European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 16, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 b the stars and stripes Friday August 16, 1991 Streak to 7 by the associated press Milwaukee a not since their collapse of 1987, when they blew a 3v-game Lead in the final week of the season have the Toronto Blue jays found Victory so elusive. The Blue jays continued to falter wednesday night losing their seventh straight game when the Milwaukee Brewers behind right hander Chris Bosio beat them 53. Toronto lost seven straight since the Tail end american league of the 1987 season,3when Detroit overtook the Blue jays and won the Al East. A we just have to ride it out win a game and maybe wet turn it around a said Toronto manager Cito Gaston whose team leads Detroit by two games. The tigers lost to Chicago 9-8 wednesday night. Toronto a loss was Milwaukee a gain. The Brewers with their ninth Victory in 11 games crawled Back to 10 games of .500. Bosio went seven innings for his first Victory Over Toronto since sept. 29,1987. The Brewers less than 10 games out of first for the first time since july 2, were Able to overcome their own shaky Fielding in the Blue jays three run third inning. Milwaukee committed two errors in that inning. Milwaukee got two sacrifice flies in the fifth for a 4-3 Lead off Davia Wells who lost his fourth straight Start and added another run in the seventh. Bosio 9-8 allowed one earned run and seven hits in seven innings As he ended a six game losing Streak against Toronto. Doug Henry pitched two perfect innings for his i Hird save. Wells 12 j gave up four runs and nine hits in six plus innings. Milwaukee took a 4-3 Lead in the fifth. Billy Spiers Bostons Jody Reed slides hard into second but fails to keep Carlos Baerga from completing a double play. And Willie Randolph had bunt singles and Paul Molitor singled to Lead the bases. Robin Yount and Greg Vaughn then hit sacrifice flies. Yount hit a liner off reliever Davie Weathers Glove in the seventh and Weathers throw to the plate was too late to get Molitor who scored from third with the fifth run. In other Gumes wednesday Angels 7f twins 4 Minneapolis a Dave Winfield ended a l-for-27 slump with his 400th career Home run and Wally Joyner hit another two run Homer off David West 3-3. Winfield moved into 23rd place on the All time list passing a1 Kaline. Winfields two Rols gave him 1,580 and moved him past Rogers Hornsby into 19th place on that list. Kirk Mccaskill 9-15 won for the second time in 10 starts since june 25, allowing three runs and eight hits in five innings. Whits sox 9, tigers 8 Detroit a Mike Huff broke a 7-7 tie in the eighth with a two run double As Chicago closed to Ivi games of first place Minnesota in the Al West. Cecil fielder had two Bis and became the first player to reach 100 this season. Scott Radinsky 4-3the third of four White sox pitchers threw Ivi innings and Bobby Thigpen got six outs for his 27th save. Paul Gibson 5-7 was the loser. Royals 5, Yankees 1 new York a Danny Tartabull hit a grand slam off former Royal Steve Farr 3-3 in the 11th inning and Kansas City won for the ninth time in 10 games. Tartabull a Homer was his 25th this year and his seventh career grand slam. It was the royals team record sixth grand slam this sea Sofi. Tom Gordon 9-10the royals third Pitcher threw three innings of one hit Relief. Brian Mcrae went 0 for 5, sliding the american leagues longest hitting Streak of the year at 22 games. Red sox 2, indians 1 Cleveland a Joe Hesketh won for the fifth time in six decisions and Tony Pena hit a go ahead sacrifice Fly in the seventh As Boston won for the sixth time in seven games. Hesketh 7-2 allowed one run and six hits in seven innings struck out three and walked one. Jeff Reardon pitched the ninth giving him 30 saves for a record sixth season. Greg Swindell 7-11 allowed two runs and eight hits in 7w innings. Orioles 10, rangers 2 Baltimore a Mike Mussina 1-2 got his first major league Victory striking out 10 and allowing three hits in eight innings. Chito Martinez another Rookie homered twice for the orioles who won their fourth straight. Gerald Alexander 5-3 gave up seven runs and seven hits in 2vi innings for the  hurls by reds 4-1 by the associated press los Angeles a Tim Belcher was the winning Pitcher for the first time in what seemed like an eternity and he Felt like celebrating afterwards. But there was nothing to celebrate with. A i told somebody t should have Champagne instead of a diet Coke a a Belcher said after allowing five hits in seven innings wednesday night As the los Angeles dodgers beat the Cincinnati reds 4-1 to extend their no West Lead Over Atlanta to \ i games. A sometimes its not enough just to pitch Well a Belcher said. A the idea is to pitch better than the other Guy on a Given  Belcher 8-7 pitched better than the other Guy a Cincinnati Rookie to Sanford a until he ran into trouble in the eighth. But John Candelaria bailed him out and Jay Howell pitched a scoreless ninth for his 12th save. Belcher who walked three and struck out seven entered the game with an 0-3 record and four no decisions in his previous seven starts. Belcher who Hadnot won since beating Pittsburgh on june 23, had a 3-1 Lead when he was relieved by Candelaria after Herm Winningham and Hal Morris began the eighth with  league while Candelaria was pitching to Einch hitter Chris Jones the reds tried a it and run play which backfired when Jones swung and missed and Winningham was thrown out by a wide margin at third. Candelaria then struck out Jones and retired Bill Doran on a grounder to first to end the inning. The dodgers took a 1-0 Lead in the first when Sanford 1-1 issued one out walks to Juan Samuel and Kal Daniels and Darryl Strawberry followed with a broken Bat rib single. The dodgers got their other runs in the second a the first on Brett Butler s two out rib single and the second when right fielder Paul of Neill fumbled the hit allowing Jose Offerman who had been running on the pitch to score All the Way from first. Of Neill hit a 1-0 pitch from Belcher Over the right Field Fence in the fourth to Complete the scoring. In other games wednesday pirates 5, Phillies 3 Pittsburgh a Pittsburgh beat Philadelphia for the 14th straight time thanks to run scoring doubles by Bobby Bonilla and Barry Bonds and a Homer saving catch from Bonds. John Kruks first inning Homer off John Smiley 14-8 helped the Phillies take a 3-0 Lead. But after striking out seven times in the first three innings against Tommy Greene 8-5the pirates scored four times in the fourth on rib singles by Andy Van Slyke and Bonds sandwiched around Bonillas two run double. Bonds a Gold Glove outfielder preserved the Lead by reaching Over the left Field Wall to Rob Kruk of a two run Homer in the  5, Mats 4 St. Louis a Ray Lankford a two run triple capped a three run eighth inning As St. Louis sent the mets to their sixth straight loss. Milt Thompson led off the eighth with a walk and Tom Pagnozzi singled through shortstop on a hit and run play to put runners at the Corners and Chase starter David Cone. Jose Oquendo followed with a run scoring single off John Franco 2-7 and one out later Lankford hit his league leading uth triple giving the cardinals their 28th come from behind Victory. Reliever Cris Carpenter 8-3the third St. Louis Pitcher worked out of a none out bases loaded Jam in the eighth for the Victory. Lee Smith worked the ninth for his league leading 30th save. Its his sixth 30-save season tying a major league Mark set earlier wednesday by Bostons Jeff  4, astros 1 san Diego Fred Mcgriff hit his second grand slam in two games tying a major league record and Dennis Rasmussen snapped a personal nine game losing Streak As san Diego beat Houston. Mcgriff hit a 3-2 pitch from Jim de shares 4-10 Over the Fence in right Center in the first inning to become the 13th player to hit grand slams in consecutive games and the first since Milwaukee a Rob Deer did it on aug. 19-20, 1987. Rasmussen 4-10 won for the first time since beating Chicago on june 15.j expos 2, cubs 0 Chicago a Rookie Brian Barnes allowed Only two hits in 8w innings As Montreal beat Chicago for its second straight Victory. Barnes 3-4 retired 14 batters in a Row in one stretch before walking his fourth Batter George Bell with one out in the ninth. Barry Jones got the last two outs for his ninth save