European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 15, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 26 b the stars and stripes monday april 15,1991 s Bat lifts cubs from wire reports. Chicago a opposing pitchers have enough to worry about when they face a Chicago cubs lineup featuring the likes of Andre Dawson George Bell Mark Grace and sync Sandberg. But Mike Bielecki Bielecki a career .076 hitter drove in four runs and tossed eight innings of 3-hit Ball saturday to Send the Chicago cubs to a 7-3 Victory Over the Pittsburgh pirates. A you know its going to be a bad Day when the opposing Pitcher gets four Bis a Pittsburgh manager Jim Leyland said. A Don t get used to seeing stuff like that a Bielecki said. Bielecki who had a total of seven hits for a .163 average last season had a pair of two run singles. Bielecki who has become a fill in fifth starter while Rick Sutcliffe continues his shoulder rehabilitation notched his first win of the season. Besides getting the win Bielecki leads the cubs with four Bis. He entered the game with five in his entire career. The last cubs Pitcher to have four Bis in one game was Steve Engel on aug. 26, 1985, against Houston. While Bielecki was pitching like a by Young Winner Doug Drabek last seasons Winner of the award was not. Drabek 0-2, who was 22-6 last season allowed six hits Over four innings for the loss. Drabek has Given up seven earned runs in nine innings this season. Les Lancaster started the ninth for the cubs and yielded Lloyd Mcclendone a three run Homer with one out. Rookie Gary Scott hit a two run double in a three run fifth inning for the cuts. In other games saturday giants 16, astros 2 Houston Kevin Mitchell homered twice to give him a major league leading five As san Francisco pounded Houston for 19 hits. A. A y Mitchell who Hadnot homered in the Astrodome since aug. 11, 1988, hit a three run Homer in the first off Mike Scott 0-2 and a Mcadoff Homer in the eight run seventh off Darryl Kile. Scott Garrelts 1-0who missed a scheduled Start on tuesday with an inflamed shoulder shut out Houston on two hits formational league six san Francisco a 16 runs were the most by the giants since a 238 Victory at Atlanta last june 8. It was the most runs allowed by Houston since a 17-5 loss to Pittsburgh on May 21,1989,padres 6, dodgers 3 los Angeles Jerald Clark drove in three runs and ran. His Streak to six straight hits with his second consecutive three hit game for san Diego against los Angeles. Tony Gwynn also helped Power a 14-hit attack with three hits in support of Eric Nolle 10who pitched 6% innings of five hit Ball before leaving with a Blister on Middle Finger of his left hand. A. A a Quot a. A a the Victory was Nolter a first in the major leagues since aug. 29, 1987, when he threw a four hitter against Philadelphia. Loser Kevin Gross 0-1 was chased after Only in a innings in his dodger debut surrendering five runs and seven 6, cardinals 2 Philadelphia Lenny Dykstra matched a career High with three stolen bases and John Kruk drove in two runs As Philadelphia beat is. Louis for the Phillies third consecutive Victory. A a. Ferry Mulholland 1-1 Aal Lowed 10 hits in 7% innings walked two and struck out one Mitch Williams finished with hit less Relief for his second save As a Phillie. Bob Tewksbury 0-1who allowed Only 15 walks in 145 a innings last season walked three in four innings mets 5, expos 3 new York Dwight Gooden overcame a steady drizzle to strike out 14 and pitched a seven hitter for the first Complete game in the National league this season a a a a a a a. A a a a a a a a Gooden 2-0 had. Difficulty with his footing on the wet Mound until a drying agent was added by the ground Crew at the. Request of mets manager Bud Harrelson. The Light rain started in the first inning and continued for the rest of the Johnson broke out of a slump with a two run Homer and a sacrifice Fly As the mets rallied. Dennis Martinez was having problems of his own with the cold and wet conditions. In five innings Martinez 1-1 gave up three runs on five hits six walks and a costly hit batsman. He made 136 pitches including 63 for balls. A. A the six walks raised the Metsy season total to an incredible 48 in six games. A braves 7, reds 5 Cincinnati Sid Bream hit a two run Homer and David Justice a two run double As Al Lanta built a six run Lead and held on. A a a a a. Jack Armstrong 0-1 was pounded for five runs in two innings and is 1-6 since starting last years All Star game. Steve Avery i-0 pitched five innings to get the Victory. The left hander allowed eight hits and three runs and left with a 6-3 Lead. Terry Pendleton hit a Solo Homer off Don Carman to stretch the Lead to four runs in the seventh but Glenn Braggs countered with a two run Homer in the Bottom of the inning off Juan Berenguer. A s find another Rookie who can turn on steam from wire reports Oakland Calif. A Joe Slusarski and Kirk Dressendorfe May be As hard to hit As their names Are to pronounce. The two Oakland pitchers made names for themselves in the first week of the season with impressive debuts for the athletics. A. Dressendorfe scattered four hits Over 5a innings saturday in his first major league appearance to help the a a to a 4-2 Victory Over the Seattle mariners. On thursday Slusarski tossed seven shutout innings in his debut for Oakland in a 3-0 Victory Over Minnesota. Dressendorfe relying on his fastball allowed two runs struck out five and walked two. Curt Young Kitchen a innings of Relief and Dennis Eckersley ruled two innings for his second save. A a the going to throw some Nasty strikes All Over the strike zone a Oakland manager Tony Larussa said of the hard throwing present Loafer. A with him throwing 90-plus Mph you wont see a Jot of Guys digging in against him knowing he could let one go at any Rich Deleia 0-1, another new face who came up from the minors late last season for the mariners pitched seven Strong innings. The right hander allowed four runs and six hits struck out six and walked three. Jose Canseco led off the eighth with his first Home run to Knock out Deleia. The a a won their third straight and kept Seattle wingless Iri their first five games the worst Start in club Quot. other games saturday White sox 4, tigers 1 Detroit a Jack Mcdowell pitched a two hitter and struck out 10, and Ozzie Guillen broke a ninth inning tie As Chicago beat Detroit for the White sox a fourth con. Secu Tive Victory. A with the score tied 1,-t in the ninth Sammy Sosa and Ron Karkovice hit consecutive singles with one out off Frank Tanana 0-i. Craig Grebeck walked to Load the bases and Guillen hit a slow roller to second baseman Lou we Hitaker whose Only play was at second base. Tim Raines followed with a two run Bloop single. Mcdowell 2-i matched ins career strikeout High and walked two retiring is of the last 19 batters Frank Tan Ana 0-1 allowed seven hits in 8a innings walked five and struck out three red sox 4, indians 0 Bosto Roger Clemens pitched a three hitter and struck out 11 saturday and Carlos Quintana drove in two runs to help Boston end a three game losing league Clemens 2-0, walked none in his first Complete game improving to 9-0 against the indians at Fenway and 15-2 Overall against Cleveland. He has beaten Cleveland More than any other team. The two time by Young award Winner has earned both of Bostons victories this season and has allowed just one run in 17 innings. Indians starter Greg Swindell 0-2, allowed three runs two earned and seven hits Over 6a 7, Blue jays 3 Toronto a Bill Spiers hit his third Home run of the season a two run drive in the second inning to help Milwaukee end Toronto a four game winning Streak. Spiers who came into the season with six Home runs in 708 career at bats has three in 17 at bats this season. Kevin Brown 1-0 allowed six hits in six innings struck out six and walked three. Chuck Crim finished with one hit Relief his first save allowing a two run Homer in the ninth to John Olerud. Dave Stieb 0-2the loser in both Toronto defeats this season gave up four runs and six hits in six innings struck out four and walked 15, twins 9 Minneapolis a californians Dave Winfield Hom cred his first three times up doubled singled and drove in six runs. Winfield had three attempts to become the 12th player with four homers in a game and first since Atlanta a Bob Horner on july 6, 1986. In the sixth inning he bounced a double Down the left Field line. In the eighth Steve Bedrosian got Winfield on a grounder to second. In the ninth he singled in a run off Gary Wayne breaking Fred Patckes june 20, 1980, club record with his 15th total base one Short of the american league record. \ California which saw Minnesota close to 8-7 before a four run sixth inning had 21 of the games 34 hits four of six homers and six of seven wild pitches setting an Al record. Detroit had the previous record of five set in 1912 and matched in 1987. Gary Gaetti went 4 for 6 and drove in his first run since signing with California. Orioles 11, rangers 4 Arlington Texas a Cal Ripken homered twice tripled and drove in a career High seven runs As Baltimore handed wingless Texas its fourth straight loss. Ripken who did no to drive in a run in the first three games of the season hit a run scoring triple in the first inn mpg. Added a two run single in the second and slugged Brewers Jim Gantner leaps Over jays Joe Carter. Str Berg n the sloth and Cir huh innings o Jeff Ballard 1-1 allowed seven hits and four runs i six innings. Kenny Rogers 0-1 allowed five runs and i hits in 1a innings. Homered for Baltimore who Stael Palmeiro and Steve Buchele connected for Texas Yankees 9, royals 8 i to a Matt Nokes homered an doubled in an eight run fifth inning As new York held c to beat Kansas City. D Yan yes who ended a six game losing Streak royals stadium sent 11 batters to the plate in the fifi and took a 9-2 batting .400 against the rivals in the last to seasons started the inning with his first Home run of to season tying the score 2-2,
