European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 29, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 22 a the stars and stripes thursday August 29, 1991jays regain slim Al East Lead by the associated press Baltimore a Juan Guzman avenged his Only two major league losses and kept Toronto in first place tuesday night. Guzman who Hasni to lost since june 15, pitched his first Complete game in the majors and Devon White continued his hot hitting As the Blue jays Defeated the orioles 61. Toronto a fourth Victory in five games moved the Blue jays one game ahead of Detroit in the Al East. Toronto started the Day tied with the tigers who lost a 4-2 decision to the California Angels. After his first two games in the majors both against Baltimore Guzman was 0-2 with a 8.31 Era. But he Hasni to lost since. A Guzman 5-2 gave up five hits hit a Batter struck out eight and walked none. He is 3-0 Over his last 11 starts. White homered doubled hit a sacrifice Fly and drove in three runs. He is batting .391 with four homers and nine Bis in his last six games with at least one rib in each contest. The orioles Joe Orsulak went 0-for-4, ending his hitting Streak at 21 games. The Blue jays took a 1-0 Lead against Rookie Arthur Rhodes 0-2 in the first inning when White doubled took third on a flout by Roberto Alomar and scored on a grounder by Carter his first rib in nine games. Toronto pulled away in the second scoring three runs on Only one hit. Rhodes opened the inning with nine straight balls and eventually walked the bases loaded. Pat Borders singled in a run and Manuel Lee followed with a run scoring grounder before White hit a sacrifice Fly. Baltimore made it 4-1 in the third when Bob Melvin sin Juan Guzman american league led and scored on a two out double by Mike Devereaux who was thrown out trying to stretch the hit into a triple. White hit his 13th Homer in the fourth after Pat Tabler walked. Rhodes making his second major league Start left after the fourth. All four of his walks turned into runs. In other games tuesday Angels 4, tigers 2 Anaheim Calif. A Chuck Finley won his 16th game to tie for the major league Lead and struck out a season High 10 As California beat Detroit to drop the tigers into second place in the Al East. Detroit managed Only four hits in 6% innings against Finley 16-7before the left hander was forced out by a blood Blister on the Middle Finger of his pitching hand. His first Home Victory since july 14, equated the 16 wins by Detroit a Bill Gullickson Minnesota a Scott Erickson and Atlanta a Tom Glavine. Lance Parrish and Junior Felix snapped a scoreless tie in the third with consecutive two out rib singles against John Cerutti 2-5 indians 2, twins 1 Cleveland a Greg Swindell working with an extra Days rest gave up one run in 8% innings and Carlos Martinez singled Home the go ahead run in the eighth inning As Cleveland beat Minnesota. The win was the indians first in nine games against the first place twins this season. Swindell 8-12 gave up five hits struck out six and walked none before Steve Olin got the last out for his eighth save. Jack Morris 15-10 took the loss allowing two runs and 11 hits in 7% innings. Royals 3, White sox 2 Kansas City  a Chicago 24 hours after being no hit by Bret Saberhagen was held to six hits by two royals pitchers and Harvey Pulliam hit one outside and one inside the Park Homer. Mark Davis 4-1a one time Relief Ace making an emergency Start for the injured Luis Aquino gave up three hits in six innings including Carlton Fisk a two run Homer. Tom Gordon pitched the last three innings for his first  7, Yankees 2 new York a Ruben Sierra Juan Gonzalez and Steve Buechele each homered to Lead Texas past new York. Sierras sixth inning Homer his 18th, was a three run drive into the upper deck in right Field that put Texas ahead 3-2. Gonzalez hit his 26th and Buechele his 18th, each with a runner aboard. Jose Guzman 9-5 allowed six hits in 6% innings for the Victory and Kenny Rogers finished with 216 scoreless innings for his fourth  sox 6, athletics 4 Oakland Calif. A the athletics lost their fifth straight game As Carlos Quintana had three hits including a Home run and two Bis for Boston. The red sox tagged five Oakland pitchers for seven extra base hits a six doubles and a Homer a As they beat the a a for the eighth time in 11 meetings this season. Bob Welch 11-9 was tagged for five runs and seven hits in 2vi innings his shortest Outing of the season. In his last four starts Welch is 1-3 with a 5.82 Era. Mike Gardiner 6-6 was the  6, Brewers 4 Seattle a Edgar Martinez hit two homers and Ken Griffey or. Had four hits As Seattle beat Milwaukee for its ninth straight Victory Over the Brewers at the kingdom. Griffey improved his batting average five Points to ,.329 with a double and three singles. Seattle Rookie Rich Delucia 11-8 got a 3-0 Lead in the second inning against Don August 9-6. He went 6% innings to go 2-0 against the Brewers this season. Dunston s Homer a. O defeats dodgers p hot by the associated press Chicago a Rookie Frank Castillo just off the disabled list needed some time to Warmup. Shawon Dunston however just stayed hot. Castillo activated earlier tuesday pitched a three hitter for his fourth com Lete game and Dunston hit a two run Lomer in the fifth in the cubs 2-1 Victory Over the dodgers. The defeat coupled with Atlanta a 3-2 Victory later Over Montreal left the dodgers and the braves tied for first place in the National league West. The dodgers took sole Possession of first place on May 18. A i struggled with my change up in the Early innings but i found the Groove around the fifth inning a said Castillo 52who had been sidelined for 15 Days with a strained right shoulder. He had seven strikeouts and two walks. Dunston homered off Ramon Martinez 15-9 in the fifth inning to provide All the support Castillo needed. Dunston a 10th Homer followed Luis Salazar a single and extended his hitting Streak to 13 games. Martinez trying to join Atlanta a Tom Glavine As a 16-game Winner lost for the fourth time in his last five decisions. In other games tuesday pirates 5, padres 2 Pittsburgh Zane Smith benefited from four double plays Over 8% innings and Barry Bonds had two Bis for Pittsburgh. Andy Van Slyke added a Solo Homer As the division leading pirates won for the third time in four games. Bonds went 2-for-3, scored once and drove in two of the pirates first three runs with an rib single in the first and a sacrifice Fly in the third both against Ricky Bones 1-3. Roger Mason got Pinch hitter Jack Howell to Fly out Tor his first save since sept. 29, 1984, when he was with  league Ricky Bones 1-3 took the  4, Phillies 2 Cincinnati a Scott Scudder pitched Well and torrid Mariano Duncan drove in three runs with three hits for Cincinnati. Scudder 5-4 gave up just two singles and Dale Murphy a 16th Nomer in seven innings improving his record to 2-1 since coming off the disabled list. Ted Power left the game after taking a line drive off his pitching hand with two out in the eighth and Rob Dibble gave up a run scoring single to Darren Daulton in the ninth before getting his 26th save. Eric Davis starting for the first time in a month opened the reds second with a double to  Bruce Ruffin 3-5. One out later Duncan tripled into the left Field Corner for a 1-0  5, giants 4 St. Louis a Felix Jose who earlier broke out of an 0-for-26 slide hit a sacrifice Fly in the eighth inning for the surging cardinals. St. Louis won its fifth straight its longest unbeaten Streak since june 7-11,1989. It was san Francisco a third straight loss. Ozzie Smith and Todd Zeile singled to Start the cardinals eighth against Don Robinson 5-9. A Pedro Guerrero then forced Zeile with a grounder on which the giants just missed a double play. Jose who earlier had singled followed with a towering Fly to right As Smith scored easily from third  8, mets 3 Houston a Ken Caminiti hit his career High 12th hone run of the season and drove m three runs leading the astros past new York. A Darryl Kile 6-8 went six innings giving up two runs on six hits. Wally Whitehurst 5-10 dropped his fifth consecutive decision. . Residents sparkle in world track meet by Michael Janofsky Tokyo not the 800-meter Gold medallist lives in new Mexico. The new 400-meter hurdles Champion attends school in Alabama. The Winner of the 200-meter final lives in Texas. Six of the eight finalists in the women a 100-meter dash were former Mcaa sprint champions. Yes it was quite a Day at the world track and Field championships on tuesday for the United states and for foreign athletes with . Ties even if american athletes claimed just three of the 21 medals awarded. This was a melting pot Celebration at its finest and testament to what proper facilities Good weather and a College scholarship can do for an athlete no matter where he grew up. Among the native Boms Michael Johnson of Waco Texas had the night of his career. After two years of proving himself As the worlds Best runner at 200 and 400 meters he gained his first major title by winning the menus 200-meter final in 20.01 seconds. His time was the fastest in the world this year and his margin of Victory was the largest in a major championship since Jesse Owens smoked Mack Robinson in the 1936 olympics by seven tenths of a second. Frank Fredericks of Namibia and Brigham Young University fell behind Johnson Halfway through the race and never recovered finishing second in 20.34, and Atlee Mahon of Canada Johnson was next in 20.49. A a in be been working for this for a Long time a Johnson said. The other successful americans were Gwen Torrence who closed Well in the women a 100 to finish second behind Kristin Krabbe of Germany but ahead of Merlene Ottey of Jamaica and Mark Everett who was third in the 800 behind Billy Konchellah of Kenya and Jose Luis Barbosa of Brazil. Kon Cellah a Victory was probably the most surprising of the week. The 29-year-old defending Champion has spent nearly 11 Vears living in los Angeles and recently in Albuquerque . But he has been virtually absent from International track since Rome fighting injuries and asthma. During his comeback this year 22 athletes had posted better times than his Best. But on tuesday night he showed no effects of anything surging to overtake Barbosa with about 20 meters to go for an impressive Victory in 1 minute 43.99 seconds. Barbosa a time was 1 44.24 Everett a 1 44.67. Samuel Matte a 23-year-old native of Zambia brought his country its first medal Ever at the championships by winning the 400-meter hurdles in 47.64 seconds. With Winthrop Graham of Jamaica second 47.74 and Kriss a Abusi of Britain third 47.86it was the first time in a major Competition since the 1968 olympics that a u. S. Athlete did not win a medal in the event. The americans a Kevin Young Danny Harris and Derrick Adkins a finished fourth fifth and sixth. Matte also has Strong american ties once attending a Junior College in Texas before transferring to Auburn University. Wednesday was a rest Day at the world championships