European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 19, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday april 19, 1992 Page 26 b the stars and stripes sunday april 19, 1992 dodgers win on Strawberry or by the associated press los Angeles a Darryl Strawberry hit his second Home run of the game a two run shot with one out in the ninth inning that lifted the los Angeles dodgers to a 7-5 Victory Over the Atlanta braves. Strawberry who hit a three run Homer off Tom Glavine in the third inning won it when he connected on a 2-2 pitch from Alejandro Pena 0-1. Strawberry was 0 for 13 lifetime against Pena before hitting his third Home run of the season. Lenny Harris opened the ninth with a single and Todd Benzinger struck out. Strawberry followed with a High drive Over the right Field Fence giving him five Rols for the night. Roger Mcdowell 1-2 escaped a bases loaded Jam in the ninth when he got Deion Sanders leading the majors with a .444 average at that Point on a routine grounder to shortstop. In other games Friday giants 7, reds 3 san Francisco Rookie Catcher Jim Mcnamara hit his first major league Homer and drove in four runs and three san Francisco pitchers combined on a four hitter to beat Cincinnati. Mcnamara witless in his first four big league at bats went 3 for 4. He figured in All three scoring innings against Jose Rijo 0-3 and added a two run Homer in the eighth off Dwayne Henry. Bryan Hickerson 1-1 relieved starter Kelly Downs when the reds tied it with two runs in the sixth. Rod Beck who has pitched nine scoreless innings in Relief this season hurled three innings for his first  3, padres 1 Houston a Pete Harnisch stopped san Diego before leaving with one out remaining and also hit a two run double As Houston beat san Diego. Harnisch 1-2 gave up five hits struck out seven and walked one. He was lifted in the ninth after Tony Fernandez led off with a single and Fred Mcgriff Drew the padres Only walk with two outs. Doug Jones relieved and gave up an rib single to Benito Santiago but struck out Jerald Clark for his fourth save. Bruce Hurst 0-1 held the astros in Check until the third inning when Steve Finley homered on a 2-0 pitch with two out. Harnisch doubled in the seventh after an intentional  10, expos 2 Montreal a Eddie Murray hit a three run double and Bobby Bonilla and Charlie of Brien added two run doubles leading new York past Montreal. David Cone 1-1 gave up seven hits As the mets swept by Montreal in a three game series last weekend in new York bounced Back to beat Dennis Martinez 1-2. The expos lost their third in a Row. The mets broke open the game with four runs in the third inning. Murray tied for eighth place on the All time list with 15 grand slams hit his key double on a 3-1 pitch with two  7, Phillies 4 Pittsburgh Cecil Espy hitting .778, had a two run Pinch double and Andy Van Slyke batting .138, singled in the go ahead run in Pittsburgh a four run seventh inning As the pirates rallied to beat Philadelphia. The comeback made a Winner of Doug Drabek 2-1who allowed four runs and eight hits Over seven innings and had been out pitched by Phillies starter Terry Mulholland until the seventh. Kim Batiste Philadelphia a Rookie shortstop made four errors helping Pittsburgh take the Lead. The Victory was the pirates fourth in a Row Overall and fifth in six games this season in three Rivers  in St. Louis St. Louis a the Chicago St. Louis game was postponed because of  Krueger flips 1st career shutout by the associated press Chicago a it took left hander Bill Krueger 116 starts Over seven years in the major leagues before he finally pitched his first shutout. Krueger who has also played with Oakland los Angeles Milwaukee and Seattle during his seven year career struck out five and walked none for his first major league shutout As the Minnesota twins beat Chicago 7-0 Friday night. A a in a really excited about it a he said afterwards flashing a big Grin. A we Arentt going to dwell on it too much Are we a Krueger a 115 games without a shutout is the fourth highest total in Maior league history. Roy a a Popeye Mahaffey holds the major league record with 128 starts without a shutout. A1 Nipper ranks second with 124 and Roger Erickson is third with 117. Krueger who is 47-49 Over his career has pitched strongly in his two starts this season winning both. He signed a free agent contract with the twins last Jan. 28. Krueger attributes his Early Success this year to his pre season preparation. A i worked real hard in the off season a he said. Quot i did a lot of throwing. I came to Camp in Good shape. This year i was brought to Camp As a starting Pitcher and i think it was important in my preparation. I knew when i was going to  there was a consensus among the twins that Krueger pitched a near perfect game against the White sox. Quot he did a fabulous Job a twin manager Tom Kelly said. A i can to say any More than that. He pitched ahead of the count he got some strikes he got some ground Halls some double plays. He just pitched one of those games you dream  Krueger attributed his Success against the White sox to his fastball. A i had a fastball that i could move in on the eighties and away from the lefties and i moved the Ball in and out real Well Quot he said. In other games Friday orioles 8, tigers 0 Baltimore Rick Sutcliffe pitched a four hitter for his second straight shutout at Camden Yards and Randy Milligan drove in six runs including a grand slam leading Baltimore Over Detroit. In the season opener at the new Park Sutcliffe pitched a five hitter to beat Cleveland 2-0. All four games played at Oriole Park at Camden Yards have seen the loser shut out. Baltimore a Ben Mcdonald pitched a White sox Ozzie Guillen leaps for errant throw As twins Shane Mack steals second. Shutout in the third game at the new Park and Cleveland a Dave Otto and Rod Nichols combined to keep the orioles off the Board in the second game. No other Park in major league history has opened with four consecutive shutouts. Sutcliffe 2-1 walked two and struck out four in becoming the first Pitcher this season to toss two shutouts. It was the 18th shutout of his  11, Yankees 1 new York a Mark Whiten drove in five runs including one of four homers by Cleveland As the indians routed new York. After a 6-0 Start the Yankees have lost four straight games. Charles Nagy 2-1 pitched a six Hitler and benefited from the indians first four Home run game since aug. 4, 1990, when they also hit four Home runs at Yankee stadium. Albert Belle Carlos Baerga and Sandy Alomar also homered for the indians. Alomar had four of Cleveland a 15 hits. All four homers came off Scott Sanderson 2-1 Angels 8, royals 1 Kansas City to. Scott Lewis pitched two hit Ball for seven innings As California beat struggling Kansas City sending the royals to their 10th loss in 11 games. Lewis 1-0 no hit Kansas City for four innings before Kevin Mcreynolds hit his first Home run As a Royal leading off the fifth. Kansas City starter Mike Boddicker 02 lasted five innings giving up six runs on nine hits. Luis Polonia had three hits and three Bis for the Angels including a two run single in a five run  5, mariners 1 Milwaukee Bill Wegman pitched a five hitter and Darryl Hamilton drove in three runs leading Milwaukee past Seattle. Wegman 1-1 carried a shutout into the ninth inning but Kevin Mitchell led off with a double and moved to third on Harold Reynolds single. Edgar Martinez a grounder to Short scored Pinch run Ner Jeff Schaefer. Hamiltons two run triple off Erik Hanson 1-2 keyed a four run fifth to put Milwaukee ahead 5-0. Hanson gave up five runs and eight hits in 5v6  6, athletics 5 Arlington Texas a Kevin Brown won his third game in As Many starts scattering nine nits Over seven innings in Texas Victory Over Oakland. Juan Gonzalez and Dickie Thon each had two Bis for the rangers. Kenny Rogers pitched a a innings for his second save. With one out in the ninth Pinch hitter Carney Lansford doubled and continued to third on Gonzalez a error in Center Field but was left stranded when Rogers struck out Scott Brosius and retired Mike Bordick on a grounder. Brown gave up just two hits in the first five innings but the athletics got to him in the sixth thanks to Rickey Henderson a two out broken Bat come Backer. Brown had to Dodge Henderson a twirling splintered Bat and the Ball rolled to second base scoring Brosius. Lance Blankenship then drove in Henderson with a double Down the left Field line and scored on Jose Canseco a single to Center to pull Oakland to 4-3 Down. After Gonzalez a two run double in the Bottom of the sixth off reliever Gene Nelson made it 6-3, the athletics trimmed the Lead again with two unearned runs in the seventh when Thon made two errors at shortstop. Bordick had an rib sacrifice Fly and Henderson added a run scoring single but was thrown out by Ivan Rodriguez trying to steal second snuffing the rally. Rodriguez has thrown out 8 of 10 runners this year. Brown gave up five runs three of them earned while walking none and striking out four. Sixty six of his 99 pitches were strikes