European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 21, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26the stars and stripes tuesday August 211990 Al from Page 21 for the orioles who had not beaten Oakland at Home since june 18 1989. Telford called up from class a a Hagerstown on saturday had a no hitter for 42/j innings before Terry Steinbach singled. The 24-year-old right hander walked four and did not allow a runner past first base. Curt Schilling and Gregg Olson each pitched Ari inning in Relief with Olson get Ting his 28th save after giving up a two run Homer in the ninth to Mark Mcgwire. It was the first Homer Olson has Given up at memorial stadium in i slow year career. Scott Sanderson 12-8 was the loser for the athletics. Blue jays 9, twins 1 Minneapolis a Moosic Wilson a two Irun double and two Minnesota errors fuelled a six run seventh inning lifting Toronto Over the twins behind David Wells Strong pitching. Wilson also contributed a two run triple in a three run eighth As the Blue jays completed a sweep of their three game  9-3, gave up five hits in eight innings struck out five and walked two. Yankees 3, mariners 1 new York a right hander Tim Leary gave new York seven Strong innings and Bob Geren hit a two run Homer As the Yankees completed their first Home sweep of the season by beating Seattle. Leary 6-16 gave up one run on six hits in winning for the first time in 10 starts at Yankee stadium this season Brewers 7, royals 2 Milwaukee a Darryl Hamilton singled twice stole two bases and scored two runs to support the three hit pitching of Mark Knudson As Milwaukee Defeated Kansas City. Knudson struck out five and walked one boosting his record to 9-6 with his fourth Complete game. George Brett had two of Kansas City s hits and drove in both runs one with his 10th Homer. White sox 4, rangers 2 Arlington Texas a Ron Karko vice knocked in two runs and Bobby Thigpen recorded his major Icagic Reading 40th save As Chicago beat Texas. Wayne Edwards a Rookie evened his record at 2-2, with both wins coming against the rangers in the past nine Days. A Minnesota s Herschel Walker runs past Cleveland a Thane Gash for a touchdown after catching a pass in the Vikings 23-20 win. Vikings rally past Browns a Cleveland apr Rich Gannon took Minnesota 73 Yards in 14 plays capped by Allen Rice s 11-Yard touchdown run in the fourth Quarter As the Vikings beat the Cleveland Browns 23-20 in sundays Only nil exhibition game. The drive included an 18-Yard scramble by Gannon on a third-and-20 play. He followed that with a 5-Yard pass to Andy Schillingjr for a fourth Down conversion and Rice scored on the next play a draw up the Middle. The touchdown came on Gannony a first series of plays and was the Vikings Only second half score. Gannony a efficient performance sunday 6-for-10 for 51 Yards plus three scrambles for 35 Yards a was a marked contrast to that of Sean Salisbury a free agent trying to beat him out of a Job. Salisbury playing the third Quarter was 2-for-s for 15 Yards with one interception and two sacks. The Vikings led 16-7 at the half behind two touchdown passes by starter Wade Wilson. Wilson threw a 17-Yard swing pass to Herschel Walker for the games first touchdown in the second Quarter and a 25-Yard to pass to Ira Hillary later in the second Quarter. The Vikings also scored a safety when Henry Thomas sacked Bemie Kosar in the end zone. A although it might not appear like it i think we got better a a said Kosar who was 6-for-12 for 51 Yards with one interception. Cleveland 1-2 is installing an entirely new offence this year under new offensive coordinator Jim Shofner. The Browns whose Only first half score came on Kevin Macks i Yard plunge came Back to Lead with 13 straight Points in the second half. Jerry Kauric trying to unseat Veteran place kicker Matt Bahr made third Quarter Field goals of 42 and 30 Yards giving him six straight this preseason. Backup quarterback Mike Page then threw an unusual 20-Yard touchdown pass to Vernon joins that first bounced in and out of the hands of teammate Scott Galbraith giving Cleveland a Short lived 20-16  from Page 21 Liard a sacrifice and came around on Andy Van Slykes Sharp single to right. Mets 10, giants 9 san Francisco a Kevin Mcreynolds homered twice and drove in six runs to break a Long slump As new York despite another poor Outing from Dwight Gooden held on to beat san  13-6 pitched 5 a innings allowing six runs seven hits and five walks. After being staked to a 10-2 Lead in the sixth he gave up a grand slam to Pinch hitter Ernest riles As the giants rallied. Kevin Mitchell homered leading off the ninth to pull the giants within a run but John Franco got Jose Uribe to hit into a double play with runners at first and third. Expos 2, dodgers 1 los Angeles a Pine hitter Mike Aldrete singled Home the winning run with two outs in the ninth inning As Montreal beat los Angeles spoiling the spectacular debut of shortstop Jose of ennui. Offerman homeless in 450 at bats this season with triple a Albuquerque of the Pacific coast league led Oil the first inning against 14-year Veteran Dennis Marline and drove a two strike pitch Over the 385-foot Mark in right Center Field. He is the first dodger to Horner in his first career Ai Bat since Dan Bankhead on aug. 26, 1947. Dennis Martinez got Tough after that though and gave up seven hits  innings in his Duel with Ramon Martinez 15-6. Cubs 5, braves 4 Chicago a Hector Villanuevas two run Pinch Homer with two outs in the eighth lifted Chicago past Atlanta. With one out in the eighth Luis Salazar singled and was forced at second by Shaw on Dunston. Villanueva batting for Dave Clark followed with his seventh Home run off reliever Kent Mercker 4-3. Winner Greg Maddux 11-10 gave up 11 hits and four runs in eight innings before Paul Assenmacher got the final three outs for his fifth save. Cardinals 7, astros 3 St. Louis a Denny Walling playing first base in place of the injured Pedro Guerrero hit a two run Homer against his former club and Jose Deleon won his first game in More than two months As St. Louis Defeated Houston. Deleon who had not won a game since june 17, snapped a personal seven game losing Streak. Phillies 3, padres 2 san Diego a Sil cd anti Usano a two run Pinch single in the seventh inning rallied Philadelphia past san Diego. The padres helped the Phillies with two errors in the seventh including one by starter Dennis Rasmussen 8-12. Reliever Joe Hoover 2-3 got the Victory and Roger Mcdowell pitched id innings for his 17th save. Martin bests Earnhardt in taking Champion 400 i Brooklyn Mich. Apr what do of do when you have the Best car and a in Lead with 25 laps to go Mark Martin had his manager talk to him to keep his mind off what could happen to spoil a perfect Day. Winning a Battle with Dale Earnhardt in his season Long War for the Winston cup title Martin listened closely to team manager Steve Hmiel to record an easy Victory in sundays Champion spark plug 400 at Michigan International Speedway. A i asked Steve to talk to me every Lap there at the end a Martin explained. A the told me my splits Lap times How Many laps to go and anything else he could think of. 1 guess it was a Little overkill but it kept me from getting too worked  whatever Hmiel said it was Good enough to help Martin drive his Jack Roush prepared Ford thunderbird across the finish line 1.7 seconds ahead of the Chevrolet Lumina of Greg sacks. But the margin of Victory does not nearly Tell the Story of Martins Strong showing in his third career Winston cup Victory and second of the season. A we had a race ear we be been looking for for a while a Martin said. Martin led 72 of the 200 laps on the two mile High banked Oval including 70 of the last 77 and the final 39. He battled Earnhardt defending race and series Champion Rusty Wallace and Bill Elliott through the first half of the race. Then he took control passing Wallace for the Lead on Lap 124. Earnhardt who had some handling problems Midway through the race wound up eighth. He now trails Martin by 48 Points 38 More than he did coming into the 19th of this seasons 29 Lascar Winston cup events. Martin held a Lead of nearly two seconds Over sacks before the sixth and final caution period of the Day bunched the leaders on Lap 173. Wallace who made a late pit Stop for tires managed to get Back to third narrowly beating Elliott and Ricky Rudd who had charged ail the Way from 39th in the 41-car Field to the top 10 by the Halfway Point. Davey Allison was sixth ahead of Geoff Bodine and Earnhardt. Bodine third in the season standings lost 34 Points and trails Martin by 154. Wallace in fourth place fell Back 15 Points to Trail the Leader by 275. There were no serious accidents and no injuries reported in the race slowed by 26 caution laps. Martin who won $71,200, averaged 138.821 Mph