European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 30, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 a the stars and stripes wednesday May 30,1990 Yankees Don Mattingly Puckett homers twice to rally twins past of Supi Mattingly struggling by Bob Glauber new Day Chicago a the numbers Are More indicative of a weak hitting shortstop than a $3 Mil lion a year future Hall of Famer. Average .185. Home runs none. Strikeouts five. Ever since Don Mattingly was cast into the role of cleanup hitter he has put up numbers that Are decidedly in Mattingly. He entered monday night s game against the Chicago White sox Only 5 for 27, with no homers one double and one rib. The most telling stat of All however is his uncharacteristically High number of strikeouts. He has been fanned five times As a cleanup hitter bringing his total to 13 in 160 at bats. Last year he struck out 30 times in 631 at bats. Over the last week his average has plummeted from .306 to .281. A right now he a not swinging the Bat like he can a manager Bucky Dent said. A a everybody a making a big Deal of his slump since being moved to cleanup. I m not going to move my one two three or  Mattingly would not discuss his slump before monday nights game. In fact he has not said much of anything since he struck out with the bases loaded and one out in the eighth inning of sundays 6-2 loss to the Kansas City royals. By the associated press Minneapolis a Kirby Puckett a second Homer of the game a three run shot in the seventh inning boosted the Minnesota twins to a 64 Victory Over the Baltimore orioles on monday for their fifth straight Victory. Minnesota won its 19th game in May tying a club record for victories in the month set in 1965 19-12 and equated in 1970 19-7. The twins also continued their Mastery Over the orioles winning their seventh of the last nine meetings with Baltimore and 26th in the last 37 games. It was the sixth two Homer game of Puckett a career and the third by a twin this season. Puckett a Homer in the first inning was a 434-foot shot to right Center Field and tied the score 1-1. Puckett a second Homer his eighth of the season made a Winner of Juan Berenguer 4-0who entered the game in the sixth inning. Price fell to 0-2. Gene Larkin and Gary Gaetti also homered for the twins. In other games monday indians 3, Angels 0 Anaheim Calif. A Brook Jacoby a one out single in the 10th inning broke a scoreless tie and Cory Snyder followed with a two run Homer off Jim Abbott As Cleveland halted californians seven game winning Streak. Jacoby a Bloop single to right was the fourth hit off hard Luck left hander Abbott who on his next pitch allowed Snyder a fifth Homer. Doug Jones extended his major league Lead in saves with his 16th by pitching a perfect 10th inning. Abbott 2-4 had retired 25 of 26 batters and 16 in a Row before Candy Maldonado singled to Start the 10th. Pinch runner Stanley Jefferson moved to second on Sandy Alomary a bunt before scoring on Jacoby shit. Cecilio Guantt 2-2 worked one inning in Relief of Bud Black who held the Angels scoreless on six hits through eight. Royals 3, tigers 2 Kansas City to. A Bret Saberhagen 4-3 scattered nine hits for his third straight Complete game Victory and Kevin Seitzer hit a pair of doubles giving him five straight extra base hits As Kansas City equated its longest winning Streak of the season at three straight. Seitzer doubled and scored to Lead off the game. Mike Macfarlane had an rib single in the second and Macfarlane and Terry Shumpert hit consecutive doubles in the seventh. Detroit scored in the fourth on two out singles by Larry sheets Matt Nokes and Tracy Jones and in the ninth on Nokes third Homer. Loser Brian Dubois 2-3 yielded three runs and 10 hits in six innings. White sox 2, Yankees 1 Chicago a Chicago raised baseball a Best Home record to 16-6 by scoring the winning run on seventh inning singles by Scott Fletcher and Robin Ventura both of whom started the game Al Roundup hitting under .200. Eric King 4-0 held new York to three hits in eight innings. Bobby Thigpen pitched the ninth for his 15th save. Fletcher who came into the game hitting .192, opened the seventh with a single off Tim Leary 3-5. He took second on Ozzie Guillent a sacrifice went to third As Lance Johnson grounded out and scored when Ventura who began the game with a .143 average grounded a single up the Middle. Fletcher also scored Chicago a first run in the fourth on a wild pitch. Jesse Barfield homered for new Yorkus run in the fifth. Mariners 4, Brewers 3 Seattle a Pinch hitter Darnell Coles hit a two run single in the fifth inning and Seattle ended a four game losing Streak while extending Milwaukee a losing Streak to six. After being staked to a 4-0 Lead Seattle starter Erik Hanson 5-3 gave up his first Home runs of the season a Solo Homer to Dave Parker in the sixth inning and a two run shot to Paul Molitor in the seventh. Mike schooler Seattle a fourth Pitcher pitched the ninth for his 14th save. Seattle took a 2-0 Lead in the third inning against Jaime Navarro i just recalled from the minors. Harold Reynolds hit a sacrifice Fly and Alvin Davis had an rib single. Red sox 4, rangers 3 Arlington Texas a Tony Pena doubled Home the tying and winning runs with two out in the eighth inning handing the rangers their eighth straight Home loss and dropping them into last place in the Al West. Mike Greenwell doubled with one out in the eighth off Kenny Rogers the second Texas Pitcher bringing on Relief Ace Jeff Russell. After Russell 1-5 retired Tom Brunan sky on a groundnut he intentionally walked Dwight Evans. Penal a double spoiled the strategy. Jerry Reed 1-1the third of four Boston pitchers went 12a innings and got the Victory despite giving up two runs in the seventh including Gary Pettiss Solo Homer. Jeff Reardon pitched two perfect innings for his fourth save. Blue jays 1, athletics 0 Oakland Calif. A Dave Stieb pitched a three hitter and Manny Lee tripled Home the games Only run As Toronto ended Oakland a six game winning Streak and moved into first place in the Al East. Stieb 6-2struck out three and walked one in pitching his first Complete game of the season and 100th of his career. Mike Moore 4-4 lost despite pitching a six hitter. Moore is 4-13 lifetime against Toronto. With one out in the fifth John Olerud singled and took second on a wild pitch. After Greg Myers flied out Lee hit a drive to right Center that got past a diving Jose Canseco and rolled to the the Wall. Orioles Frank Robinson Robinson ump liar Minneapolis apr Baltimore manager Frank Robinson who was ejected from mondays game against Minnesota called plate Umpire Drew Coble a a liar and expects a suspension from the american league. In the eighth inning Robinson protested to Coble that twins manager Tom Kelly had left the pitching Mound after a visit and then returned before going Back to the dugout. Coble had a different interpretation which irritated Robinson after the game. A the Coble is a no Good human being a Robinson said. A the does no to like me and i done to like him. He a a liar. Ill probably get a Nice big Fine and maybe a suspension. In a sure their umpires report will be favourable to their  the twins beat the orioles 64. A i have no comment at this time a Coble said monday night in a Telephone interview. A i do plan to talk to or. Bobby Brown a president of the american league. Robinson baseball a first Black manager threatened to resign during the All Star break last season As a result of his frustrations with Al umpires. Robinson was supported by club president Larry Lucchino and general manager Roland Hemond at the time and after a meeting Robinson decided to remain. Pirates strike for five in ninth to Down dodgers by the Assn in list a proc a a a a a a a a a by the associated press Pir Isburgh a the Pittsburgh pirates know they can t always make up four run deficits in the ninth but they did monday to beat the los Angeles dodgers 6-5. 6 held to one hit in eight innings by Tim Belcher the hues comeback Victory ended the dodgers five game wining Streak in a Brush Back marred game. In a wild finish that featured the ejections of pirates manager Jim Leyland and reliever Randy Kramer i i Isburgh won when an error by right fielder Hubie Brooks allowed Don Slaught to score on Jose Linda a bases loaded single. A this will make us believe we can win any game we play a outfielder Andy Van so Vic said. A it was obviously a very emotional win for us. You know you can to do this every Day. But we now know we arc capable of doing it any  Wally Backman singled off reliever Pat Perry to Start the ninth and Jay Bell doubled. Backman scored on Perry a wild pitch and Van Slyke walked before Bobby Bonilla bounced into a run scoring Force play. Perry got Barry Bonds to pop out but Sid Bream singled to bring on Jay Howell 1-3who walked Slaught to Load the bases. Lind singled to right scoring Momjia and Pinch runner Gary red us and so Aughtna Roundup was waved Home when Brooks throw eluded Catcher Mike Scioscia. A in the five years that in be been Here this was the greatest one a said reliever Bob Kipper who pitched 2 i scoreless innings to set up Bill Landrum 1-0 for the win. A just the magnitude of it. We re in first place they be won five in a Row and we had just one nit it was  a in other games monday astros 5, cardinals 1 Houston a Bill Gullickson got his 100th National league Victory and Alex Trevino and Ken Lamiti drove in two runs each As Houston extended St. Louis losing Streak to four games. Gullickson 3-3who has won six of his last seven starts against the cardinals allowed Only Vince Coleman s run scoring single in the second. Gullickson who pitched m Japan the last two seasons allowed six hits struck out four and walked three in 6% innings. Cubs 5, giants 1 Chicago a Jerome Walton drove in three runs and Rookie Mike Harkey won his fourth straight decision As Chicago handed san Francisco in last place in the West its eighth loss in 10 games. Harkey 5-1 pitched five innings before his Rig shoulder stiffened and wound up on the 15-Day disabled list after the game. He allowed seven hits Walke none and struck out four. Les Lancaster pitched of final four innings for his first save. Expos 4, braves 1 Atlanta a Kevin Gross and injury plague starter Oil can Boyd combined on a six hitter an Mike Fitzgerald hit a two run Homer As Montreal be Atlanta in a rain interrupted game. Gross 6-3 allowed five hits in six innings of Reli it fou owing a 2-hour, 9-minute delay at the end of the third. He struck out seven and walked  9, Phillies 5 Philadelphia a san Diego blew a 5-0 Lead by Tony Gwynn singled in the go ahead run in a four re ninth inning As the padres beat Philadelphia. Mark Grant 1-0 pitched 1 a a scoreless innings aft relieving Bruce Hurst. Mets reds postponed no Vai up m9nday nights game betwee new York and Cincinnati was rained out reds manager Lou Piniella said the game would b ?break"8 Metsy four Day vist following the