European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 1, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 26 a a a the stars and stripes Friday june 1,1990baseball round pay a use quirk to perfection by the associated press Oakland Calif. A the Toronto Blue jays spent three Days keeping Jose Canseco Rickey Henderson and Mark Mcgwire in Check in two straight wins Over Oakland. Like everyone else they did no to worry about Jamie quirk. A you can to shut everybody Down a said Toronto starter Willie Blair after quirk drove in two runs with a double and triple in Only his american league second Start of the season to Lead the a a Over the Blue jays 8-5 wednesday. The loss ended Toronto a five game winning Streak. The Blue Jay pitchers knew enough about Henderson Canseco and Mcgwire to hold them to five hits in a combined 36 at bats in three games. Quirk gave Oakland a 1-0 Lead with an rib triple in inc first and snapped a 5-5 tie in the a a four run fifth inning with a run scoring double. He flied out to the right Field Fence in the fourth inning and struck out in his fourth and final at Bat. In other games on wednesday White sox 5, Yankees 2 Chicago a Scott Fletcher hit a three run Homer and Sammy Sosa added a Solo shot As Chicago won its fifth straight and new York lost its fifth in a Row. Twins 12, orioles 3 Minneapolis a Fred Manrique and Brian Harper drove in three runs apiece and Gene Larkin kept his hot Bat going with three hits and three runs scored As Minnesota beat Baltimore. Royals 4, tigers 3 Kansas City to. A Kansas City a bullpen and defense held Oil Detroit for its fifth straight win. Kansas City starter storm Davis left with two outs in the fourth with a bruised knuckle after stopping Cecil fielders hard grounder. Luis Aquino 1-0 pitched 2 a scoreless innings and Steve Crawford worked two shutout innings As the royals turned four double plays. See Al on Page 27 bucs win 5th straight by the associated press Pittsburgh a a big drop in the batting order has translated into a big jump in Barry Bonds statistics. Bonds had a two run Homer and three Bis and Sid Bream was 3 for 4 with a Solo shot As the Pittsburgh pirates beat the los Angeles dodgers 5-3 wednesday for their fifth consecutive Victory. Batting fifth in the order Bonds had a two run Homer in the first following two dodger errors and added an rib groundnut in the third giving him 37 Bis in 148 at bats. He he had 58 Bis in 580 at bats last year mostly As a Lead off hitter. Bonds has never had More than 59 Bis in a season despite hitting As Many As 25 homers. Walt Terrell 2-4 ended his three game losing Streak by allowing three runs and five hits Over 6 a innings As the pirates who had 14 hits swept the three game series. Bill Landrum the fourth Pittsburgh Pitcher worked the final inning for his seventh save giving the pirates their 13th Victory in their last 15 Home games. The pirates won despite one of the most miserable afternoons of Gold Glove outfielder Andy Barry Bonds Van Slykes career. He committed two errors in the dodgers two run fourth inning was picked off base twice and missed a grand slam in the eighth when Stan Javier ran Down his Long drive to Center. A a it a not much fun making a fool of yourself in front of 30,000 people for nine innings a said Van Slyke. A do i remember having two errors in an inning before i done to remember two errors in a month before. A actually i made four errors in six innings once in triple a. It was May 23, 1983, the Day after i got married. The manager came out in the sixth and told the Pitcher if you can to keep them from hitting the Ball to third in be got to get you out of there. I was waiting to see my new Bride after the game and she took a cab Home in other games on wednesday giants 4, cubs 1 Chicago a Rookie John Burkett pitched seven scoreless innings and had his first major league hit and rib and Matt Williams hit a two run Homer for san National league Francisco. Burkett 4-1 blanked the cubs until Ryne Sandberg led off the eighth with his 10th Homer. Burkett gave up five hits and was taken put after eight innings for a Pinch hitter. Steve Bedrosian got his seventh save. Expos 9, braves 6 Atlanta a Tim Wallach drove in four runs with a Homer and two doubles As Montreal overcame pitching injuries to beat Atlanta for its third straight Victory. Wallachy a 11th Homer in the fourth inning left the expos with a 3-1 deficit. But Montreal batted around in a five run fifth to Chase Tom Glavine 2-3 and win for the seventh time in 10 games. Atlanta lost for the fifth time in seven games. Dennis Martinez Montreal a scheduled starter reported a stiff neck while wanning up and was replaced by Bill Sampen. Reliever Dave Schmidt 1-0who allowed three hits in 22a innings in Relief of Sampen left in the seventh after one of Ron Gantus three hits chromed off his leg. Relief Ace Tim Burke left the game after injuring his right ankle covering first base in the ninth. Drew Hall the fifth Montreal Pitcher got the last out for his second save. Dave Martinez started the fifth inning rally with his first Homer. Gant and Dave Justice had homers and two Bis apiece for Atlanta. Padres 8, Phillies 3 Philadelphia a Bip Roberts Tony Gwynn Mike Pagliarulo and Joe Carter drove in two runs each As surging san Diego beat slumping Philadelphia. Rookie first baseman Jerald Clark had the first four hit game of his career As the padres collected 13 against Bruce Ruffin 3-5 and three relievers. The padres put the game away when they sent 11 men to the plate and scored five runs to Lead 6-0 in the fourth. The beneficiary was Andy Benes 5-4who allowed seven hits and three walks in 6 a innings. Greg Harris got his second save. Astros 2, cardinals 1 Houston a Glenn Wilson extended his hitting Streak to six games with an eighth inning single that scored Ken Caminiti As resurgent Houston beat skidding St. Louis. The astros won for the sixth time in nine games after ending a 2-14 skid and won their third consecutive series. The cardinals last in the National league East lost for the fifth time in six games. Caminiti doubled to the left Field Wall off Joe Magrane 2-8 with one out and Slid Home safely after second baseman Jose Oquendo slapped Down Wilson shit. Robinson to Appeal 3-game suspension Minneapolis apr Baltimore orioles manager Frank Robinson is looking Forward to telling his Side of the Story after he was suspended for three games wednesday for abusing american league Umpire Drew Coble. Robinson said he will Appeal the suspension. The hearing before Al president Bobby Brown was set for thursday meaning Robinsons status Wasny to affected for wednesday nights Baltimore Minnesota game. Coble Umpire at second base in the 12-3 twins Victory. A i want to have my say. I want to see what everyone has to say. Ill save my comments for the league president a Robinson said wednesday. Robinson who once threatened to quit because he said umpires were harassing his players called Coble a a a liar and a a no Good human being after an argument that resulted in his ejection from monday s orioles twins game. Robinson has also accused Coble of being prejudiced. Coble said Robinson should be ashamed of himself for making such an accusation. Brown said the suspension was for a physical Contact with inc Umpire use of abusive language delay of the game and inappropriate Post game remarks to the Robinson said Coble initiated the Contact. Asked if he regretted either arguing with Coble or calling him names afterwards Robinson said Coble was Home plate Umpire Mon Day when in the eighth inning twins manager Tom Kelly replaced Pitcher Juan Berenguer with Terry Leach. Kelly finished speaking with Leach took a few Steps toward the dugout stopped turned around and again conferred briefly with Leach before leaving the Field. Robinson already angered about a called third strike against Mickey Tettle ton earlier in the inning argued that Kelly should have been charged with a second trip to the Mound and that Leach should have been removed. Robinson became irate when Coble told him that it be considered a trip because Kelly had t crossed the foul line before returning to the Mound. He said a in the american league of have to Cross the line a like i done to now the rules in the american league a Robinson said. Actually Rule 8.06 states a a manager is considered to have concluded his visit to the Mound when he leaves the 18-foot Circle surrounding the pitchers but Kelly did no to appear to go that far away from Leach. Far More than Kelly a actions Robinson was upset about Coblens response. A it was the arrogance of it a Robinson said. A this tone his he said he and Coble Are like a Oil and water a that the Umpire a does no to like me and i done to like Robinson threatened to quit before the All Star break last year because he said he was frustrated by umpires. K Frank Robinson is held Back by Jim Evans after Drew Coble ejected him monday. A
