European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 12, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Ripken hits Milestone yanks win from wire reports Baltimore a playing in 1,307 consecutive major league baseball games might seem like a great accomplishment but not to Cal Ripken. �?o1 look at it As playing every Day not As a break a said the Baltimore orioles Short of sunday after reaching the Mark in a 52 loss to the new York Yankees. A a it a a desire to go out and play and tuesday june 12,19s0 the stars and stripes a a a Page 23al Roundup i m proud of it a Ripken said. A a in a proud of being relied upon every Ripken 29, tied Everett Scott for the second longest Streak of consecutive games. New York Yankee Lou Gehrig is the Leader with 2,130 games in a Row. The Milestone comes in a difficult stage of Ripkens journey through the majors. He is mired in a batting slump although he singled and walked in four at bats sunday. Jesse Barfield drove in three runs and Jimmy Jones 1-0, got the win with Relief help from Jeff Robinson Lee Guetter Man and Dave Righetti. A i brought a positive attitude with me a said Jimmy Jones 1-0, who was recalled from Columbus on saturday. Jones walked five struck out five and gave up three hits Over five innings. Barfield had a pair of doubles the first driving in two runs during a four run third inning off Jay Tibbs 2-7. Blue jays 13, Brewers 5 Milwaukee a Toronto scored 10 runs in the fourth inning the biggest outburst Ever against Milwaukee. George Bell Junior Felix and cookie Wilson each drove in two runs As the Blue jays combined seven hits four walks and an error for the second biggest inning in team history. They scored 11 against Seattle in 1984. Athletics 3, royals 2 Oakland Calif. A Bob Welch settled Down after a shaky Start to win his Yankees Mel Hall hits the dirt As he slides under the tag by orioles Catcher Mickey Tettleton. Jesse Barfield a double drove in Hall. A sixth straight decision and Oakland completed a three game sweep of Kansas City handing the royals their sixth consecutive loss. Welch 9-2 tied teammate Dave Stewart for the second highest Victory total in the league one behind Bostons Roger Clemens. Welch gave up two runs on four hits in the first inning but then shut out the royals on three hits until Dennis Eckersley relieved with two outs in the eighth for his 20th save in 20 tries. Indians 4, red sox 0 Boston a Tom Candiotti pitched five hit Ball for 8 Xhu innings As Cleveland ended a six game losing skid by ending Bostons winning Streak. Candiotti 6-3 struck out two and walked one. He was trying for his first shutout since 1987, but was pulled after a double and single in the ninth. Doug Jones retired two batters for his 19th save. Wes Gardner 0-3 was the loser. Rangers 2, Angels 1 Anaheim Calif. A Kevin Brown recovered after being hit in the head by a line drive and pitched a five hitter out dueling Mark Langston As Texas beat California. Brown 7-4 was hit in the head by Luis Polonia a liner in the third inning and the Ball chromed into right Field for a single. He stayed in the game struck out two and walked one in his first Complete game. Brown lost a bid for his first professional shutout when Dave Winfield homered with one out in the ninth. Langston 4-6 struck out a season High 12 in eight innings. White sox 5, twins 3 Minneapolis a Ivan Calderon hit a two run Homer and Chicago beat Minnesota for a three game sweep of the twins. Bobby Thipgen saved All three victories As the White sox completed their first sweep at metropolitan stadium since sept. 25-27,1979. Greg Hibbard 5-4 gave up two runs one of them earned in seven plus innings. Thigpen the fourth Chicago Pitcher worked the ninth. Tigers 4, mariners 3 Detroit a Mark Salas snapped an 0-for-19 slump with a Solo Home run that broke a sixth inning tie leading Detroit Over Seattle. Jack Morris 5-7 won his third straight decision. He gave up three runs on seven hits in six innings and Mike Henneman pitched two innings for his 15th save. Salas hit his Homer his second of the season with two outs off Brian Holman 74 for a 4-3 Lead. It was Salas fourth hit of the season and his first since May 6. Lou Whitaker also homered for the tiers. Jay Buhner hit his fourth Home run or the mariners All against lose hot padres 5v,2 behind by the associated press Houston a All of a sudden there a a race going on in the National league West. Casey Candaele snapped a seventh inning tie with a run scoring triple As Houston beat Cincinnati 4-2 on sunday to Send the slumping reds to their sixth loss in seven games. San Diego beat los Angeles 2-1 in 10 innings moving the padres within 5lh games of the first place reds. A i done to like losing six of seven but we Are fortunate we built a big Early season Lead a reds manager Lou Ninella said. A we wasted some of it but there is a lot of baseball to go. I said that a week ago when everyone was conceding the Pennant to Danny Darwin 2-1 allowed one hit in three innings 01 Relief to earn the Victory. With the score tied 2-2 in the seventh Rich ged Jan reached on a Fielding error by second baseman Manano Duncan and Eric Yelding came on As a Pinch wer. Candaele then lined a Tuple Down the right starter Jack Armstrong 8-3 to score the go ahead run. After Rob Dibble relieved Candaele scored on a Fielding error by first baseman Todd Ben Zinger on Bill Dorans grounder. Both runs were unearned. In other games sunday padres 2, dodgers 1,10 innings rank a ego a Roberto Alomar singled Home Bip in second base with one out in the 10th Nung to lift surging san Diego Over los Angeles. Oam Eadres have won five of six to move within 5 a games of Cincinnati after trailing by 10 on june 3.nl Roundup after Benito Santiago flied out to Center leading off the 10th, reliever Jay Howell 2-4 hit Roberts with a pitch. Roberts moved to second on Howells wild pitch and scored on Alomary a single to Center. Alomary a double in the eighth tied the score after Lenny Harris homered in the sixth for the dodgers. Reliever Greg Harris 4-1 pitched one inning for the Victory. Mets 8, pirates 3 new York a Darryl Strawberry busting out of a season Long slump hit his fourth Homer in three games and drove in four runs to carry new York past Pittsburgh for its third straight Victory As the race tightened in the no East. New York won three of four from first place Pittsburgh to move within 6 a games of the pirates. The mets hit the Road this week for four games each at Chicago and Pittsburgh. With Pittsburgh leading 2-0, Walt Terrell 2-5 walked Dave Magadan with one out in the fourth inning and Gregg Jefferies followed with a Bloop single to left for the Metsy first hit. Strawberry then hit his 12th Homer of the season an opposite Field drive to left. Bob Ojeda 2-3 pitched eight innings allowing nine hits and three runs for the Victory. Cardinals 5, expos 3 Montreal a Joe Magrane struggled to win for Only the third time this season and St. Louis avoided a four game sweep by beating Montreal. Magrane who was 18-9 in 1989, walked five and i allowed seven hits in 6% innings to improve to 3-8. The left hander struck out seven in route to his first Victory since beating Cincinnati on May 20. Bryn Smith another struggling St. Louis starter got one out in the seventh and Lee Smith pitched the final two innings for his sixth save. Pedro Guerrero had three hits including two doubles and Denny Walling added two Bis for St. Louis. Giants 9, braves 3 Atlanta a Matt Williams drove in four runs with a three run Homer and a single powering san Francisco past Atlanta. It was the eighth Victory in nine games for the resurgent giants who gave Rookie John Burkett 6-1 a 4-0 Ead in the first inning. Burkett who retired 10 in a Row during one stretch allowed five hits struck out seven and walked pne in eight innings. Jeff Brantley retired the Side in the ninth. Cubs 7, Phillies 3 Chicago a Joe Girardi hit his first Home run in 145 at bats this season As Chicago won its third straight game at Home for the first time this year beating Philadelphia. The cubs had not won three straight at Home since last sept. 21-24 in route to the division championship. It was another Good Day for Len Dykstra though. Dykstra extended his hitting Streak to 23 games with a fourth inning rib single. He trails Chuck Klein by three games for the longest hitting Streak in Phillies history since 1900. Dykstra finished the game 2-for-5 and is batting .407. During the Streak he is 42-for-98 429. With men in scoring position he is hitting .478 22-for-46
