven innings and Atlanta scored three times in the ninth to win its fifth straight game defeating slumping Montreal. The braves winning Streak is their longest since they won seven straight last May. Montreal Lias lost five of its last seven. With the score tied 1-1, Andres Thomas greeted reliever Drew Hall 2-3 with a single to Start the Atlanta ninth. After moving to second on Mark Wernke s sacrifice Thomas scored on Greg Olson a double to right Center. Jeff Treadway followed with a single against Steve Frey who relieved Hall to score Olson before pj11� hitter Lonnie Smiths rib single against Tim Burke scored Oddie Mcdowell. The Only hit Glavine allowed was a bunt single by Otis Nixon in the third. Glavine then loaded the bases by walking Junior Noboa and Tim Raines Belore striking out Tim Wallach to end the threat. The Victory went to Charley Kerfeld while Joe Boever picked up his second save
