European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 29, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 the stars and stripes wednesday May 29,1991rangers run Victory Streac to 14by the associated press Arlington Texas a Minnesota manager Tony Kelly sees a Little of the 1927 Yankees in the Texas rangers. Well at least some of the numbers look similar. Lets see Brian Downing is hitting .389, Juan Gonzalez .355 and Rafae Palmeiro .331. As a team the rangers Are batting .294, for the record the 1927 Yankees hit .307. It Texas came Home and stayed hot by winning its 14th straight game As Gonza ice and Julio Franco each drove i american league three runs to help the rangers rout Minnesota 11-4 on monday night. Palmeiro added three of Texas 15 hits a the 11th straight game in which the rangers have had at least 10 hits. Texas is hitting .318 during the winning Streak. A a in be Nevei seen a team with an offence like this team a rangers manager Bobby Valentine said the ittle things Are happening and the big things Are  Streak has brought the rangers from sixth Dace and 5$ games Back to first place a a game Over Oakland. Texas returned Home after winning six straight in Minnesota and Seattle. Again the rangers won despite a shaky performance from their starting Pitcher. Kevin Brown 4-3 gave up three earned runs on six hits in five innings. Brown who had to work out of jams in each inning walked five and struck out two while throwing 90 pitches Only 49 for strikes. Kirby Puckett went 4 for 5 for the twins. It other games Yankees 6, red sox 5 new York a Mel Halls second a Homer of the game a three run shot off new Yorkus Don Mattingly dives into second base for a double beating the tag of red sox shortstop Luis Rivera. Boston Relief Ace Jeff Reardon in the last of the ninth inning lifted new York Over the red sox to extend the Yankees winning Streak to five games. A Hensley meulens led off the ninth with a single and Kevin Maas followed with a line drive off Reardon a Glove for another single before Hall hit his seventh Homer Down the right Field  Lee Guetterman 1-0the fourth Yankee Pitcher worked a witless ninth for the Victory. Reardon fell to 0-1. A royals 6, mariners 3, Seattle George Brett a single in the sixth inning drove m the go ahead run and tied him with Lou Gehrig for 38th place on the All time hit list As Kansas City won its third straight game. The royals have won five of their last six games including three of four under manager Hal Mcrae. The Seattle new mariners lost their sixth straight game for the second time this season. Tigers 15, Brewers 9 Milwaukee a Milt Cuyler a three run double highlighted Detroit a seven run i4th inning As the tigers beat Milwaukee at county stadium. The tigers have won seven of their last 11. The Brewers had 18 hits and the tigers 13 As the teams played for 5 hours. 37 minutes Mike Henneman 5-1 pitched the last three innings for the Victory indians 3, orioles 2 Baltimore Beau Allred hit the tie breaking Homer in the sixth inning As visiting Cleveland kept Baltimore manager Johnny Oates wingless. Baltimore has lost five straight a four of them under Oates who took Over for Frank Robinson on thursday. The orioles 13-28 record is the worst in the major  Baller Tom Candiotti 6-2 allowed seven hits and walked two in seven innings for the Victory. Bob Milacki 1-2 was the loser. Hitters by Dick Brinster the associated press a a los Angeles a Orel Hershiser is returning to see if he can regain the form that made him a by Young award Winner. Ramon Martinez seems headed in that direction As baseball s biggest Winner where does that leave Mike Morgan he May be the forgotten Ace of the los Angeles dodgers Brilliant pitching staff but he leads the league in earned run average. 1 a Amorgan 5-4whose Era fell to 2.01, had a season a High eight strikeouts and walked none while allowing six hits in eight innings monday night As the dodgers beat the i Louston astros 4-1. Being overshadowed by his teammates is not a concern of the 31-year-old right hander. He a simply glad to be on the Mound at All. A the Only thing i was upset about was my hip injury in the Winter a he said a i did no to know if i was going to pitch this  a. He did but did no to get much respect after the exhibition season. A a i was t too Happy coming out of the Spring As the fifth starter but 1 was Happy just being part of a team that was being picked to win it a Morgan said. A we Haven to really even played great baseball yet and we re in first place a and Likely to stay there if Hershiser can make u Back from reconstructive shoulder surgery that sidelined him for a year and Martinez continues to pitch Well after an 8-1 Start on the heels of a 20-6 record last season. A Hershiser starts wednesday night against Houston. National league 11 to it Eddie Murray who has eight Bis in his last four games drove in the 1,400th run of his career for the dodgers.1 the Only run Morgan allowed was Steve Finley a third Home run with two out in the eighth. Jin other memorial Day games _. Expos 87 Phillies 1 a Philadelphia a Ivan Calderon a _ just minute starter had two Home runs and five Bis As Montreal snapped a five game losing Streak. _ Chris Nabholz 2-3 allowed three hits in six innings to hand the Phillies their fourth straight defeat. He struck out six and walked one. A i at Combs 2-3 allowed five runs on three hits a including a three in Homer by Calderon in the first a and a hit batsman in in innings. A braves 3, padres 1 san Diego a Steve Avery pitched seven Strong innings and Ron Gant Horn ered on the game s first pitch for visiting Atlanta. Avery 6-2 won for the fourth time in five starts the loss a 7-2 setback to the padres on wednesday in Atlanta. He allowed six hits struck out seven and walked three. Mets 3, cubs 1 Chicago a Howard Johnson and Hubie Brooks hit Home runs to help new York beat Chicago handing cubs manager Jim Essian his first Joss in six games since replacing Don Zimmer. Essian took Over wednesday and the cubs won two games in new York before Gians base ranncr�tuvpsxt�1�?T/ reds stl0r,s, Freddie Benavid o die play in the second inning of mondays 3-2 Victory. Maas in incr r he tries to Complete a sweeping a three game weekend series at Home against Montreal a Quot reds 3, giants 2 san Francisco a Eric Davis Horn ered before being ejected and Rob Dibble remained unblemished in Relief As Cincinnati handed san Francisco its 12th loss in 16 games. Davis whose seventh Homer broke a 1-1 in the fourth inning was Jet Bruce Froemming after arguing a it third strike in the eighth. Davis rest by coaches Sam Ferlozza and Tony f  his batting helmet in Froeman direction Dibble relieved Jose Rijo 4-2 an ?1s i2liltsayc t0 tie Lee Smith of St. Tor the National league Lead