European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 22, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and Stripe thursday August 22,1991 is a reds Glenn Braggs slides safely into Home past braves Catcher Francisco Cabrera in the fourth inning of the first game of their doubleheader tuesday night in  win on Thon s Homer by the associated press Philadelphia a All shortstop Dickie Thon has heard recently is that the Phillies Are looking for a Young shortstop. He answered his critics the Best Way a player can tuesday night. Thongs two out two run Homer in the ninth inning gave the Phillies a 6-5 Victory Over the pirates snapping Pittsburgh a four game winning Streak. The pirates took a 5-4 Lead in the top of the ninth on Barry Bonds rib single but reliever Stan Belinda 34  hold it. The loss sliced Pittsburgh a Lead to 6% games Over St Louis in the National league East. Dale Murphy led off the Bottom of the ninth with a single and John Morris Pinch ran. After Charlie Hayes and Darren Daulton flied out Thon hit a 1-1 Slider deep Over the left Field Wall. Quot i knew he would throw a fastball and i was looking for it a Thon said. A i got it. I think he was trying to get the Ball inside. He tried to Jam me. I knew it was gone when 1 hit it Quot Thon aware that the Phillies probably will bring up Young shortstop Kim Batiste in september and that his Days in Philadelphia might be numbered said Quot in a just trying to stay in the lineup. Every team has prospects. In be been in the game a Long time. 1 want to stay in the game. A a in a like to stay Here a Thon said he might do it if he played against Pittsburgh More often. He shitting .382 13-for-34 with seven Bis an National league has 14 career Home runs against the pirates. Reliever Steve Searcy 2-1 pitched two thirds of an inning for the Victory. John Smiley seeking his 15th Victory pitched seven innings for the pirates giving up eight nits and four runs. Wes chamberlains eighth Homer keyed a three run fifth inning rally that gave the Phillies a 4-3 Lead. Thon led off with a single and scored on Randy ready a two out triple. Chamberlain followed with his Homer a shot into the fifth level in left 421 feet  tied it 4-4 in the sixth off Tommy Greene on Jose Linda a sacrifice Fly. Greene gave up five hits in six innings. In other games tuesday reds 8-1, braves 2-5 Cincinnati a John Smoltz pitched a five hitter and improved to 7-2 since the All Star break As the braves beat the reds 5-1 in the second game of a doubleheader after losing the opener 8-2. Joe Oliver drove in five runs and Jose Rijo 9-4 allowed two runs and five hits in 7% innings As Cincinnati won the first game. Steve Avery 13-7 left the opener during a four run fifth inning because of a Blister on his pitching hand. He gave up six hits and four runs in 4% innings. In the second game Smoltz 9-13 struck out eight and walked two in his fourth Complete game. Ron Gant broke 1-1 tie with a two run double in the eighth off to Sanford 1-2 expos 4, cubs 2 Montreal a Rookie Chris Haney 2-4 gave up two runs and six hits in six innings As Montreal beat Chicago for Only the third time in 11 games against the cubs this season. Andres Galarraga had three hits including an rib single in the sixth off starter Bob Scanlon 5-6 that broke a 2-2 tie. Me Rojas the expose third Pitcher threw 2v6 innings for his first  9, astros 3 Houston a will Clark hit a grand slam in the seventh and Kevin Mitchell followed with another Home run off Rob Mallicoat As the giants rallied from a 3-0 deficit and stopped a three game losing Streak. With the score tied at 3, Dave Anderson singled and Jimmy Jones 6-8 walked Kevin Bass and Willie Mcgee. Mallicoat relieved and Clark hit his second pitch for his third career grand slam. Mitchell homered on the next pitch. Kelly Downs 10-4 won his eighth consecutive decision since june 5, pitching one inning of one hit Relief. Jeff Brantley pitched three innings for his 11th save. By the associated press Toronto a Todd Stottlemyre pitched seven Strong innings As the Al East leading Blue jays won their third straight game beating the Brewers 3-1 on tuesday night. Stottlemyre allowed one run and seven hits walking one and striking out three. Duane Ward worked a scoreless eighth and Tom Henke pitched the ninth for his 29th save in 30 chances As Toronto snapped Milwaukee a three game win Nin Streak. The Victory kept Toronto 2vi games ahead of second place Detroit which beat Chicago 5-0. The Blue jays loaded the bases with one out in the first inning off Chris Bosio 9-9 on consecutive singles by Candy Maldonado Kelly Gruber and Ranee Mulliniks. Pat Borders sacrifice Fly scored Maldonado and Manuel Leeds Bloop single drove in Gruber for a 2-0 Lead. The Brewers made it 2-1 in the fourth on . Surhoff two out Solo Homer his third of the season. Toronto added an insurance run in the eighth when John Olerud led off with a Down Brewers for 3rd straight american league walk went to second on a wild pitch and scored one out later on Grubert a single off Bosio who went All the Way allowing nine hits and two walks with three strikeouts. The game Drew 50,311 to the sky dome giving the Blue jays a season  of 3,045,640 in 62 dates the fastest any team has Ever reached the 3 million Mark. Toronto held the previous record reaching 3 million in 64 dates last  5, White sox 0 Chicago a Walt Terrell pitched his second shutout in 10 Days and Lloyd Moseby hit a Solo Homer in his return from the disabled list As the tigers remained 2vi games behind Toronto in the East. Terrell 9-10 allowed six hits walked three and struck out four. Mos by who had been out since aug. 5 with an inflamed right knee and was activated earlier in the Day homered to right off Charlie Hough 7-7 with in the  3, Angels 2 Oakland Calif. A Ron Darling out pitched Mark Langston to win his third game without a loss for Oakland. Dave Henderson singled in one run and the athletics pushed across two More with sacrifice flies to beat Langston 15-7who was attempting to become baseball a second 16-game Winner. He allowed five hits and three runs one earned in eight  3-0 held the Angels to two runs and six hits Over 7% innings and has Given up just five runs in 26% innings 1.69 Era in four starts since being acquired from the expos on july 31.yankees 7, royals 3 Kansas City to. New York scored three times on a misfired double play Ball in a four run second inning to beat Kansas City. Scott Sanderson 13-8 allowed three runs on four hits in five innings to become the first new York Pitcher to win 13 since Andy Hawkins won 15 in 1989. The Yankees loaded the bases with none out in the second against Mark Gubicza 7-7. Kevin Maas then hit a Sharp grounder to second baseman Terry Shumpert who conceded a run by trying to get a double play. But his throw to shortstop David Howard sailed into left Field. Alvaro Espinoza added an rib  8, rangers 6 Arlington Texas a Glenn Davis drove in five runs and Leo Gomez hit a tie breaking Home run in the sixth inning As Baltimore beat Texas to end a four game losing Streak. Davis activated from the disabled list on monday after missing almost four months with a neck injury had a two run double in the first inning and a game tying three run Homer in the fifth Kevin Reimer hit a three run Homer and Brian Downing a two run shot for  sox indians rained out Boston a tuesdays twi night doubleheader Between Boston and Cleveland was postponed because of rain after a delay of 2 hours 28 minutes. A twi night doubleheader was scheduled wednesday with a single game on thursday