European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 9, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday May 9, 1992 the stars and stripes b Page 25winfield s slam Caps jays rally by the associated press Seattle a the Toronto Blue jays signed Dave Winfield As a free agent for his Home runs and leadership. He provided both thursday night. A the big Man got a hanging Slider a a Blue Jay manager Cito Gaston said after Winfields 10th career grand slam gave Toronto an 8-7 Victory Over the Seattle mariners. A a he a been doing it just like this for 18 or 19 years a Mariner Star Ken Griffey or. Said. Trailing 6-0 after three innings 7-1 after five and 7-3 going into the ninth i the Blue jays rallied for five runs in the ninth to increase their winning Streak to five games. The Victory kept Toronto in sole Possession of first place in the Al East. At 40, in his 20th big league season and with his fourth Maior league club Winfield won the Battle and the War against Seattle a stopper Mike schooler. A what usually happens in a situation like that is the better competitor wins a Gaston said. A a in a not saying Mike schooler is not a Good competitor. Its just that Dave Winfield is a great  a it was timely a Winfield said. A you go up there thinking about hitting a grand slam a lot but rarely does it happen. This was a tremendous  a besides hitting grand slam Home runs Dave is such a Good example on this club a Gaston said. A a he a such a positive person. He just keeps these Guys  Seattle suffered its eighth loss in nine games. It might have been the mariners most demoralizing defeat of the season. A a it a like we re snakebite Mariner manager Bill Plummer said. A a it a a Tough loss. They re All Tough. This one is just a Little  the Blue Jay ninth was a Nightmare for Plummer As his pitching staff let him Down again. Calvin Jones who replaced starter Erik Hanson in the seventh struck out Candy Maldonado to open the inning but Greg Myers doubled and Manuel Lee singled him Home. After Devon White was walked by Jones Plummer brought in schooler who got Roberto Alomar to Fly out for the second out. But schooler walked Joe Carter to Load the bases and then gave up a Homer to Winfield on a 2-2 pitch. It was Winfields sixth Homer of the season and 412th of his career. Schooler was one strike away from Victory twice. He was 0-2 on Carter and 0-2 on Winfield. Winfield swung and missed at schooler a first two pitches. He then stepped out of the batters Box and slammed his right Palm hard onto the top of his Bat Steve sax left shows his disagreement with a Call by hurling a water cooler thursday. Ting helmet. It was a gesture that did no to go unnoticed by the younger Blue jays. A a he a just such a great player a winning Pitcher Pat Hentgen 3-0 said. A when he was up there in the ninth you could just see the intensity in his eyes. A Winfield hit schooler a favorite pitch a Slider. A i just made a bad pitch a schooler said. A what else can you say a Hentgen pitched 396 innings of one hit Ball in Relief of Jack Morris for the Victory. Tom Henke pitched the ninth to get his fourth save. In other games thursday athletics 6, tigers 2 Oakland Calif. Bob Welch pitched seven shutout innings and Rickey Henderson ssh and Mark Mcgwire a 14th Homer runs helped Oakland beat Detroit. Welch 1-1the 1990 Al by Young award Winner who endured his first sub-.500 season last year when he was 12-13, walked one and struck out none in notching his first win of the season. He allowed five hits in his second Start since returning from the disabled list. Jeff Parrett came on in the eighth and was tagged for a two run Homer by Mark Carreon his third of the season. P be bucs get playoff revenge by the associated press last years National league playoff foes put on a playoff Caliper show at three Rivers stadium on thursday. Mike Stanton struck out Barry Bonds and Jose Lind with the bases loaded in the eighth inning helping the Atlanta braves beat the Pittsburgh pirates 4-2. Bonds looked at a third strike that he thought was High and Lind went Down on a half swing to end the inning. A there Isnit a tougher situation in baseball than that a Brave manager Bobby Cox said. A bases loaded one out and Bonds up. He went right after him. He was throwing some  Stanton came in after the pirates loaded the bases against Juan Berenguer with two hits and a hit batsman. He saved the game for Tom Glavine 5-1whose Streak of 20 straight shutout innings ended in the first when he gave up con National league Secu Tive singles to Jay Bell Andy Van Slyke and Lloyd Mcclendon. A what he Stanton did was huge and that May be an understatement a said Glavine who gave up six hits and two runs in seven innings. The braves who won the no Pennant last season by beating the pirates in seven games took a 3-1 Lead in the sixth on a Homer by Mark Lemke. The shot off Denny Neagle 1-1 was Only Neagles fifth Homer in 682 major league at bats. Bonds did no to Start against Atlanta because he was 3 for 20 in his career against Glavine. He Pinch hit in the eighth prompting Cox to bring in the left handed Stanton. The loss halted an eight game Home winning Streak for the pirates. In thursdays other night game Dennis Eckersley the a a fourth Pitcher got the final five outs for his major league leading 11th save. Frank Tanana 1-3who beat the a a last saturday when Welch made his 1992 debut was tagged for four runs in the  6, Yankees 0 Anaheim Calif. Julio Valera itched a five hitter for his first major eague shutout As California beat new York sweeping the two game series. Valera 2-1 struck out three and walked one in his sixth career Start and third since joining the Angels in a Deal that sent backup shortstop Dick Schofield to the new York mets on april 12. Scott Sanderson 2-2who pitched a one hitter Here last july 11, fell behind 30 when Mike Fitzgerald hit the right handers a first pitch of the second inning for his third Home  sox 7, red sox 6 Chicago a Donn pall Scott Radinsky and Bobby Thigpen pitched shutout Relief As Chicago rallied from a 6-0 deficit created by 10 walks in the first two innings to win its fifth straight game. Joey corals sacrifice Fly in the sixth drove Home the deciding run after Bostons Matt Young had squandered a Lead presented him by the wildness of Charlie Lough and Wilson Alvarez. Chicago pitchers allowed Only six hits but walked 15 batters. Pall la went 3vs innings allowing two hits and striking out four Radinsky went 1 is and Thigpen retired one Batter for his seventh save. Greg Harris fell to 2-2.orioles 5, twins 4 Baltimore a Joe Orsulak scored the winning run on a wild pitch by Rick Aguilera capping a four run ninth inning rally that lifted Baltimore past Minnesota. Aguilera a wild pitch the twins fourth of the game gave the orioles their eighth win in nine games and improved their Home record to 12-2. With the orioles trailing 4-1, Glenn Davis opened the ninth with a single and Randy Milligan doubled. David Sugui followed with an rib single and was replaced with Pinch runner Mark Mcle More. Sam Horn then hit a Pinch single scoring Milligan and Horn took second on the throw. Orsulak ran for Horn and Aguilera issued an intentional walk to Brady Anderson to Load the bases. Pinch hitter Chito Martinez drove in the tying run with a ground out to second. Storm Davis 2-2 pitched the ninth inning for the anoles who swept the two ame series and have won four in a Row rom the twins for the first time since 1983.indians 8, rangers 7 Arlington Texas a Rookie Kenny Lofton hit his first Maior league Home run a three run shot in the fifth inning As Cleveland beat Texas to Send the rangers to their fifth straight Home loss. With the score 4-4, Junior Ortiz delivered an rib single and Lofton hit loser Mike Campbells first pitch into the right Field stands. Trailing 8-4, the rangers got a run in the sixth on Brian Downing sri single and added two More in the seventh on a run scoring single by Kevin Reimer and Jack Daugherty s rib double. Rod Nichols 1-2 was the  6, Brewers 4 Kansas City to. Kevin Mcreynolds and Bob Melvin drove in two runs apiece and Winner Curt Young recovered from a shaky first inning As Kansas City beat Milwaukee to hand the Brewers their fifth straight loss. Young 1-1who spent his previous nine seasons with Oakland and was making his first Start in a year gave up three hits and two runs on his first seven pitches. But he lasted 5vi innings giving up 10 hits and three runs. Dan Plesac fell to 2-2.cubs 9, astros 2 Chicago a Sammy Sosa homered doubled and scored twice and Andre Dawson had a pair of doubles and a single As Chicago won its third straight. Sosa led off the first inning with his first Homer then doubled and scored in the second. Dawson doubled and scored in a four run first singled and scored in a three run fourth and doubled in the sixth leading to Chicago a ninth run. Houston a Ryan Bowen 0-4 gave up five runs on five hits in one plus innings raising his Era to 14.14 As a starter. Mike Morgan 2-2who allowed a pair of runs in the first inning won his second in a Row and pitched his first Complete game since last sept. 24. He gave up seven hits and struck out two. Houston is 3-8 in its last 11 games and is 1-7 on the  balks at minors Montreal a Montreal expo Catcher Gilberto Reyes who completed his drug rehabilitation program last weekend refused assignment to the minor leagues on thursday and elected to become a free agent. Reyes 28, was assigned to extended Spring training on sunday. He refused assignment to West Palm Beach of the class a Florida state league. A a in a finally out of Montreal Quot Reyes said. A the expos know in a a belter Catcher than a lot of catchers they have but they done to want to admit it because i was on