European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 9, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 a a a the stars and stripes wednesday May 9,1990baseball Roundup unbeaten Viola masters astros by the associated press new York a unbeaten Frank Viola became the National leagues first six game Winner As the new York mets beat the Houston astros 7-1 monday night. Viola joined Oakland a Dave Stewart As the Only six game winners in the majors. The left hander allowed one run and eight hits in 6 a innings. He has allowed five earned runs in 42% innings. Houston a run came in the seventh inning and snapped violas scoreless Streak of 20 innings. Wally Whitehurst allowed one hit in 2 % innings for his first save. Center fielder Daryl Boston claimed from the Chicago White sox on waivers april 30, drove in three runs with three hits including his first Homer with the mets. In other games on monday expos 7, giants 6 Montreal a Andres Galarraga broke out of a 1-for-16 slump with a three run Homer in the sixth inning and a game winning double in the ninth. It was san Francisco a fifth loss in its last six games. Pirates 4, padres 1 Pittsburgh a Barry Bonds Homer and two san Diego mistakes helped Pittsburgh score four runs in the first inning As the pirates got their ninth Victory in 11 games. Bob walk 2-3 allowed five hits Over six innings for his second straight win Over san Diego. Bonds homered As the Lead off hitter in the first for the 20th time in his five year career. Reds 3, cardinals 0 St. Louis a Tom Browning pitched a three hitter and Paul of Neill broke up a scoreless game with an rib single i National league the sixth inning As the Cincinnati reds won their fifth straight. It was the fifth straight loss for the cardinals who were swept in a four game series at Home by Cincinnati for the first time since 1966. The reds out scored the cardinals 20-6 in the four games. Little used Reserve Luis Quinones added a two run double in the sixth for the reds who improved their major league Best record to 18-5. Browning 3-2who threw the first perfect game in reds history in 1988, retired the first 10 batters before Rex Hudler singled to left in the fourth. He also gave up singles to Jose Oquendo in the eighth and Pinch hitter Tom Pagnozzi in the ninth. The Only other Cardinal to reach base was Pedro Guerrero who was walked intentionally in the fourth. Loser Jose Deleon 2-2 went six innings giving up three runs on seven hits. Braves 9, cubs 8 Chicago a Jeff Blauser a second Homer of the game a two run shot in the ninth inning lifted the braves to Victory. With the braves trailing 8-7, Mark Lemke led off the Atlanta ninth with a walk. Blauser who entered the game without a Home run this season then homered to left off Mitch Williams 0-2 to put the braves ahead. Charlie Kerfeld 2-2 got the Victory pitching 1 % innings in Relief. Joe Boever got the last three outs for his third save. The cubs took an 8-7 Lead in the seventh when Mark Grace raced Home from third on Shawon Dunston a one out grounder. Kerfeld ran to first to get the out on Dunston instead of throwing to the plate even though it appeared he had a Chance to get Grace at Home. Frank Viola joins Dave Stewart of Oakland As Only six game winners in the majors. Grubert a Homer Powers jays past Chison a. 1 a a _ j n a a a a by the associated press Toronto a Kelly Gruber hit his 10th Home run and Dave Stieb improved to 19-4 lifetime against Chicago leading the Toronto Blue jays past the White sox 6-1 monday night. Stieb 5-1 allowed seven hits and one run in 7% innings. Duane Ward finished. Grubert a Homer his third in two Days scored Tony Fernandez from third to snap a 1-1 tie in the fifth against Jack Mcdowell 1-2. Gruber who has 25 Bis has hit All his homers this season at the sky dome. His 10 homers is second in the major leagues to Cecil fielders 11 for Detroit. John Olerud gave the Blue jays a 5-1 Lead in the sixth with a two run Homer off Wayne Edwards. In mondays other games american league Brewers 5, tigers 4 Milwaukee a . Surhoff hit a three run Homer in the fifth inning As Milwaukee overcame fielders fourth Home run in two games to beat Detroit. Sur Hofts second Homer of the season followed a walk to Dale Sveum and single by Paul Molitor off Jack Morris 2-4. Morris 0-5 against the Brewers the last two seasons walked seven and gave up four hits. He Hasni to beaten Milwaukee since june 1987. Fielders 11th Homer gave the tigers a 1-0 Lead in the fourth off Mark Knudson. Fielder who played in Japan last season hit three homers on sunday in to Ronto and has four homers and nine Bis against the Brewers this season. Fielder also singled in a run in the eighth and leads the major leagues with 27 Bis. Royals 4, indians 2,11 innings Cleveland a to Jackson singled Home the tie breaking run in the 11th inning monday night As Kansas City Defeated Cleveland for its second straight extra inning Victory. Jeff Montgomery 2-1 got the win after the royals Sloppy defense in the ninth inning Cost him a save. Montgomery pitched four witless innings striking out three and allowing one unearned run. Mark Davis pitched a perfect 11th for his fifth save. Kurt Stillwell started the 11th with a single off Ceci Lio Guante 0-2. George Brett walked and Jackson see Al on Page 2�?o terrible baseball giving royals a shabby look a. A Mir to imn. / by Doug Tucker Kansas City to. Apr Frank Funk pitching coach for the Kansas City royals had this faraway look in his eyes. And then he spoke. A How deep a he asked a is this pit a after mondays rare win against Cleveland the pit measured 8 by 16. As in eight victories 16 losses and the worst record in the major leagues. The royals expected to Challenge the Oakland athletics in the american league West with the addition of no by Young award Winner Mark Davis Are playing on a Par with the Atlanta braves and Detroit tigers. The not so royals rank near the Bottom of most pitching and hitting statistics. Bret Saberhagen last years Al by Young Winner is 1-3, while Davis who had 44 saves with san Diego last year has a 7.71 earned run average after blowing his third save in seven chances. It s embarrassing considering what everybody expected of us a royals general manager John Schuer Holz said. A a it a  the royals won 92 games in 1989. Only the a a and Chicago cubs won More. Then they plunged into the free agent Market signing Mark Davis and storm Davis a 19-Gamc Winner with the a a in �?T89. A your goal is to win 100 games a Schuerholz said As Spring training ended. The boast sounded reasonable. But after 23 games the a is would need t0 8� 93-46, a .670 clip to reach 100 wins. A this is the same team absent Danny Tartabull that All of us fans organization and Media alike spoke so highly of this Winter a Schuerholz said. A it Hasni to changed at All. Its playing poorly. But its still the same cast of characters. Until i feel differently in a going to say these Guys have the ability to  there is no secret to the royals problems. A a we a just played terrible baseball a Saberhagen said. A Spur and simple terrible  a a we re the second worst team Era in the league and we re near the Bottom in runs scored a Schuerholz said. A a we be been brutal in game situations with me in scoring position. We be not pitched we be not i we be not played. Its not just one or two  manager John Wathan says the pitching staff a him worried. A the most puzzling thing is our pitching a Watha said. A you keep thinking it might come around but the comes a time when you can to wait any  the royals team Era is 4.68, ahead of Only the t Gers. The royals have scored 87 runs while giving up 11 the team batting average is .262, but they have Only set Home runs a seven players with one each