European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 25, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 26 the stars and stripes monday May 25, 1992 Oakland s Lance Blankenship docs a fancy Ballet step As he avoids a sliding Jack Clark and throws to first to Complete a double play against Boston saturday. Red sox won 5-1.bosox Boggs sizzles As temperatures soar Al sunday by the associated press Boston a Wade Boggs is heating up in the warmer weather. Boggs the live time Al batting Champion drove in a pair of runs with his third Homer in two games and a single As the Boston red sox beat Oakland 5-1 saturday and stopped the athletics four game winning Streak. John Dopson won for the first time since oct. 1, 1989, As the red sox won for the fourth time in five games. �?o1 survived the cold Spring and now the hotter the better a Boggs said after the temperature reached 91 for the second straight Day. A i hit the Ball the same Way when it was 40 degrees but now that its warmer they re going Boggs who hit his first two homers of the season and a double in Friday nights 5-3 loss to Oakland grounded an rib single off Mike Moore 5-3 in the second. Then he led off the fifth with a Home run about a dozen rows into the bleachers beyond the Boston bullpen in right Center a 442-Ldot drive. Boggs with the dub struggling was dropped from Lead off to third in the batting order two weeks ago by manager Butch Hobson. In 12 games since Boggs is batting .4 19 with three homers and five doubles among 18 hits. He a also driven in nine runs. A a in a really not any More confident batting third because in a always confident a Boggs said. Dopson 1-1in his second Start since being sidelined with a right Elbow injury in 1090, allowed seven hits in eight innings struck out three and walked none. Jody Reed had three hits and to Iii Burks a two run double for the red sox. Oakland a Rickey Henderson broke Eddie Yostos Al record with his 1,730th Start As a Lead off hitter greeting Dopson with a double. In other games saturday Angels 6, orioles 2 Baltimore a California finally had something go right on its Road trip using a Strong pitching performance by Mark Langston to beat Baltimore. Langston 5-1 allowed four hits in seven innings and Lee Stevens and Gary Gael i homered to help the Angels snap their four game losing Streak. Rick Sutcliffe 5-4 left after giving up eight hits a six runs in 2-x innings. Amial saturday White sox 5, Blue jays 2 Chicago a Craig Grebeck scored one run and drove in another and reliever Scott Radinsky worked out of a seventh inning Jam leading Chicago past Toronto. The Blue jays committed five errors including three by third baseman Kelly Gruber but All of the White sox runs were earned. Starter Greg Hibbard 5-2 allowed four hits in 6ri innings but two were homers Dave Winfield hit his eighth and Candy Maldonado his 5, Yankees 4, 10 innings new York a Robin Yount hit a Solo Home run with two outs in the 10th inning and Milwaukee beat new York in the Yankees fourth straight extra inning game. The major league record for consecutive extra inning games is five set by Detroit in 1908. The Yankees beat California in 10 and 12 innings before losing to Milwaukee 10-9 Friday night in 14 innings. Younts third Home run of the season came against Shawn Hillegas 0-1 and was the fourth Homer of the game. Paul Molitor also connected for Milwaukee while Don Mattingly and Roberto Kelly homered for the Yankees. Bill Wegman 4-4 gave up eight hits in nine innings and Jesse Orosco got his first save since May 6, 1990.twins 6, tigers 5 Detroit a Shane Mack had three hits and scored three runs As the twins beat won a game delayed by rain three times for a total of 1 hour 28 minutes. Minnesota took a 5-3 Lead in the sixth off John Doherty 2-1 on Chuck Knoblauch sri groundnut and Kent Hrbek a sacrifice Fly. Brian Harper added an rib double in the eighth. Kevin Tapani 4-4 won his third consecutive decision allowing three runs and five hits in five innings and striking out 4, royals 2 Arlington Texas a Kevin Brown scattered eight hits for his third Complete game and Ivan Rodriguez capped a four run first inning with a two run Homer. Texas has won six of its last seven games. Brown struck out six and walked one while getting 14 s Darling 2-hits botox by the associated press Boston a Ron Darling pitched a two hitter for his first shutout since 1988 As the Oakland athletics beat the Boston red sox 4-0 sunday for their fifth Victory in six games. Darling making his first Boston appearance since the 1986 world series tossed his first Complete game since july 26, 1990, while pitching for the new York mets. It was the right handers uth career shutout and Only his 26th Complete game in 265 starts since 1983. Darling 4-2who pitched seven shutout innings when the mets evened the series in game 4 at Fenway Park in route to the championship six years ago struck out two and walked two As the athletics took two of three games from Boston. The a a ended their Road trip 6-5 after starting with three straight losses. The two hitter was the Best Effort of Darlings career. He pitched a three hitter against Cincinnati on May 8, 1988. His last shutout was on sept. 22, 1988. Oakland scored three runs in the first inning off loser Mike Gardiner 3-2. In another Early game sunday orioles 6, Angels 4 Baltimore a Brady Anderson and Cal Ripken each homered and drove in two runs As Baltimore ended californians Star crossed Road trip. California lost seven of nine games a and its manager a during the East coast swing. Manager Buck Rodgers was among 12 people injured i thursday when the team bus veered off the new Jersey Turnpike into a Grove of Trees. Rodgers underwent surgery on his fractured Elbow and knee sunday in California and is expected to be out for at least two months. Anderson led off the fifth inning against Chuck Finley 1-3 with his sixth Homer and one out later Ripken hit a Solo shot to give the orioles a 4-3 Lead a sixth inning sacrifice Fly by Mark Mclemore made it 5-3, and the Angels von Hayes hit a Solo Homer in the seventh his first rib since april 17
