European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 6, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Braves win dodgers lose Atlanta 5 Houston 2 Atlanta a if 21-year-old Steve Avery Felt any Pennant race pressure it sure did no to show. Avery pitched with the poise of a Veteran Friday night As the Atlanta braves began the final weekend with a 5-2 Victory Over the Houston astros for their seventh straight Victory. The braves took a one game Lead Over the dodgers with two games to play in the no West when los Angeles lost later at san Francisco. A we had to get off to a Good Start and we have a Avery said. A it was a Little Tough in the first few innings. Everyone was pumped up. Once we got on the Board Early i settled Down a  Avery 13-8ahead 3-0 after three in by Ino rings held Houston witless until Luis Gonzalez doubled with two outs in the seventh. Avery took a two hitter and a 51 Lead into the ninth but Ken Caminiti led off the inning with his 13th Home run and Alejandro Pena relieved. Pena closed for his 15th save making him 11 for 11 in converting save chances since being traded from the new York mets to Atlanta. A crowd of 45,815, the largest of the season in Atlanta rooted on the braves All night with chants cheers and the now famous Tomahawk chop. A a it a fun. We enjoy it As much As they do a Avery said. A i wanted to finish it just to be out there when the fans went  Avery 3-11 As a Rookie last year won his fifth consecutive decision. He retired 18 straight batters before walking Javier Ortiz with two outs in the seventh and Gonzalez followed with a double. Avery escaped the Jam by retiring Ani Adujar Cedeno on a weak grounder. The astros did manage to break through against Avery in the eighth when Casey can a a Daele led off with a Steve Avery single and Pinch hitter Mike Simons walked. Steve Finley bounced into a Force play sending can Daele to third and Craig Biggio grounded into an rib Force out. Avery struck out five and walked three. The braves who hold a 12-4 series Edge Over Houston this season beat the astros for the eighth straight time. Terry Pendelton leading the  hitting entering the game at .319, 22nd Nomer in the fifth to give the braves Agu it hit e in his hurricanes blow away okla. St. Auburn Falls v the stars and stripes october 6,1991 Page 24 a 4-0 Lead. He went 1 for 4 and dropped a Point. The braves got to Rookie Jeff Juden 02 for a pair of runs in the second inning on a sacrifice Fly by Greg Olson and Lonnie Smiths two out rib single. Ron Gant got the rally started with a the dodgers watch the braves win in Atlanta on the scoreboard screen during batting single and his 34th stolen base. Practice before Friday nights game against giants at candlestick Park. In other major league games from wire reports Todd Stottlemyre selected earlier As a Al playoff starter pitched a Strong game for five plus innings As the Toronto Blue jays beat the Minnesota twins 4-1 Friday night at Minneapolis. Stottlemyre 15-8toronto a no. 4 playoff starter against Minnesota is 2-0 with a 0.96 Era in his last three starts. He allowed six hits and struck out five. Dante Bichette a Homer lifted Milwaukee Over Boston 3-2 at Fenway Park. At Seattle the mariners beat the White sox 6-4 to Clinch the first winning season in their 15-year history. Mike Stanley a single off right fielder Jose Canseco a Glove in the ninth enabled Texas to Down visiting Oakland 43 and move into third place in the Al West. In other Al games new York nipped hosting Cleveland 3-2, California beat visiting Kansas City 6-2, and Mickey Tettleton s 14th inning Homer won for Detroit 4-2 at  a a in the National league Doug dra Bek prepared for his Start in game 1 of the playoffs by pitching five shutout innings. But visiting Montreal rallied to beat Pittsburgh 3-1 on Spike Owens two run Homer in the ninth. In other no games Philadelphia nipped visiting new York 5-4 in the 10th on Dale Murphy a slow grounder with the bases loaded the padres beat Cincinnati 3-2 at san Diego and St. Louis at Chicago was rained out. San Francisco 4 los Angeles 1 san Francisco a after stumbling when they knew they could not afford it the los Angeles dodgers were left looking for help to get Back into the no West  dodgers knowing they needed to win to stay even with Atlanta in the no West race instead lost 4-1 Friday night to the san Francisco giants falling one game behind the braves with two games to play. A for the first time this season we re in a position where we need help from another team a said dodgers Catcher Mike Scioscia. A now we need help from Houston. But its academic if we done to  first inning Home runs by will Clark and Matt Williams off Ramon Martinez 17-13 put the dodgers in a Hole from which they could not recover As they fell into second place for the first time since sept. 20. Kevin Bass homered in the seventh to Cap the giants seventh Victory in nine games Over the dodgers. Martinez who gave up three runs and eight hits in 5v5 innings is 0-8 in Road games since the All Star break. The dodgers meanwhile fell to 38-41 away from Home this season. During pre game batting practice the dodgers had no Choice but to watch candlestick Parks scoreboard to screen in Center Field which showed Atlanta beating Houston 5-2 for its seventh straight Victory. A we thought the first game of the series was the most important one a said dodgers infielder Lenny Harris. A we watched the braves win. We knew we had to win. We just did no to  the giants fans greeted the dodgers with Lusty Boos and repeatedly broke into choruses of a beat . Beat .�?� a we came in Here thinking we had to win three games but the fans were irrelevant a said dodgers Center fielder Brett Butler. A the chanting was Nice. You want to play in that kind of  Bud Black 12-16 held los Angeles to one rur and seven hits in six innings and Jeff Brantley pitched three innings and struck out six for his 15th save. A a everybody a fired up but its not a vengeful thing like we re trying to stick it to the dodgers a Brantley said. A we stunk All year. Its just Nice to have something positive to think about and take into next  Brantley made the games biggest pitches striking out Pinch hitter Chris Gwynn and a looking Darryl Strawberry with two runners on base to end the seventh. The giants meanwhile came out swinging against Martinez who fell to 1-4 against san Francisco this season. Willie Mcgee singled with one out and Clark followed with a slicing line drive that barely cleared the Fence in left Field for an opposite Field Homer his 29th this season. One out later Williams hit a High fastball from Martinez deep into the left Field bleachers for his 34tn Homer. Inside sports today a to game matchup a Paget a Frankfurt rips a town prep football a Page 21 Detmer Brigham Young win big _ Page 23 Bird Mchale May miss celts opener a Page 23