European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 28, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes it. Ltd 7 7?. August 28,1991 Page 28 a �b9b inside sports acc Central division preview a Page 22 1991 College football schedule a Page 25 Kittany Lions seminoles favored a Page 26 Ottley a Streak ends at 56 Page 26 Angels fire Rader hire Rodgers Anaheim Calif. A the Angels who Feir from first place to last in the Al West in a month fired manager Doug Rader and replaced him with Buck Rodgers. Rodgers fired As manager by the Montreal expos on june 2, signed a three year contract on monday to take Over a team that has failed to win a division title under Rader despite the acquisition of such stars As Dave Winfield Mark Langston Gary Gaetti a Ltd Dave Parker. A this is kind of a dream come True coming Back to a place where you were born Type thing a said Rodgers a member of the original Angels in 1961. I a a there a always bitter Sweet to every managerial change. 1 got the bitter about three months ago. Its Sweet for me today. Rodgers debut monday night Wasny to so Sweet As the Detroit tigers beat the Angels 5-1 see Page 26. The Angels moved into first place by one percentage Point Over the twins with a 44-33 record on july 3, but then lost 19 of their next 27 games to fall into last place on aug. 4 with a 52-52 record. The 47-year-old Rader is the seventh manager to be fired this season while Rodgers is the first of the group to be rehired. Other managers fired this season were the indians John Mcnamara Don Zimmer of the cubs Nick Leyva of Phillies John Wathan of the royals and Frank Robinson of the orioles. Angels general manager Dan of Brien who signed a contract Extension monday through 1994, said Rader took the bad news As Well As could be expected. A i done to think he was surprised at least i did no to get that feeling a of Brien said. A the reacted very Well. He said he understood. Any other conversation he and i had was  Rader was hired before the 1989 season and made an immediate Impact As the team went from 75-87 in 1988 to 91-71and a third place finish. But last year when they were expected to Challenge the a a the Angels fell to 8qr82 and finished fourth in the Al West. And the High Hopes this season were dashed in last months collapse. The 53-year-old Rodgers played for the Angels from 1961-69. A switch hitting Catcher he was a lifetime .232 hitter. Royals Bret Saberhagen delivers a pitch in route to his no hitter against Chicago. By Doug Tucker Kansas City to. A Bret Saberhagen was due for a great year. Instead he pitched his greatest game. Saberhagen who has always followed bad seasons with very Good ones threw his first career no hitter monday night in the royals 7-0 Victory Over the Chicago White sox. A this is terrific but there will never be anything better than the world series. The world series thing was an individual award but this is a team game a Saberhagen said. Even before monday night Saberhagen a career was punctuated by big awards. He was the map of the 1985 world series and a by Young Winner in 1985 and 1989, but had never come close to a no hitter. This time he mowed Down Chicago for the seventh no hitter of the season a other games on Page 26 with the help of a controversial scoring decision in the fifth inning. With one out in the fifth inning Dan Pasqua hit a line drive that sliced away from Kirk Gibson in left Field. Gibson ran Back on an Angle toward Center jumped at the last second at the front Edge of the warning track and the Ball grazed off his Glove allowing Pasqua to reach second base. Immediately before the official scorer made his decision the hit column on the scoreboard flashed from Zero to one. But after watching several replays scorer Del Black ruled it a two base error on the poor Fielding Gibson. Saberhagen saw the scoreboard show a hit and never saw the change to an error. But when the fans cheered a you can see no hitter on Page 27 Stefan Edburg uncork a serve against Bryan  to win new York apr Ivan Lendl came Back from the Brink a wiping out a two set deficit and fighting off double match Point a to defeat 19-year-old Richard Krajicek 3-6,26,6-4,7-6 7-56-0 at the . Open tuesday. Lendl seeded fifth and struggling through a difficult summer faced the earliest open exit of his career As Krajicek Rode a rocket serve to win the first two sets. The youngster from the Netherlands sent 120 Mph serves that froze Lendl and seemed on his Way to the upset. But Lendl a finalist at the open ror eight straight years from 1982-89 and Winner of three consecutive . Titles Hung in. He won the third set and then avoided the double match Point in the fourth to Force a tiebreaker. When he won . Open 7-5, Lendl sailed into the fifth set breaking Krajicek in the first game and rolling to the Victory. The match lasted hours 36 minutes. Lendl recalled facing the double match Point. A on the first one i thought to myself that id better make this one a he said. A the was moving badly by then. On the next i wanted to make sure to push it so that he would have to move to it. It turned out to be a  that forced the fifth set. A then a Lendl said a the Sav what was what. A once i got a foot in the door i did no to wan to let him close  second seeded Stefan Edberg fought Back from trouble to it defeat unseeded Bryan Shelton 6-4,2-6,7-6 7-46-1. Edberg eliminated in the first round of the open a Yea ago was in jeopardy after dropping the second set and Trail my in the third against the Nard serving Shelton. But that swede recovered his poise and avoided the upset. The victories by Lendl and Edberg opened another Ion Day of play at the National Tennis Center. Scheduled later ii the Day were top seeded Boris Becker against Martin Jaite no. 3 Michael Stich who won Wimbledon against Jacco Al Tygh no. 4 Jim courier facing Nicklas Kulti