European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 18, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 26 the stars and stripes saturday May 18, 1991 Barfield hurls or in yanks loss to by the associated press new York a no one has Ever hit a baseball out of Yankee stadium. Jesse Barfield is one of the few to throw one out of the Ballpark. Wally Joyner homered in the fifth inning of californians 7-0 Victory Over the new York Yankees thursday night. The Ball bounced Back into right Field and Barfield picked it up and threw it com Pletchy out of Yankee stadium. A it was a culmination of me not doing the Job offensively and them doing the Job kicking our backside a Barfield said. Quot i was pretty earlier this season Cleveland Salbert Bele and Cincinnati a Rob Dibble were suspended for throwing balls into the stands. A a a a a we heard the cheer for the Home run and then another cheer Quot said Adrian Gutierrez 18, a stadium Security guard. A we saw the Ball come Over the Wall and heard it hit the subway tracks. The Ball fell Down and a kid got it. No one was near where it Joyner went 3 Lor 3, raising his major league leading average to .380. He put the Angels ahead with a three run double in the third against Eric plunk 1-1. Jim Abbott meanwhile scattered seven hits in his fourth career shutout. He walked none and struck out six in his first shutout since last july 13, after going 0-4 with a 6.00 Era in april he has matched his career High with three straight victories �?o1 Felt like i pitched other games As Well As this earlier this year Abbott said. A i just came up with a hard Luck. Streak Quot Joyner extended his hitting Streak to 12 american league games. Luis Sojo doubled Home a run in the fourth Gary Gaetti sri double finished plunk in the fifth and Lance Parrish met John 1 libyan with a run scoring double. Don Mattingly left with a bruised left knee Hurt while breaking up a double play on Barfield s grounder and will be reexamined Friday. A i just have some stiffness in the knee a Mattingly said. In other games thursday mariners 3, indians 1 Cleveland a Tracy Jones and Pete of Brien hit consecutive run scoring doubles in the ninth inning for Seattle. The mariners have won 10 of 11, while the indians have lost eight of nine. Cleveland is 2-1 l at Home this season. Cleveland starter Greg Swindell e5 allowed three runs and eight hits in 8% innings. Swindell has a 2.61 Era hut the indians have scored two runs or fewer in six of his eight starts. A Mike Jackson 4-2 pitched 2% scoreless innings. J athletics 11, orioles 5 Baltimore Oakland a Harold Baines continued his assault on. Baltimore pitching with a three run Homer two singles and a walk. A Baines homered off Jose Mesa 4-4 in the first after walks to Rickey Henderson and Jose Canseco. Baines is m for 16 with 11 Bis against. The orioles this season.1 four of his live Home runs have come against Baltimore. Joe Klink 2-2 pitched two innings of one hit Ball in Relief of Kirk Dressendorfe mariners Jeff Schaefer lunges Over indians Mark Lewis after do throw to first. Or. Baltimore lost for the eighth time in 11 games. Brewers 6, twins 3 Minneapolis Robin Yount and Dante Bichette homered and Bill Wegman won his first game in almost a year for mib a a. A Wegman who missed much of last season and All of april with an Elbow injury pitched five innings to pick up his first Victory since shutting out Oakland 5-0 on May 18, 1990. He allowed five hits struck out two and walked one. Minnesota a Allan Anderson 1-3 lasted just three innings giving up six hits and five runs. He has not won since april 10, his first Start of the season. Chison clip cubs Chicago a the Chicago cubs and White sox look their Crosstown rivalry to the new Comiskey Park on thursday night and the White sox won the Windy City classic 7-2 As Cory Snyder drove in three runs. Bob Wickman brought up from Sarasota of the class a Florida state league allowed five hits in six innings for the White sox who Are 6-0 against the cubs with a tie since the series resumed in 1985.drex/er collides with magic act by Bob Baum Hie associated press a Portland Ore. A Clyde status As one of the a bad a Best has been enhanced by his playoff performance. A now he gets to guard magic Johnson. Challenges done to get any smaller. Just ask Drexler. A a he a a fantastic player the player of the decade. 1 done to think 1 need to say much More. He s just a Heck of a Guy to try to defend Quot Drexler said. Drexler is. Johnson will be just one of Many intriguing matchup on display when the Portland Trail blazers and los Angeles lakers begin their Best-of-7 Western conference final series saturday Drexler has led the a hikers in scoring rebounding assists and steals through 10 playoff games but his defense often is overlooked Clyde can he As disruptive As Michael Jordan in the Way he can fill passing lanes and the Way he can do a lot of things a Portland coach Rick Adelman said. A i done to think he gets the credit he deserves. He Sable to get to Guys very quickly through screens. He always has to fake the Tough Guy on the other team. A i think he a really been in tune at that end of the floor the last couple of Drexler who averaged nearly 26 Points per game against the lakers this season sat out practice thursday because of the sprained right big toe that bothered him through the final three games of the conference semifinal series against Utah. But he said the injury was greatly improved. A the toes feeling a whole lot belter a he said Quot with another Days rest its going to he like he said he about his defensive Rcpt tation Al know i m a Good defensive player Quot he said. Against Johnson head better be. A the can beat you in so Many ways Quot Drexler series on an to. A a a a Central Ein Opean Tii Pio game 1�?9 . Saturday. Game 2 a 5 . Wednesday. Clyde Drexler. Magic Johnson Quot what you try to do is minimize the was he can beat you. To. Do that you need a lot of help and you try to make him work for everything he gets offensively and make him work on the defensive Quot the matchup switches when the blazers Are on offence. Drexler is guarded by James worthy while Johnson guards Jerome Kersey or Cliff Robinson. That makes the offence of Kersey and Robinson crucial to the blazers Hopes of making a second straight trip to the Aba finals. A. Count on the blazers to go to the Small Forward on Dale use often to keep Johnson Busy. A it makes him work defensively so he does no to do a lot of standing around Quot Adelman said. A a he a a real Good defender in their team concept so if you try to keep him occupied it makes it that much More difficult for. Them.�?�, the teams have developed a heated rivalry. Their games this season have been tight begin eng with an exhibition contest in Hawaii that had the intensity of the playoffs. A a a. A it developed into a War a lakers coach Mike Dun Leavy said. A you had a lot of Pride on both sides. A lot had been written about the fact that we were old and we Hud been picked As Low As fifth in the division. I think our Guys did no to like Reading that. And think Portland Felt they had something to 1 he blazers lost that game but won the regular sea son series 3-2, including two overtime wins on the lakers court. The teams Are full of respect for each other a i think a lot of people expected it to come to this. 1 hey were picked to win the Western conference and we were the team that had been there and was hoping to retain it a Dunleavy said. A they proved too much for us during the regular season and they deserved to win the Pacific division. But have a Chance to change it All Portland which had the Best record in the league at 63-19, has the Home court advantage throughout the playotes. But the lakers handed the blazers one of their live Home court losses in the regular season. Quot the rivalry has reached new Heights a Drexler said especially Tor the blazers hopefully we can keep things going. Los Angeles is still very much a Good team. It s one that we respect highly a
