European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 23, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pirates Clinch no East Pittsburgh a the Pittsburgh pirates have officially ended the Pennant race that never was. The pirates became the first National league team in 13 years to win consecutive division championships beating the Philadelphia Phillies 2-1 sunday behind Doug Drabek for their eighth East division title since division play began in 1969. Unlike last year when they waited the last weekend of the season to Clinch this title came easy. The pirates took the Lead on april 27 and never gave it up building their Lead from 2vt games in late july to its current 13vi a the biggest East division runaway since the mets won by 15 in 1988. The pirates now have two full weeks to prepare for the no playoffs against either los Angeles or Atlanta Philadelphia and los Angeles in 1978 were the last no teams to repeat division titles and the Phillies were a major reason Why Pittsburgh won again losing 12 of 18 to the pirates. Just like last year when the pirates wrapped it up by winning 2-0 in St. Louis on sept. 30, Drabek 15-13 won the clincher. He wont win the by Young award again but Drabek again was the pirates Best big game Pitcher shrugging off a first inning run to improve to 10-4 lifetime against Philadelphia. When Drabek struck out Charlie Hayes to end the game he was charged by his teammates As the pirates celebrated near the Mound. A crowd of 33,662 also stayed on after the final out. As they have All season the pirates won with pitching defense and big Bis by the killer bus of Barry Bonds and Bobby Bonilla. Drabek allowed seven hits striking out seven and walking none As the pirates clinched a division title at Home for the first time since they edged Montreal on the final Day of the 1979 season. Drabek escaped a Jam in the ninth when the Phillies had a runner on third and one out. The pirates 32 games Over .500 for the Firat time in 12 years have the most division titles 8 of any no East team. The stars and stripes september 23,1991 c Page 32 red sox trim Toronto Lead to half game Bull dogging a vol quarterback Mississippi stale a Nate Williams sacks Tennessee quarterback Andy Kelly for a 7-Yard loss in a game at Knoxville which the volunteers won 26-24. See pages 24, 27, 28 and 29 for stories on saturdays top College football games. By the associated press Boston a Rookie Phil Plantier hit two Home runs and Jack Clark and Bob Zupcic also connected As the Boston red sox charged to one half game behind Al East leading Toronto routing the new York Yankees. The red sox and Toronto each have 67 losses. Boston has gone 31-10 since falling 11v games behind the Blue jays on aug. 7. The red sox won their fourth in a Row and for the 14th time in 17 games. In september the red sox Are 15-4. The Yankees continued their slide losing for the 13th time in 15 games. New York has scored just three runs in its last four games. Joe Hesketh 11-4 reached a career High in victories. He pitched eight innings and gave up four hits including a Solo Homer by Steve sax. In other games saturday athletics 4, Blue jays 0 Oakland Calif. A Willie Wilson a two out two run double in the eighth inning broke up a scoreless Duel Between Mike Moore and Jimmy key leading Oakland Over slumping Toronto. The Al East leading Blue jays lost for the fifth time in six games and had their Edge Cut to one half game by second place Boston. Toronto had played four straight extra inning games one Short of the major league record set in 1908 by Detroit. Moore 15-8 beat Toronto for the fourth straight time this season. He gave up four hits in eight innings and improved Al saturday to 8-2 against the Blue jays while pitching for  8, rangers 4 Minneapolis a Kevin Tapani won for the 14th time in 16 decisions and Minnesota extended its Al West Lead to seven games by beating Texas. Brian Harper doubled twice and drove in two runs and Kent Hrbek hit a two run Homer As the twins helped by second place Chicago a loss Cut their magic number for clinching the division to  4, White sox 3 Chicago a a throwing error by Pitcher Melido Perez allowed Dave Winfield to score from first base in the eighth inning As California beat  10, orioles 1 Cleveland a Albert Belle drove in five runs with a Home run and a bases loaded double and Greg Swindell pitched Cleveland Over  5, tigers 2 Detroit a Willie Randolph drove in three runs with three hits and Milwaukee sent Detroit to its fifth straight loss despite Cecil fielders major league leading 43rd Home  4, royals 1 Seattle a Dave Fleming pitched five shutout innings in his first major league Start to Lead Seattle Over Kansas City. Dodgers nip braves in 9th, regain Lead inside sports big play puts rockets past sabers a Page 24 saints Blank Volkes go 4-0 a Page 29 Aba olympic list has no surprises a Page 31 Stich pulls Germany even with . A Page 31 by the associated press los Angeles a Mitch Webster hit a game tying single in the eighth inning and Juan Samuel hit a game winning triple in the ninth saturday night As los Angeles beat Atlanta 2-1 and moved Back into first place in the no West. In the ninth Kal Daniels singled with one out off Mike Stanton 3-4and Samuel hit a 1-0 pitch to right Center Field scoring Daniels from first As right fielder David Justice  Cut the Ball off in the Gap. In other games saturday no saturday pirates 7, Phillies 0 Pittsburgh a the pirates clinched a tie for the no East title with Zane Smiths  5, cardinals 3 new York a Howard Johnson hit his league leading 36th Home run and tied a club record for Bis in a season. Johnson drove in two runs to raise his league leading rib total to 108, tying Darryl Strawberry a club record set last year reds 4, astros 1 Houston a Scott Scudder h Houston to three hits through 6vi innit and Chris Sabo drove in two  3, giants 2 san Diego a Greg Harris 7-5 g up one run five hits in 6?4 innings and Roberts had four hits and scored iwo Rucus expos cancelled Montreal a the Montreal Chic game was cancelled because of safety c Cerns at olympic stadium