European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 11, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 22 b the stars and stripes sunday August 11, 1991giants Edge dodgers in 13th by the associated press san Francisco Kevin Gross pitch hit Kevin Mitchell with the bases loaded to Force Home the games Only run in the 13th inning As the san Francisco giants beat the los Angeles dodgers 1-0 Friday night. The win was the giants 11th straight at candlestick Park and snapped the dodgers three game winning Steak. San Francisco and Atlanta both gained ground on the first place dodgers. The second place braves Are 31/ games behind and Quot the fourth place giants arc eight Back. Jeff Brantley 3-3the fourth giant Pitcher escaped a one out basis loaded Jam in the top of the 13th. Darryl Strawberry Drew an intentional walk to Load the bases but Brantley got Eddie Murray to foul out and Gary Carter grounded out to second. Greg Litton began the Bottom of the 13th with a double off Gross 6-h. Dar National league Ren Lewis sacrificed him to third and reached on Murray a throwing error. Willie Mcgee struck out and will Clark was intentionally walked to Load the bases. Gross first pitch hit Mitchell in the Side As he tried to avoid it and drove in the winning run. Tim Belcher Quot and Trevor Wilson matched zeroes until the ninth when Francisco Oliveras came on in Relief for the giants. In other games Friday a cardinals 5, pirates 1 Pittsburgh a Bryn Smith gave up three hits Ove of 7w innings for his a Khz major league Victory and St. Louis continued Pittsburgh a slide getting a two run Homer from Todd Zeile. Pittsburgh which was 60-34 on july 27, has lost 11 of its last 13 games a including four of five to St. Louis Over the last two weekends a to fall to 62-45.braves 7, astros 2 Atlanta a Steve Avery won his fifth straight decision and Ron Gant hit his 24th Home run leading Atlanta past Houston. Avery gave up seven hits and two runs in 7>/i innings to improve to 13-5. Juan Berenguer  5, mets 4 Chicago a Greg Maddux triggered a three run rally with a bunt single and won his fourth straight game with a seven hitter As Chicago Defeated new York. Maddux 10-6who had held the mets witless from the third to the ninth innings had to survive a two run rally by the mets in the  5, padres 1 san Diego a to Sanford was overpowering in his major league debut allowing Only two hits and striking out eight in seven innings As the reds beat san Diego to end a three game losing Streak. Sanford struck out the Side in the first inning retired the padres in order in the second and allowed Only four baserunners. The padres run was unearned. Sanford who walked Only one was relieved by Rob Dibble starting the  5, expos 4 Philadelphia the Philadelphia Phillies won their Toth straight game As Dickie thongs sacrifice Fly in the eighth inning snapped a tie to beat Montreal. Its the Phillies longest winning Streak since they also won to in a Row in 1984. John Kruk walked to Start the eighth against reliever Dave Wainhouse 0-1. Alter Dale Murphy struck out Charlie Hayes singled. When Center fielder Dave Martinez fumbled the Ball for an error Kruk reached third and Hayes second. Randy ready walked to Load the bases and1 Thon then hit his sacrifice Fly. By the associated press Anaheim Calif. Terry Steinbach drove in three runs with a pair of doubles and Jose Canseco Home red As the Oakland athletics beat the California Angels 5-4 Friday night Dave Stewart 9-6 earned his first Victory in four starts and his first Road Triumph since july 3 at Texas. Me allowed four runs and eight hits struck out three and walked four. The right hander improved his career record against California to 13-5 with help from Rick Honeycutt and Dennis american league Eckersley who increased his major league leading save total to 31 with one inning of witless Relief. Dave Parker a three run Homer with two out in the sixth inning narrowed the Gap to 5-4. It could have been the equalizer but Steinbach threw out Luis Polo Nia at second after a Lead off walk. Donnie Hill and Wally Joyner preceded Parker a 111h Homer with consecutive singles. Canseco ignited a three run third inning against Kirk Mccaskill 8-15 with his 31st Home run putting him one behind Detroit s Cecil fielder for the major league Lead. Harold Baines and Slein Bach followed with consecutive doubles and Mike Gallego drove in Steinbach with a sacrifice Fly. Steinbach widened Oakland s margin to 5-1 in the fifth when he followed a pair of two out walks to Canseco and Baines with a two run double that gave him 15 Rols in his last 13 games. In other games Friday Brewers 10, rangers 8 Arlington. Texas Paul Mollor got four hits and an rib and scored four runs to Lead a 16-hit Milwaukee assault Oil five Texas pitchers. It was Milwaukee a third consecutive Road Victory the first Lime the Brewers had won three games in a Row since May 15-17. Milwaukee starter Chris Bosio left with a 7-6 Lead after five innings thanks in Greg Vaughn s sacrifice Fly in the sixth inning off loser Gerald Alexander 5-2. Bosio 8-8 gave up seven hits and six runs for the Victory. Edwin Nunez pitched the ninth for his sixth  4, indians 2 Kansas Cit a to. Danny Tana Bull returned from injury with a double and lie breaking Homer and Mark Gubicza pitched Lour hit Hall Over eight innings leading Kansas City past Cleveland for the royals a lilt Victory in 12 games. Tartabull who had missed eight games with a bruised Heel doubled off Greg Swindell 7-10 in his first at hat sinc Conseco spark a s Victory Oakland a Mike Bordick goes Hying As c Alifornia a Dave Winfield tries unsuccessfully to break up first inning double play. Aug. 2 and snapped a 2-2 tie with his 23rd Homer leading of the fourth. Gubicza 7-5 walked one and struck out five. Notching his fourth straight Victory and first Over Cleveland in almost three years he retired 20 of 21 halters. Jeff Montgomery pitched the ninth for his 23rd save a a red sox 12, Blue jays 7 Toronto Carlos Quintana drove in Lour runs with two homers and two singles to a Pace a 21-hit attack and Jack Clark reached base six straight times As Boston out slugged Toronto. Quot Quintana whose first inning Homer snapped a string of 19 consecutive scoreless innings for Boston hit a two run shot in a three run eighth and added a run scoring single in the ninth As the red sox snapped a four game losing Streak Clark who followed Quintana s first mining Homer with his 20th of the season scored four runs and drove in two. Clark reached base on a Homer error two walks and two singles. Twins 5, mariners 2 Seattle a David West pitched a Tive hitter for eight innings and Minnesota went ahead with a pair of unearned runs in the tilth in route to Victory Over Seattle. West 3-2 helped hand the mariners their fourth loss in a Row As Seattle a Randy Johnson 10-8 had a three game thinning Streak broken. West struck out three and walked one before getting ninth inning Relief help. Rick Aguilera got the last two outs for his 30th save after giving up an rib single to Pinch hitter Alvin  in new York new York a rain washed out Friday nights twi night doubleheader Between the Detroit tigers and new York Yankees after Only two innings were played. The teams were to play makeup doubleheaders on both saturday and sunday