European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 8, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Red sox defused without rocket to carry the Load monday october 8, 1990 the stars and stripes a Page 23 byte Liotta Boston apr pull the rocket with a i of Lead after six innings and watch the Boston red sox unravel. Boston manager Joe Morgan took Roger Clemens out saturday night and whether it was the right thing to do or not had to sit through the ugly results. His bullpen gave up the tying run the next inning Oakland a go ahead run the inning after that and seven More in the ninth for Good measure. After the athletics were done beating the red sox 9-1 in game 1 of the american league playoffs Morgan said he never considered sending Clemens out for another inning. A no Way. He was cooked a Morgan said. A the was struggling at that Point. Why Send him Back out there. It was a great game that turned into a Lousy  after Clemens departure a procession of red sox pitchers a Larry Andersen Tom Bolton Jeff Gray Dennis lamp Rob Murphy a paraded from the Boston bullpen to the Mound to the dugout. The result nine runs in three innings. But somebody had to pick up for Clemens who is far from being in top shape. Even though he beat Toronto a week earlier an Effort heralded As super human because it was his first Start m 25 Days. Morgan already said Clemens would not come Back and pitch in three Days. It was Clear the red sox were Happy with anything they could get out of Clemens. A the pitched just like he did against Toronto a pitching coach Bill Fischer said. A the threw 97 pitches. If he went Back out there he would have thrown 120. He was getting  Clemens who threw four pitches More than he did in beating the Blue jays did no to argue with the move. A the knew he had had enough a Morgan  Page 21 tuna Ely for us his shoulder  let him do  it was stewarts sixth Victory in nine postseason starts. A a a ens no decision left him 1-1 in seven playoff and world series games. A Njus worked out pretty much the Way i wanted u a. Stewart map of last years world series Ine heavily favored athletics who rudely swept Boson out of the 1988 playoffs planned to Send 27-game Day get against Dana Kiecker 8-9 on Sun from the Start the series opener featured a Duel tween 20-game winners who like each other Only a hit , each other a lot. Neither gave up a Unta Wade Boggs homered with two outs in the Clemens Effort a six innings four hits four walks and four strikeouts a was excellent considering his Lack of recent activity. You have to take into account that he went out there with the Best that he had tonight and he a still not 100 percent a Oakland Pitcher Dave Stewart said. A a healthy Roger Clemens probably could have taken it further and maybe even get the  b two thirds of Clemens May be better than none but just As Morgan found out its not enough to beat the defending world series Champion a a who were Happy to see him leave. A a you re glad to see anybody come in after a Guys pitching the Way Roger was a said Oakland a Carney Lansford who singled off Clemens in the sixth and added two hits off the bullpen. A i think he had his Good stuff tonight. He had outstanding velocity. He just did no to throw As Many sliders and for balls As he normally would if his shoulder was  when morgans Hook came Clemens was clearly struggling a seven of the previous 13 batters he faced had reached safely a but he was winning and getting people out. And All Morgan had left was a bullpen that has been shaky at Best. Oakland stranded two runners in the fourth and fifth innings and Clemens opened the sixth by walking Willie Mcgee and Jose Canseco with a wild pitch mixed in. Clemens was rescued there by a double play As Harold Baines lined his next pitch right at second baseman Jody Reed who caught Mcgee off second. A we Felt that after the fourth inning and fifth inning when we got a few runners on base and he got out of those innings that it was about our time to get it a Oakland a Rickey Henderson said. A the just came out of the ballgame before we did  a a Pitcher Dave Stewart works during his eight inning winning Effort saturday Boston fourth. By then though Clemens was starting to struggle. He had not pitched More than six innings since aug. 30 and it showed. Clemens needed a Nice running catch by second baseman Jody Reed to end the fourth with runners on first and third and he retired Henderson on a Fly Ball to finish the fifth with runners again at the Corners. In the sixth Clemens started with six straight balls and it was apparent he was in trouble. This time a rocket saved the rocket when Baines lined into a double play with two runners on. Clemens left after allowing four hits and four walks and striking out four. The sellout crowd of 35,192 seemed to sense trouble when Andersen relieved and Mark Mcgwire Drew a Lead off walk in the seventh. After Walt Weiss grounded into a Force out Oakland a Best Pinch hitter Jamie quirk singled Weiss to third. Henderson a Fly Ball tied it As Weiss Slid in safely when Center fielder Ellis Burks throw Home hit him. Clemens set the tone Early opening with five straight strikes and setting Down the first three Oakland batters on just eight pitches. Stewart came right Back and retired the red sox on 10 pitches fanning Boggs to end the inning. It went on the same Way two pitchers with different styles getting the same results. Clemens measured and More deliberate did not give up a hit until Baines singled with two outs in the fourth. Stewart working quickly was interrupted Only by a two out walk in the second to Dwight Evans until Boggs homered Over the Green monster. While Clemens struggled through the Middle innings. Stewart was efficient if not perfect. He got Tony Pena to ground into a double play to finish the fifth and with a runner on second in the sixth got Carlos Quintana on a Fly Ball and fanned Boggs again. Mears captures indy car Marlboro Challenge Nazareth a. A Rick Mears a hence a pit Stop and a key Chassis Justement to run away with the Marlboro avenge invitational indy car race saturday Pennsylvania International raceway. Mears who Hadnot led one Lap of Competition since winning the cart season Pener at Phoenix in april moved to the i. A the 66th of 100 laps on the one-thf>e<ton0va an it dominated the rest of  a �?T000 event that matched the top Drivers in the indy car series. The Victory in the non Points race earned Mears $252,500, his Best purse since winning the 1988 Indianapolis 500. The three time indy Winner beat runner up Emerson Fittipaldi a Penske racing teammate by 4.256 seconds. He averaged 153.484 Mph. A1 Unser jr., who was scheduled to try to wrap up his first cart pig cup season championship in sundays featured Bosch spark plug grand prix was third followed by indy Winner Arie Luyendyk. Teammates Mario and Michael Andretti the latter Unser a pursuer in the season Points race were fifth and sixth respectively both two laps behind Mears. Bobby Rahal finished seventh followed another Lap Back by Danny Sullivan in the third Penske car Teo Fabi six laps off the Pace and Eddie Cheever who went out of the race after Only 24 laps with handling problems followed Rahal. Michael Andretti who has won two straight cart events started from the pole and led the first 65 laps before Mears who started fourth and worked his Way carefully to the front passed for the Lead in the second turn. The younger Andretti had a slow pit Stop then had to pit a second time ending his Chance for Victory. A the fuel nozzle stuck a he said. A i did no to get fuel so they had to change the nozzle and then i came Back in. Its a shame. I think the car was Good enough to win a