European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 18, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 22 a a a the stars and stripes thursday october 18,1990tired of Reading Rijo takes action of i Jose Rijo mows Down the Bash Brothers for seven innings tuesday night in Cincinnati. By Joe Kay Cincinnati apr Jose Rijo Cut the mighty Oakland a s Down to size with his Slider then blew away their invincibility with his fastball. Now the world series does no to seem like a formality anymore a just what Rijo intended. A a we be heard so much about the a a. I read in the papers How they were going to beat us in five games a Rijo said after pitching seven shutout innings in the reds 7-0 Victory tuesday in game 1. A that gave me Rijos impressive Outing proved what some of the reds have privately suspected a the a Sareny to so big and bad after All. They can be had. A nobody has Given us any credit a said reliever Rob Dibble who pitched one shutout inning. A a it a not like we re a sixth place team playing the a a. We re the National league champs and we deserve to be Rijo helped them underscore the Point with a nearly flawless performance under pressure. He allowed seven hits struck out five and walked two As he helped the reds Start thinking the unthinkable. A we can win this thing a Rijo said a if we do what we did tonight a done to make any All weekend Long the reds had heard about the mighty a a about the Bash Brothers about 600-foot homers and merciless big innings. The Only sound heard against Rijo in game 1 was the soft splinter of the Bat Bush bows out Cincinnati a president Bush has decided not to attend wednesday nights world series game commissioner Fay Vincent said tuesday. Bush had said he would go to the game at riverfront stadium but the president told Vincent he must stay in Washington because of government business. First lady Barbara Bush still plans to attend the game spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said. Snapping in half. A i had great command of my Slider a Rijo said. A a that a really the big difference. I knew where every pitch was at somebody a Glove. It was a Sweet comeback for a Pitcher who never found a Niche with the a a and ended up coming to the reds in the Trade for Dave Parker. But Rijo swore revenge was the farthest thing from his mind. A i forget about them being my old team. I said to myself a in be got to beat the Best team in baseball. In be got to be i did a i made the right pitches when i had time after time. And the reds Confidence grew time after from Page 17 something a Hatcher said. During the athletics 10-game Breeze through the postseason they never trailed by More than one run. In last years world series sweep they never trailed at All. Most of All it was the underdog reds not the top dog athletics. By the fourth inning Cincinnati led 4-0 a Matching the total number of runs the a a gave up in sweeping Boston in the american league playoffs a and by the time Rob Dibble relieved Rijo to Start the eighth it was Over and it matched Oakland a worst shutout defeat of the season. A even one had us projected to win the first game a Akland manager Tony la Russa said. A the club that wins it gets a leg up Ana has a Little extra Confidence and gets some of that momentum. So they have that Edge and it makes it pretty Clear that its our responsibility to try to get Cincinnati a Victory put the world series in a different Light. Color it red for now. That was the color on almost every person in the crowd of 55,830 on tuesday. For the athletics it was not a devastating defeat a not like the Kirk Gibson game in the 1988 world series from which they never recovered. But it did show that baseball a winning est team could not win them All. Only two teams the new York Yankees in 1927-28 and 1938-39, had swept consecutive world series. The first club murderers Row with babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig also swept the 1932 series for a record 12 straight postseason victories. Oakland was to try to Start a one game winning Streak wednesday night in game 2 when Bob Welch faced Danny Jackson. Stewart a 22-game Winner this season and Welch who won 27, made consecutive starts 29 times this year and Only twice lost both. A we wanted to get started on the right foot a Cincinnati manager Lou Piniella said. A tomorrow they have another excellent Pitcher going in Bob Welch. We want to play Well at Home because we expect them to be Tough at their Cincinnati Only outhit the athletics 10-9, but made a lot More of what it got. Davis who hit .174 in the National league playoffs and failed to get the Ball out of the infield in 18 of 23 at bats drove in three runs and Chris sabots two run sin Gle capped a three run fifth that made it 7-0. The athletics less imposing without designated hitter Harold Baines had their chances and did nothing wit them. They left runners at first and third in three innings and after batting .343 with the bases loaded this season stranded three runners in the fifth when me Gwire popped out. Oakland has 21 players who have been in the world series compared with just one for Cincinnati. Still the reds were the ones who were Cool while the a a were jittery. A somebody has to beat them a Cincinnati outfielder Paul of Neill said. A a it a Good to beat anyone and whether its there Ace or not really does no to matter. That a the Way its been All season Stewart fell behind on nearly every hitter in the Earl going and it Cost him. He walked Hatcher with one Oul in the first then Davis hit the first pitch he Ever saw in a world series to become the 22nd player to Homer in his first at Bat. A it was a situation where he would come in there with the pitch and in Man aggressive Type of hitter a he from Page 17 Hatcher and a run scoring come Backer to of Neill. Suddenly it was 4-0 and the game was practically Over. A i worked behind the count pretty much to everybody a Stewart said. A when i had to make a pitch it was a Citable when All was said and done Stewart threw 30 balls and just 34 strikes. He said his fastball was the primary problem. A it does no to happen often but it Hap evened tonight a Oakland pitching coach it ave Duncan said. A most of the time its Early in the game and he Sable to work his Way out of it. Tonight he Stewart came out when Doug Jennings Pinch hit for him in the fifth inning. That a not the usual Stewart. This is the usual Stewart a in 10 previous postseason starts he walked 18 in 77% innings an average of two per nine innings. A he walked just two in 18 innings against Boston in this years playoffs. He averaged just 2.8 walks per nine innings this season. A he Hadnot come out after four innings since aug. 25 and head never before had a postseason Start this Short. A he a the first Pitcher since Jim Palmer 1975-78 to win 20 games for four consecutive seasons. A this is the first time in a while he Hasni to kept us in the game and shut the other team Down a Oakland third baseman Carney Lansford said. Oakland a five pitchers walked six in All. They threw 5o balls and 64 strikes. Stewart got in a Hole and the defending world series champions climb out. A when he did no to throw a strike he had to pitch the Ball Down the Middle a Oak land manager Tony la Russa said. A there if a Bunch of Good hitters on that club and they made him usually stewarts the one in control dominating with a soft voice and a hard stare. This time the pitches were soft and the hits were hard. He had five Days of rest since finishing off Boston instead of the usual four. Perhaps that was the problem. A maybe. He could have been a Little Strong a Duncan said. A nothing you can do about perhaps Stewart was just due for a bad Outing. He had Given up three runs or fewer in eight straight starts since aug. A Stew arts a a professional a reds manager Lou Piniella said. A a he la Bounce Back. I done to know what happened a i done to think anybody in Here has got their Heads Down a Stewart said. A a we be got a 27-game Winner from Page 17 a a a for Effort for his sliding near catch on Rickey Henderson a third inning double. Or perhaps give him an a be a for a enormous a As in the Impact his first inning two run Homer had on a team some said last beyond four games. A was Eric Davis goes we go a reliever Rob Dibble said. A when he shitting it makes everybody a Job a Little easier. He drove in three runs and scored two runs and that a five of our runs. That a Eric a a it a not a matter of me lifting the team but when i swing the Bat Well it takes pressure off the other Guys and they relax Davis said. A a it a easier to hit when you have the and thanks mostly to Davis the reds have a 1-0 Lead
