European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 02, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 b the stars and stripes wednesday october 2, 1991 botox Edge Brewers go to 3v2 games out a Joe Carter of the Blue jays leaps to the Wall to. Snare shot against Angels. By the associated press Milwaukee a these Are Tough times for. The Boston red sox blowing big leads losing big games and falling behind big time in the Al East race. Finally something right happened for them monday night. They characteristically blew a big Lead but uncharacteristically came Back to beat the Milwaukee Brewers 9-8 for possibly their most important Victory of the season. A a it a been a Tough series and this game looked like it easily could have gone the other Way for us again and it would have been a Tough one to Swallow a Tom Brunansky said. A we battled Back. We had to win. Hopefully it will give us some sort of momentum for the last  the red sox who had blown a 4-0 Lead to lose 5-4 to Milwaukee on sunday squandered a 6-0 Lead monday night. But Jack Clarks two run Homer and Brunansky sri double rescued them in the seventh inning As they moved to 3>/2 games of the Toronto Blue jays who lost 2-1 to California. The red sox have six games to play the Blue jays five. Milwaukee went ahead 7-6 with four runs in the third and Greg Vaughn a three run Homer in the fifth. Clark struck Back with a Homer off Rookie Mike Igna siak 1-1 and Brunansky doubled in another run off Chuck Crim. Dennis lamp 6-3 let Milwaukee close within a run in the Bottom of the inning but Tony Fossas and Dan Petry held off the Brewers with Petry getting his first career save. The red sox who broke a four game losing Streak have All their games remaining at Fenway Park. Toronto has two at Home and three in Minneapolis. Pirates Greet mets skipper with 6-5 win by the associated press Pittsburgh a now Mike Cubbage knows How Bud Harrelson Felt most of the season. _ Jay Bell hit his first career grand slam in a six run second inning that carried the Pittsburgh pirates past the mets 6-5 monday night. It was new Yorkus second game under Cubbage who took Over As the interim manager when Bud Harrelson was fired. The mets beat the Phillies 4-3, in cub bagels debut on sunday. There was one positive note for new York at three Rivers stadium. Howard Johnson extended his no Home run Lead with his 38th. Johnson also stole two bases to raise his season total to 29. Steve Buechele added a two run Homer in the second As the pirates matched their 1990 Victory total of 95. Buecheler a Homer his fourth followed a walk to Barry Bonds. Doug Simons 23making his first major league Start after 41 Relief appearances then loaded the bases. Don Slaught doubled Jose Lind singled and Gary Rcd us walked ahead of Belles 16th Homer. Vicente Palacios made his first Start since May 17 and worked three scoreless innings. He was relieved by Neal Heaton who gave up Johnson a Homer and an rib single to Pinch hitter Mark Carreon. Rick Cerone homered off Roger Mason in the sixth. In other monday night games National league cardinals 11, expos 1 St. Louis a Mark Clark pitched 5v4 innings of scoreless Relief for his first major league Victory and Felix Jose drove in four runs As St. Louis clinched second place in the East. Geronimo Pena had three hits and scored three runs and Pedro Guerrero added three hits and two Bis for St. Louis. The second place finish is the highest for St. Louis since 1987, when the cardinals won the  6, cubs 5 Philadelphia a Wally Backmann a sacrifice Fly capped a three run ninth inning rally for Philadelphia. Chicago took a 5-3 Lead in the top of the ninth on Doug Dascenzo a sacrifice Fly off Mitch Williams and Andre Dawson sri single. In the Bottom of the inning the Phillies came Back off Paul Assenmacher 7-7 on rib singles by Wes Chamberlain and Jim Lindeman before Backmann a game winning Fly Ball. Wally Ritchie 1-2 relieved with one out in the ninth for the  2, giants 0 san Francisco a Chris Gardner pitched six hit Ball Over seven innings for is first major league Victory As Houston beat san Francisco before 5,379 fans a the american league Bostons final three games Are against the Brewers who won three of four at county stadium after dropping the first six to Boston this season. In other games monday night Angels 2, Blue jays 1 Toronto a Dave Winfield hit a two run double in the eighth and Mark Langston and Bryan Harvey combined on a three hitter. Langston 18-8 struck out six and walked three in Ivi innings. He trailed 1-0 entering the eighth on shortstop Dick Schofield a throwing error. Harvey struck out Roberto Alomar and Joe Carter to end the eighth and pitched a perfect ninth for his league leading 45th save. Key 16-12 allowed six hits in Ivi innings leaving after giving up one out singles to Luis Polonia and Schofield. Mike Timlin retired Gary Gaetti on a Fly but Winfield followed with a drive Over the head of left fielder Candy Maldonado. The crowd of 50,321 raised Toronto a total to 3,900,880, breaking the major league record the Blue jays set last year 3,885,284. Mariners 3-0, rangers 2-2 Arlington Texas a Nolan Ryan reached the 5,500-strikeout Mark in the doubleheader opener with six in six innings and Ken Griffey or. Became the youngest player to drive in 100 runs since a1 Kaline did it for Detroit in 1956. Seattle won its club record 79th game As Jay Buhner homered in the 11th off Wayne Rosenthal 1-4. Mike schooler 33 pitched two innings of witless Relief and Bill Swift pitched the 11th for his 16th save. Brian Downing and Monty Farris homered in the second game Brian Bohanon 4-3 allowed six hits in 7vs innings and Jeff Russell finished for his 30th save. Tigers 8, orioles 3 Detroit a Pete Incaviglia Mickey Tettleton and Lou Whitaker hit two run homers As Detroit closed its Home season with a six hitter by Mark Leifer 9-6the first Complete game of his career. The 11,824 fans gave a standing ovation in the seventh to Ernie Harwell beginning his final three innings on the radio from Tiger stadium. Harwell a career in Detroit is being ended after 32 years by the team and radio station War. Yankees 3, indians 0 Cleveland a Scott Sanderson 1610 became the Yankees first 16-game Winner since Rick Rhoden in 1987, but was forced from the game when de Tauben seems line drive dislocated a Finger. Randy Velarde hit a two run single in the sixth off Charles Nagy 10-14who pitched a seven hitter. Twins 8, White sox 3 Chicago a Randy Bush Pedro Munoz and Paul Sorrento homered for the Al West champions and Tom Edens 2-2 allowed one run and five hits in six innings. Alex Fernandez 9-13 gave up four runs and four hits in four innings. Royals 8, athletics 4 Kansas City to. A Mark Davis 62 allowed boo hits in six shutout innings and Kurt Stillwell hit a three run double in a six run second. Bob Welch 12-13 was pounded for six runs and six hits in two innings. Smallest crowd at candlestick Park since 1988. No puts Charlton s suspension on hold by Joe Kay a sports writer Cincinnati a Norm Charlton can pitch for the Cincinnati reds again and he a not sure Why. National league president Bill White reinstated Charlton from a week Long suspension monday so he a be available to play in a three game series against Atlanta. Charlton began serving the suspension sunday for purposely throwing at los Angeles Mike Scioscia. But White decided he should be available to pitch against Atlanta which trails los Angeles by one game in the no West. A with the close Pennant race in the Western division it is imperative that All teams play with their full complement of players in order to guarantee that the Competition is fair and balanced a White said. _ braves manager Bobby Cox saw it As another reason for changing the major leagues system of dealing with suspensions. A a it a not right a Cox said. A there has to be a system in baseball where this does no to happen. Give them a 24-hour Appeal and get on with it. This Way you can pick your  Charlton was suspended after admitting he hit Scioscia with a pitch sept. 9 for stealing signs and threatening to Hurt him again the next time he faced him. White handed Down the suspension one week later at the Start of a two game series in los Angeles. Charlton appealed putting the suspension on hold. He dropped his Appeal sunday with one week left in the season so the penalty  carry Over to next season. The reliever was stunned when informed White had reinstated him for the Atlanta series. A i done to really understand it a he said. A a there a this thing called the integrity of the game that Pete Rose got kicked out for. They said Pete Rose might ruin the integrity of the game. Yet Bill White suspends me against la. I drop the Appeal and he makes me play against Atlanta. I done to  a Charlton will go Back on suspension once the braves series ends. A my first responsibility is not to los Angeles. My first responsibility is to the reds a Charlton said. A when we got Down to the last seven games i made a decision to serve the suspension. I did no to want to take it into next  asked what he thought was Whites reasoning Charlton said a if i answer that ill be suspended for another week. I done to try to think for other people. But i done to understand Why he suspended me against los Angeles and forced me to play against