European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 07, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Rhi it Artt and 8trint& f Tom Oftay. Law of Kif Long Bagwell or keys astros 6-4 win Over pirates by ii a���d�f�4 pro  0�uf draft Csc had emf h Hud very Keg talk Jeff bag Tell hit a Long Home non and the Pittsburgh per diet Keg Day Bagwell hit the ninth upper deck Home Tun a and maybe the longest a in three Rivera stadium of Story and Steve Hulcy had a two run drive leading the Houston Airm to a 6-4 Victory sunday Over the pirate and struggling by Young award Winner Doc Drubeck. Drabick 15a 22 6 Pitcher Lait year gave up Tevon hit and three runs in five innings. Me failed to last past the fifth in Ning Tor the fourth time in i six starts Muf is off to his worst Start since he was 1-8 in 1987. A the Hast pitched very Well and we Haven to scored Many runs for him. Its of simple As that a pirates pitching coach Roy Miller said. Drabick a control Pitcher who walked Only 56 in 231v6 innings last season struggled to throw strikes and walked four. Maybe it had something to do with his Long walk to the Park. Many of the Normal routes to three Rivers were closed because of the Pittsburgh Marathon and Drabek was unable to Park in the players parking lot. He had to walk More than a mile when a traffic officer did no to recognize him and waved his car away from the stadium. Bagwell a Pinch hit drive in the seventh inning off Bob Kipper made it 4-1 and landed five rows deep into the upper Dick stands. The drive was estimated at 456 feet the longest Homer to left Field since three Rivers opened in 1970. Only three other players a Bob Rob National league Erta Ott ores t us ski and inward John son a a have bordered into the upper deck to left with Johnsons shot coming pm april 15, Mark Portugal 3-1 brought a 5 82 Fra into the game but checked Pirn Burgh on one hit a Gary Var How it rib double in the fifth a until tiring in the eighth. Portugal was lifted after Don is aug it and Jose und singled a head of Orlando Mercedes three run Homer. In other games sunday Dodo Law 3, poll blog 2 Philadelphia Alfredo Griffin singled Home the tie breaking run in the eighth inning and Jay Howell pitched around a Ica Doit triple in the ninth preserving the los Angeles Victory. John Morris opened the ninth against Howell with the second triple of the game off right fielder Darryl Strawberry s Glove. Howell protected the Lead for his Sec Pirn Backman on a shallow Fly got Pinch hitter but Howell p Roth Cuci Ond save. He retired Inch hitter Willy Dale Murphy on a hard grounder and set Down Lenny Dykstra on a grounder. Mike Morgan 3-2 allowed two runs on seven hits in seven inning. Reds 4, cardinals 2 Cincinnati Eric Davis hit  Homer during a four run burst in the eighth inning As Cincinnati roughed up re Liever Lee Smith and rallied past St. Louis. Jose Deleon left after Billy hatchery a two out triple in the eighth and on came Smith who had been successful in his last 15 save opportunities including nine this season. Giants first baseman will Clark snags a pop foul near the rail in Shea stadium. Barry Larkin doubled and Davis Fol 2-1. Tom Browning 4-1 allowed six Lowed with his first Home run of the sea hits in eight innings and Rob Dibble son for a 32 Lead. Mariano Duncan later pitched the ninth for his seventh save in delivered an rib single to Chase Quot Smith seven  Tattoo a s pitching again by the associated press Oakland Calif. Bob Welch 27-6 and the american league by Young award Winner last season had one of the worst starts of his career sunday As Cleveland crushed Oakland for the second straight game. After beating the a a 20-6 on saturday the indians came Back for a 15-6 rout sunday at the Oakland coliseum. Welch the Al by Young Winner gave up 13 hits and career High 11 runs 4 2-3 innings. He lost to Cleveland for the first time in 10 career decisions. A a it a frustrating a a a pitching coach Dave Duncan said. A you done to like it but it happens. They hit everything. We threw everything we had and they hit everything be  after scoring 20 runs on 21 hits in saturdays Victory the indians had 19 hits scoring four runs in the first inning and five More in the fifth off Welch. Their 35 runs Over the two amps were four More than they and scored in their first 13 games and it was the most Ever against Oakland in two consecutive games. The previous High was 29 runs by visiting Texas on july 2-3, 1983. Jerry Browne drove in four runs and Carlos Barga had three hits including a two run Homer off Eric show in the indians three run seventh. Albert Belle and Joel Skinner each drove in three runs Browne who was batting Only ,150 Friday was 4 for 9 in the two games with two triples a double five Bis and five runs scored. He had been dropped from the no. 2 spot in the batting order to the Bottom of the Ordera i try to get off to a Good Start every year Browne said. A but it seems like its not meant for me to do  a a a a everybody started hitting a Baerga said. A i done to know what happened but we were doing something  a Liv runs the indians i up behind Winner Greg Swinnell the 15 runs the indians put up 1 1-3 sunday were six More than they scored in All of his five previous starts this season. Swindell gave up seven hits and three runs in seven innings before Rod Nichols and Jesse Orosco finished. The indians team batting average improved from .249 to .263 in the two games. A a it a Tough to imagine wed score 35 runs in two games a said Chris James who drove in a team record nine runs saturday. A usually after a game like saturday you Bounce Back and play a 1-0 or 2-1 game. Doing this against Oakland is  the indians battered Oakland a Bob Welch for four run american league in the first inning and 11 runs eight earned in 436 innings sunday. Welch had been 7-0 in nine starts against Cleveland and allowed Only 13 runs in 66 innings. In other games sunday Blue jays 3, royals 0 Kansas City to. Dave Stieb pitched no hit Ball for 536 innings and combined with two relievers on a three hitter As Toronto beat struggling Kansas City. The royals finished their Home stand 2-8. Mike Timlin relieved Stieb 32 with two outs and none on in the eighth and Duane Ward got the last three outs for his seventh save allowing one hit Tom Gordon 1-2 gave up Only six hits in eight innings and was the hard Luck  5, Brewers 2 Milwaukee Shane Macks bases loaded sacrifice Fly sparked a three run 10th inning As Minnesota beat Milwaukee. Rookie Chuck Knoblauch walked to Start the 10th off Edwin Nunez 1-1 and moved to second when Nunez fumbled Kirby Puckett a sacrifice for an error. Gene Larkin sacrificed the runners up before Nunez walked Chili Davis intentionally to Load the bases. Mack snapped the tie and Brian Harper added a two run single. Rick Aguilera 1-2 pitched three innings giving up four hits and one run for the  8, rangers 7 Detroit a a Rob Deer had two Home runs among his four hits As the Detroit held on to defeat Texas. Deer has eight Home runs and is tied with Oakland a Dave Henderson for the Al Lead. Texas took a 1-0 Lead in the second on Ruben sierras sixth Homer but the tigers sent 10 batters to the plate in the Bottom of the inning and scored five runs off Kevin Brown 2-2. Walt Terrell 1-3 pitched 516 innings allowing four runs for the Victory. Mike Henneman the fourth Detroit Pitcher worked the last two innings and gave up three runs and six  sox 9, White sox 1 Chicago a Kevin Romine hit his first major league grand slam leading Matt Young 1-1 and Boston Over Chicago and a sweep of the three game series. It was the sixth Victory in the last seven games for the first place red sox. The White sox have lost five straight. Romine making his first Start of the season in place of slumping Ellis Burks hit his grand slam off Alex Fernandez 2-3 in the second inning. Quot. Angels 6, orioles 4 Anaheim Calif. A Jim a Bott survived an Early three run deficit for his first Victory in nine starts dating Back to last season As Gary Gaetti keyed a six run rally in the fourth inning with a three run Homer As California beat Baltimore. Abbott 1-4who last won on sept. 10, allowed eight hits and three earned runs in 536 innings. Mark Eichhorn worked 216 innings and Bryan Harvey finished for his sixth save. California tied it at 3-All off Jeff Ballard 2-3 when Luis Sojo singled Wally Joyner doubled and Gaetti hit his third Homer. A mariners 5, Yankees 4 Seattle Greg Briley hit a two run Homer in the 16th inning ending the longest game in kingdom history and rallying Seattle past new York. After Kevin Maas homered to Lead off the Yankees 16th, the mariners won it when Omar Viz Quel doubled with one out and Briley homered off Rich Monte Leone 0-1. The game took 5 hours 31 minutes surpassing the 4 hours 27 minutes that Seattle and Toronto needed to play 13 innings in 1985. A the Yankees left 19 runners on and had 18 hits. They went ahead when Maas to Mirea for the second straight game against Bill Krueger 1-0but Monteleone could not Hola the Lead