European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 the stars and stripes saturday August 24, 1991blue jays by the associated press Toronto a not a whole lot is going right for the Blue jays these Days. On thursday night it was the bullpen a turn to fail. . Surhoff got four hits and singled Home the tying run during a five run rally in the seventh inning sending the Brewers Over the Blue jays 8-7. Milwaukee won for the eighth time in 10 games. Toronto a loss Cut its Lead in the Al East to one game Over Idle Detroit and 3vi Over Boston a 7-6 Winner Over Cleveland thursday night. A the positives were that we scored seven runs and had really aggressive base running a interim manager Gene Tenace said. A but we be been inconsistent. One night we get hitting one night we get pitching or the defense malfunctions. Its called a Little  Tenace is managing in place of Cito Gaston who missed his second straight game because of a bad Back. He a expected to be out for at least a week. The Blue jays took a 6-3 Lead into the seventh but reliever Duane Ward 5-5 gave up a one out single to Willie Randolph and walked Darryl Hamilton. Robin Yount and Greg Vaughn hit consecutive rib singles and surhoff a single off Bob Macdonald made it 6-All. With two outs Jim Gantner and Bill Spiers hit run scoring singles. John Olerud brought the Blue jays Back to within one run in the Bottom of the seventh with a Solo Homer. Mike Ignasiak making his major league debut pitched 2vy innings for the Victory. Doug Henry pitched two innings striking out the Side in the ninth for his fifth save. Devon Whites Solo Home run his 10th, put Toronto ahead 4-3 in the fourth. Ignasiak gave up Greg Myers two run Homer in the  demote Lee Layana to Nashville Cincinnati a first baseman Terry Lee and reliever Tim Layana who have blasted the Cincinnati reds front office this season for letting them languish in the minors were optioned Back to class aaa Nashville on thursday. The reds gave right handed reliever Steve Foster his first major league promotion Catling him up from Nashville to replace Layana. They also promoted outfielder Reggie Sanders from class a Chattanooga to take Leeds spot. Lee was returned to Nashville just three Days after the reds called him up. Lie appeared in just two games going i for 3 with a pair of strikeouts. When he arrived monday Lee complained that head spent the whole season at Nashville. He suggested someone in the front office does no to like him. Manager Lou Piniella said thursday he disagreed with the comments but they weren to the reason for his Ipi ick demotion. A i saw the statements. That was t the reason Quot Piniella said. A the reason is we re a Little banged  league in other games thursday night. Athletics 2, Angels 1 Oakland Calif. Bob Welch pitched a four hitter and Mike Gallego homered As the athletics completed a three game sweep. Oakland Winner of four straight Overall took 12 of 13 from California this year including the last nine. The a a remained six games behind the front running twins in the Al West following Minnesota a 5 4 Victory Over Seattle in 10 innings. Welch 11-8 struck out seven and walked two in pitching his seventh Complete game of the season. Welch who improved his  10-1 lifetime against the Angels including 3-0 this year lost the shutout in the ninth inning on Wally Joyner a 19th Homer but Welch finished the game with two strikeouts and a routine Fly Ball. After giving up the second of two singles in the second inning Welch retired 14 straight before allowing a Lead off single to Dave Parker in the seventh. He then walked Lance Parrish but got out of the Jam by getting Bobby Rose on a fielders Choice grounder fanning Shawn Abner and getting Dave Gallagher on an infield Popup. Rangers 4, royals 2 Kansas City to. A Pitcher Tom Gordon a three base throwing error enabled the rangers to score the tie breaking run in the eighth inning and they went of to beat the royals. A Julio Franco opened the eighth with a single and Rafael Palmeiro followed with a bouncer in front of the Mound. Gordon 911 threw wildly past first base allowing Franco to score for a 3-2 Lead and Ruben Sierra hit an rib double. Tom Brunansky bends Over bullpen Wall chasing a Homer by Cleveland a Carlos Baerga. Braves Cut . Lead to 2 by the associated press Cincinnati a Charlie Leibrandt and Brian Hunter sent the Atlanta braves Home Happy. Leibrandt pitched eight effective innings and Hunter hit a two Hurt single and a Solo hour or thursday night As the second place braves beat Cincinnati 4-1 to Complete a successful Road trip. Atlanta won three of four at riverfront stadium to head Home just two games behind los Angeles in the no West. The braves went 7-4 on a Road trip that included a West coast swing losing just a half game Overall on the dodgers. The braves return Home 12 games Over .500 66-54 for the first Lime since 1984. A we really helped ourselves on this trip a said Leibrandt 12-11quot some of the Guys in this clubhouse thought we should have overtaken the dodgers on this trip. That a not the Way its done. You hold your own on the Road and we  the defending world series Champion reds find themselves in a Ricc a that a dropped them to fourth place a season High 10 games Back of . They won the first game of the series against Atlanta convincingly then fell Back into their second Hall Quot rut. A a thai a typical of our club this year Quot outfielder Glenn Braggs said. A we came out like gangbusters then got a butt kicking the next three games. Leibrandt and Hunter kicked More dirt on them thursday night. Leibrandt won his third consecutive Start by limiting the reds to Joe Oliver National league seventh Homer. The left hander has Given up just three earned runs in his last four starts covering 29 innings. Jim Clancy relieved after Leibrandt gave up his sixth hit to Start the ninth. Clancy got his sixth  retiring the three batters he faced. A a in Mon a Little bit of a Roll a Leibrandt said. A i Felt confident coming in. 1 had been struggling so this is a Nice  Scott Scudder 4-4 doomed himself by giving up five walks in his five innings setting up Atlanta s runs. David Justice opened the fourth with a walk advanced on Greg Olson a group Dout and scored when Rafael Belliard singled to Center with two out for a 1-1 tie. It was Only Belliardo a second rib since july 19 and his 32nd Overall. Scudder gave up a Lead off single to Otis Nixon in the fifth and walked Ron Gant and Justice with two out to Load the bases. Hunter who flied out with the bases loaded in the first lined a two run single past diving third baseman Chris Sabo who could Only get the tip of his Glove on the Ball. A a a in other games thursday night mets 6, cardinals 0 new York Dwight Gooden struggled through five scoreless innings be Quot leaving with tightness in his right fore shoulder and the mets went on to beat the cardinals. Charlie of Brien who mostly catches when Gooden pitches had three hits including a two run Homer off Bob Tewksbury 8-9 in the sixth inning. It was of Briens first Home run since sept. 24, 1989, while with Milwaukee. Gooden 13-7 gave up three hits five walks and struck out five before being relieved by Pete Schourek to Start the sixth. The mets said Gooden left the game for precautionary reasons and the problem was not thought to be serious. Gooden has won six of his last seven decisions. Giants 11, astros 8 Houston a Jose Uribe broke out of an 0 for 12 slump with a career High five hits and four runs scored As san Francisco beat Houston to win a series at the Astrodome for the first time since september 1988. Jeff Brantley 5-2 pitched two innings and struck out four and Dave Righetti got the last four outs for his 20th save. Darryl Kile 5-8 was the  on an Central european Tima television tape delayed baseball a Minnesota at Baltimore 9 10 . Saturday Little league world series championship Midnight. Preseason football a Buffalo at Chicago 3 . Sunday _ radio baseball a Chicago at Cleveland 7 30 . Saturday los Angeles at St. Louis 2 . Sunday