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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 8, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday augusts 1990 the stars and stripes Page 21 Stejr Iri i it ii i Teal a Quot. 1�?THudler lifts cardinals Over mets from wire reports Willie Mcgee threw his Glove into the stands and Rex Hudler threw his body All Over the Field. Hudler did it All for the St. Louis cardinals monday night singling doubling tripling tunning the bases w Ith abandon and making several Fine defensive plays in left Field to Power the cardinals to a 5-i Victory Over the new York mets. American league Roundup More baseball on Page 26. Quot its great to have a Job that thousands of other americans and people around the world would love to have Quot Hudler and Roundup Utility infielder by Trade said. A those Are the people i play for. Quot but one game does t make it All. You done to get Loo High or too  Mcgee looked pretty Low after dropping Ron Darlings Fly Ball in the second inning that gave new York its Only run. It was Mcgee a 16th error of the season in Center Field and he commemorated the occasion by turning his Glove into a souvenir when he returned to the dugout. A a it a not like he loaded after it Quot said cardinals manager Joe Torre. Quot i can never criticize anybody for trying hard. And he a trying As hard As he  so is Hudler and that fact in t escaping Torre either. Quot its the Way he goes about it a Torre said. Quot he busts his Tail. He a not leaving anything in the bag that a for  mets manager Bud Harrolson whose club dropped 1 games behind the Pittsburgh pirates in the no East agreed. Quot in be never seen him play like that Quot he said. A a he a a pain in the neck. He looked belter at the  he did no to look bad in the Field either making a diving grab on the warning track to Rob Gregg Jefferies of extra bases in the third. Even the turf bums from his less than Gracel us Landing did t bother Hudler. Then after committing a iwo base i 4 his a. V a a a a a a a v a Phillies Rod Booker slides past pirates Catcher Mike Zavattiere who has already made he tag in second game of a Knuhl Cheader. Error on a sinking Dave Magadan line drive in the fifth Hudler redeemed himself by throwing out Magadan at the plate As he tried to score on Kevin my Reynolds single. A i was a Little disappointed that i misjudged Magadanz a Ball a said Hudler seeing action in place of the injured Vince Coleman. A i wanted to get him  the cardinals won the final three games of the four game series from the mets and Are 4-1 under Torre. Cardinal starter Joe Magrane 7-12, walked four and struck out three. Lee Smith pitched 1 a i innings for his 19th save. Mets starter Ron Darling 4-6, took the loss. In other monday night games astros 4, giants 1 Houston a Bill Doran Isnit interested in analysing his Best hitting Streak of the season. Quot this is As comfortable As in be Felt at the plate this year. 1 Haven to put much thought into it. I just want to enjoy it and let it ride Quot Doran said after extending his Streak to a season High six games with a two run Homer that powered Houston Over san Francisco. Doran is 12 for 23 during those six games. Manager Art Howe agreed that Doran is a swinging about As Well As in be seen him in a Long time. He just missed a Home run his first Lime  Dorans Homer in the fifth inning made it 4-0 and was the icing for Bill Gullickson who pitched his first Complete game in almost three years. It was Houston s fifth straight win and dropped the second place giants five games behind Idle Cincinnati in the National league West. Gullickson 8-8who spent the last two seasons in Japan last pitched a Complete game for the new York Yankees on sept. 14. 1987. He had a shutout until Ernest riles hit his fifth Home run with one out in the ninth Houston took a 2-i Lead in the fourth. Doran and Franklin Stubbs walked and Craig Biggio and Glenn Wilson delivered Obj singles. The astros made it 4-0 in the fifth when Gullickson walked and Doran hit his fifth Home run. Wilson was ejected by. Plate Umpire Mark Hirschbuck in the sixth inning for arguing a called third strike. Pirates 10-4, Phillies 1-3 Philadelphia a Randy Tomlin came within one out of a shutout in his major league debut Bobby Bonilla had a career High five hits and Barry Bonds drove in five runs As Pittsburgh hammered Philadelphia in route to a sweep a Lwi night doubleheader. The pirates won the Nightcap less easily tying the game on Mike i Vallieres a three run Homer in the sixth inning and winning it on Sid Breames rib double in lie 10th. By sweeping while new York lost to St. Tiuis 5-1, the pirates took a 11 game Lead Over the mets in the National league East. N the opener Bonds hit two singles a three run Homer and drove in a filth run with a sacrifice Fly. Bonilla who was 5 for �5, had an rib single in the pirates two run first inning and a run scoring triple m the ninth while and Gary kens Home cd and double nigerian Breaks Burrells 100 Streak , Sweden apr Ola Pade Adenike of Nigeria snapped in Roy Burrells 12-race winning break nipping the world s top ranked sprinter in the Hio meters at the Dag Gal an meet tuesday night. Afier bumping each other three or Lour times Adenike fell Over the finishing line to win by two Lund Reths of a second. The nigerian docked a relatively slow 1010 seconds in beating the american l i the first Lime Ever. Quot i got elbowed in the Chest a few times when we were running on the line,�?T1 said Burrell who was running in the Lane next to Adenike. Quot every Lime we hit each other i lost ground Quot Raymond Stewart of Jamaica was third in in bus. Followed by Damn Council of the . In in 20 and Chidi Imoh of Nigeria in 10.23. In another event Randy Bames captured the shot put w ii a heave of 74 feet. Ii1. Inches i Lollis con a of the. United Stales leaped 7-9 n in the High jump Tor another meet record. Her american winners included Butch Reynolds in the 400 meters 4 5.03. 1 i trick dully in the 110-meter hurdles 13.73 and Lynda Tolbert in the i men s 1 to hurdles i 2.90. Perkins signs with lakers by the associated press Inglewood Calif. A Sam Perkins signed Wuh the eos Angeles lakers because he wants to finish his Aba career on top. The lakers Hope he ii help them stay there. Quot it just came Down to what i wanted and i wan led to go where in a Best suited Quot  monday at a news conference announcing his signing Wuh the lakers no terms were announced but it s he Lievi Perkins will earn As much As $3 million per season. The lakers said Only that Perkins signed a multiyear contract. Perkins 29, played six seasons for the Dallas Mavericks. Who selected him with the fourth Overall pick in the 1984 draft after he starred at North Carolina where he played with lakers Star James worthy. A 6-foot-9 a 257-Pounder. A crams averaged 1 s 9 Points and 7.5 rebounds in 76 games i or the Mavericks last season. For his career Perkins has averaged 1-1.4 Points Ami 8.0 rebounds while shooting 4 7.7 percent from the Field and 81.4 percent from the foul line. Quot this is probably my last contract in a  Perkins said Quot so i thought i would get the most out of basketball by being with an organization that has a winning tradition Ami on a level where they can be competitive. Quot i did no to want to Tail All Over with another team  was building Tor another four or five years he cause ill be old and Gray by then in the Aba sense Quot the aging process already has hit the lakers who won their ninth straight Pacific division title and led the Aba with 63 regular season wins hut Weie dumped in the second round of the playoffs by a younger Phoe Nix team. A last year was not a year in huh we showed that we re not a Good team anymore Quot said assistant general manager Milch  Quot we had an excellent a Gulai season so t he re is no reason for me to believe that we have been passed Over for Good Quot Perkins often used is a sixth Man by the Maseru is. Believes he is capable of starting with the i Akers hut remains ready emotionally Tou Uneit the Bensh the signing of pc isms is the second major move made by the lakers during the off season. Last week they traded Orlando Woolridge to the Denver nuggets for two future second round draft choices  
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