European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 26, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Dodgers pad Lead to 2 the stars and stripes ports september 26, 1991 b Page 24 san Diego apr Mike Morgan and the dodgers fattened up on the san Diego padres on tuesday night As los Angeles won 5-2 to take a two game Lead Over Atlanta in the no West. The dodgers who have a two game margin Over the braves for the first time since aug. 22, eliminated the padres from the division Raee. The dodgers beat san Diego for the fourth straight time and for the seventh time in their last eight games. Atlanta was rained out at Home against Cincinnati on tuesday night and was scheduled for a doubleheader against the reds on wednesday. Morgan 14-9who has a career High for victories allowed six hits in winning his Dion Sanders Speaks about playing simultaneously for the Falcons and to play 2 sports for rest of no West race Atlanta apr to knows baseball football and rehab. Deion had better know airline schedules. In this weird and wondrous season for the Atlanta braves the weirdest news yet came tuesday Deion Sanders who left the team eight weeks ago to resume his nil career will play both sports for the duration of the no West Pennant Raee. To Jackson of course became the most successful two sport athlete of his generation with the Kansas City royals and the los Angeles raiders. But Jackson never played two spoils in a 36-hour Span. Sanders from All indications plans to do just that this weekend running Back punts for the Falcons in Atlanta sunday afternoon running Over travellers at Mansfield Airport sunday night and then running the bases for the braves in Cincinnati monday night. Atlanta a game against the reds was rained out tuesday night and the braves Trail the first place los Angeles dodgers by 2 games. Quot Sanders hit just .193 in his 49 games w Ith Atlanta this season with four homers and 13 runs batted in. But he was 9-for-12 steal ing bases. With Otis Nixon the major league s stolen base Leader suspended for a drug violation the braves need All the Speed they can get. Braves general manager John Schuer Holz at a news conference tuesday said Sanders would be in uniform for nine of the braves final 12 games. He said Sanders would miss this weekend s three game series in Houston. Quot we had talked with other clubs trying to Aei Viire a Speed Guy a Schuerholz said. Quot we decided if Deion wanted to do it As he said he did we d go ahead and give him the Opportunity. "1 spoke to Falcons president Taylor Smith As a Courtesy. I called to Tell him. And he just said he appreciated our Sanders said he was wished Well by his football teammates. Quot they told me to go for it a he said. I be said he does not expect to be fined by the Falcons. Quot no. I Don t. I Haven t dime anything wrong. I m going to be at practice meetings and the game. What i do on my own time is my own business a Sanders said. Other no games on Page 22 fourth consecutive game. He struck out six and walked two in eight plus innings and even drove in a run. John Candelaria struck out Fred Mcgriff with a Man on in the the ninth and Roger Mcdowell finished for his ninth save getting Benito Santiago on a game ending double play. Eddie Murray had two hits for the dodgers including a single leading off the two run second inning. He took second on Kal Daniels groundnut. Third when Mike Scioscia singled just beyond the reach of second baseman Tim Teufel and scored on Ricky Bones wild pitch. Juan Samuel singled on the next pitch moving Scioscia to third. Scioscia scored on Mike Sharperson a groundnut. Bones 4-5 walked Morgan with two outs in the fourth and Brett Butler doubled for a 3-0 Lead. Bones allowed three runs and five hits in 3 it innings. Morgan was going for his second shutout Over the padres this season but allowed two runs on two hits in the fifth. Teufel and Thomas Howard both singled and stole second with Teufel scoring on Howard s hit and Howard scoring on Bip Roberts groundnut. Samuel walked in the sixth took third on Sharperson s double and scored on Morgan s groundnut. The dodgers got another run in the seventh on Darryl Strawberry s double and Scioscia s rib grounder. Borders Homer in 10th boosts jays by Angels Borders by Ken Peters Anaheim Calif. A the Toronto Blue jays Pat Borders has had just four hits in the last 10 Days but they Veall been out of the Park. And his most important Homer was his latest a three run shot in the 10th inning that gave the Blue jays a 3-0 Victory Over California tuesday night and increased Toronto Sal East Lead to two games. The second place Boston red sox were rained out at Baltimore and were scheduled to play a doubleheader against the orioles wednesday. Borders Homer Only his fifth of the season ended what had been an outstanding display of pitching by the Angels Jim Abbott 17-10 and Toronto starter Todd Stottlemyre and reliever David Wells 1510. Abbott struck out a career High 13 and allowed just four hits one through the first eight innings and walked Stottlemyre yielded five hits walked two and struck out three before Wells came on with one out and one on in the eighth. Wells allowed one hit struck out two and also snuffed what could have been an Angel threat in the eighth picking the fast Luis Polonia off first immediately after entering the game. A a Fhate a got to be a big emotional boost for us Quot Borders said. Quot it s Good that we re up by two and Boston has to play two Abbott had been masterful with his Speed placement and variety until he threw Borders a fastball that strayed out Over the plate. A Quot he had been throwing me a lot of sliders and fastballs away a Borders said. Quot i thought he might come inside with a fastball in that situation and he got it out Over the plate a Quot asked Why he thinks he son a Homer Binge now after having just one All the rest of the season. Borders Shook his head thought for a moment and said a done to Candy Maldonado led off the 10th with single and John Olerud sacrificed him second. Abbott walked Pat Tabler intentionally and then Borders hit the first pitch from Abbott deep into the left Field seats i a toothed Al games on Page 22 Quot lies decent on the inside pitch and on that pitch he really turned on it and hit it out of the Park Quot said Abbott who had won eight of his last nine starts. California manager Buck Rodgers complimented Abbott then said of Stottlemyre a the was t up against the �?T27 Yankees tonight. We had to move some Guys around we had a few Guys on the shelf and it was t exactly the lineup you a elect to put out there against Stottlemyre. But that does no to mean he did no to pitch Good he Abbott got in a Jam in the opening inning when he hit Toronto a second Batter Roberto Alomar. After Joe Carter struck out Kelly Gruber singled then Alomar stole third. Abbott however got Maldonado on a grounder to end the threat. In the fourth. Gruber made it to second on a two base throwing error by third baseman Gary Gaetti then took third on Maldonado a Fly to deep Center. But Olerud tried out to keep the game scoreless. The Angels moved a runner around to third in the next inning As Gaetti led off with a single then advanced on grounders to second by Max Venable and Dick Schofield. But Stottlemyre put the lid on that inning by getting Ron Tingley on still another grounder to second. In the seventh Venable singled with two out then went to third on Schofield shit and run single. Once again Stottlemyre got Tingley to end the threat this time on a Fly to Center. The Low scoring game came on the night following a 19-run, 26-hit contest won by the Angels 10-9. With one More game against California in 1991, the Blue jays Are 3-5 against the Angels. Toronto has lost each of the past two season series to the Angels 5-7.inside sports prep pickings . Back in playoffs a Page 21 a. School is winning est . Prep team a Page 21 pirates still trying to re sign Bonilla a Page 22 a Boner usher scores 10th-round to a Page 23
