European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 11, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday september 11,1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 23expos top bucs phils beat mets by the associated press Pittsburgh a the Pittsburgh pirates lost sunday but remained 3 a games ahead of new York in the National league East race As the mets also lost 6-2 to Philadelphia. Andres Galarraga and Mike Fitzgerald homered As the Montreal expos took an Early four run Lead and went on to beat Pittsburgh 9-5. Five of Montreal a six hits off Bob walk 5-5 were for extra bases As the expos took a 4-0 Lead in the third then withstood Home runs by Jeff King and Barry Bonds. The pirates closed within a run before Montreal broke the game open with four runs in the ninth. A a in be just pitched four of the worst innings of my life a walk said. A i can to remember the last time in be been so futile. In a getting  the loss was Only the second in nine games for Pittsburgh. The expos who won six of nine in Pittsburgh improved to 10-5 against the pirates despite losing starter Dennis Martinez after one pitch because of a bruised right Collarbone. Martinez was replaced by Mel Rojas 2-1. In other games sunday Phillies 6, mets 2 Philadelphia a Dickie Thon broke an 0-for-21 slump with a go ahead double in the four run seven hit seventh inning As new York lost for the sixth time in seven  Roundup _ Pat Combs 7-9 and Joe Boever combined on a Tive hitter to Lead the Phillies to their fourth Victory Over the mets in their last five games. Boever pitched two perfect innings for his 12th save. Sid Fernandez 9-12 led 2-1 going into the seventh but gave up a game tying single to Pinch hitter von Hayes thongs double and Darren Daulton a two run single. Dodgers 6, reds 4 los Angeles a Alfredo Griffin drove in the go ahead run with a fifth inning squeeze bunt As los Angeles reduced Cincinnati a Lead to 5 v2 games in the no West. Ramon Martinez 17-6 increased his record against the no West to 10-0 this year. Martinez allowed eight hits in his ninth Complete game the most in the majors. He fanned eight to give him 200 strikeouts and regained the no Lead from David Cone of the mets. Cincinnati third baseman Bill Doran made two errors that led to a pair of unearned runs. Danny Jackson 5-4 gave up five runs and seven hits in five innings. Giants 5, astros 1 san Francisco a Kevin Mitchell drove in three runs and Mark Portugal 8-10 lost to san Francisco for the first time in six career decisions. Mitchell who began the game in an 0-for-16 slump hit an rib single with two outs in the first and a two out two run Homer in the sixth. It was his 33rd Home run of the season and tied him with sync Sandberg of the Chicago cubs for the league Lead. Mike Lacoss 6-3 took the loss. Padres 5, braves 4, 11 innings san Diego a Garry Templeton drove in the winning run with an Lith inning groundnut and reliever Eric show 5-8 extended his scoreless Streak to 15 a innings As Atlanta lost for Only the second time in its last 10 games. Joe Carter hit a Solo Homer for his 105th run batted in for the padres. Kent Mercker 4-4 walked Jack Clark to open the 11th and Pinch runner Phil Stephenson went to third on Carters single. Benito Santiago bounced out to the Mound and Stephenson scored ahead of first baseman Tommy Gregg a throw on Templeton a grounder. Cardinals 9, cubs 2 Chicago a John Tudor pitching in Relief for the second time this season won his first game in More than a month with four scoreless innings and Felix Jose and Ray Lankford each drove in a pair of runs. Jose had two hits including a Home run and Lankford went 4 for 5 with a double and three singles. Tudor 12-4 gave up three hits and won his first game since aug. 5. Starter Bryn Smith who spent the last month on the do with a sore right shoulder gave up two runs and six hits in four innings in his first appearance since july 27. Loser Mike Bielecki 7-10wingless in his last 10 starts at Home lasted 1 % innings yielding three runs. Al red sox Catcher Tony Pena loses Battle with flans for pop foul sunday at Fenway Park from Page 21 2-19 against Boston and the 1982 edition went 2-11 against Baltimore. Stewart 19-10 gave up nine hits in eight innings. He shut out the Yankees on three hits for five innings. But new York tied it 3-3 on Matt Nokes two run single in the sixth and Alvaro Espinoza sri single in the seventh. Mcgwire led off the Oakland second with his 36th Home run. In other games sunday Blue jays 6, White sox 1 Toronto a Fred Mcgriff and Greg Myers hit consecutive Home runs in a four run sixth inning As Toronto beat Chicago to move within 4 la games of Boston in the East. The Blue jays broke their Al attendance record with a sellout crowd of 49,870. It was the clubs 48th consecutive sellout and increased the season total to 3,386,385. The slumping White sox made a season High four errors in losing for the third straight Day to the Blue jays. Jimmy key 10-7 gave up one unearned run in seven innings. Mariners 3, red sox 1 Boston a Matt Young gave up pne run in seven innings and tied a major league record with four strikeouts in the first inning As Seattle beat Boston. Young 8-14 became the 21st major leaguer and ninth in the american league to strike out four batters in an inning. Bill Swift worked two innings for his fifth save giving up two hits. Joe Hesketh 0-2 made his first Start since 1986, replacing ailing Roger Clemens in the red sox rotation. Orioles 3, Angels 1 Baltimore a Rookie Anthony Telford earned his second major league Victory with 6 a solid innings and Baltimore beat California to Complete a three game sweep. Telford called up from class a Ball in mid August improved to 2-2. Indians 12, twins 9 Minneapolis a Candy Maldonado a two out seventh inning double scored the go ahead runs in Cleveland a seven run rally to Lead the indians past Minnesota. The indians rallied from a 5-1 deficit off starter Mark Guthrie and reliever Jack Savage 0-2 with eight of their season High 20 hits in the seventh. Tigers 5, Brewers 0 Milwaukee a Scott Aldred gave up four hits Over five innings to win his major league debut As Detroit snapped a four game losing Streak by beating Milwaukee. Aldred 6-15 with a 4.90 earned run average at triple a Toledo walked five and pitched out of two bases loaded jams before leaving. Rangers 6, royals 5 Arlington Texas a Steve Farris bases loaded walk to Pete Incaviglia with two out in the ninth inning lifted Texas past Kansas City. Gerald Alexander a 19-game Winner in the minors this season made his major league debut but the Kansas City hitters chased the Tulane Grad with eight singles in 3 a a  wins Miller with empty tank by Mike Harris Richmond a. Apr Dale Earnhardt said his team a stretched the Gas can on the Way to Victory in sundays Miller genuine draft 400 at Richmond International raceway. Rusty Wallace and Mark Martin were not As fortunate both losing leads due to late fuel stops As Earnhardt drove to his second straight Victory and his eighth of the season. A we were really Lucky to win that race As bad As we were handling a Earnhardt said. A the strategy just worked out for  Earnhardt ran the final 126 laps on the three Quarter mile Oval without stopping for fuel finishing the 400-Lap, 300-mile event with the engine in his Chevrolet Lumina sputtering from fuel starvation. He said team owner Richard Childress told him on the two Way radio he could make it to the end. A they figured the mileage a Earnhardt said. A i just hoped they were right. I kept my fingers  the Victory moved Earnhardt within 16 Points of Martin in the Battle for a scary a Winston cup Stock car championship. Martin held onto the Lead for the 11th straight race but his margin shrank to 3,344-3,328 a the closest Earnhardt has been since he led Early in the season. He Cut 10 Points off Martins Lead on sunday. Earnhardt moved into the race Lead with just 25 laps remaining when Martin who had led by nearly five seconds had to pit for fuel. Martin got Back onto the track m fifth place after a 2.9-second Stop and appeared to have no Chance of catching Earnhardt until a spin by Ernie Irvan with just six laps remaining erased virtually All of the leaders eight second Lead. The Green Flag came Back out on Lap 398 and Earnhardt could see Martin in his rear View Mirror. But the lapped car driven by Harry Gant who was relieving hut Stricklin held him up until it was too late. Martins Ford thunderbird finished 0.43-seconds behind Earnhardt a Chevrolet Lumina. Darrell Waltrip running an entire race for the first time since breaking his leg in a crash on july 6 at Daytona International Speedway finished third followed by Bill Elliott Wallace Kyle Petty and Dick trickle. Earnhardt who has 47 career victories averaged 95.567 Mph and won $59,225. The race was punctuated by crashes and spins which brought out nine caution flags for a total of 55 laps