European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 30, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 b the stars and stripes saturday May 30, 1992bosox capture Anaheim sweep from wire reports Anaheim Calif. A As the California Angels have watched their record sink to the wrong Side of .500, Mark Langston has been one of the few people Able to slow the trend. He was the winning Pitcher in the Only two games the Angels had won in their past 11 before thursday night. But his Strong performance did no to save them in a 2-1 loss to Boston in front of 23,843 at Anaheim stadium. The Angels who Are fifth in the american league West lost for the eighth time in nine games a a the 12th in their past 15 a and fell five games below .500 for the first time this season. They have lost five of six since the May 21 bus Accident in which manager Buck Rodgers and 12 others were injured. Boston starter Joe Hesketh 1-2 earned his first Victory and became the ninth left handed starter of 10 faced to defeat the Angels. He allowed one run on six hits Over seven innings. Jeff Reardon pitched the ninth to earn the 12th save of the season and the 339th of his career two shy of Rollie fingers major league record. Langston 5-2 had won his past five decisions not losing since opening night when he gave up seven runs in three plus innings. Since then he has found his stride. In his past four starts before facing Boston he had allowed no More than two runs and pitched at least seven innings each time. This time Langstone a presence on the Mound Wasny to enough. He pitched a Complete game gave up two runs and eight hits struck out seven arts walked three. Boston took a 1-0 Lead in the first inning As Jody Reed led off the game with a double took third on a groundnut and scored on Jack Clarks sacrifice Fly. The Angels put runners on first and third with two out in the first but stranded them when Hubie Brooks went Down swinging and Gary Gaetti flick to right. The Angels tied the score in the second 1-1, when Mike Fitzgerald singled to drive in Rene Gonzales who doubled and took third on a groundnut. Fitzgerald reached third on Catcher Tony penal a throwing error on his steal of second but Luis Polonia popped to Short stranding him. Langston did no to encounter any More trouble until the fourth when he had american league runners on first and third with two out but squelched the threat by striking out Tim Naehring. He Wasny table to hold the red sox off in the fifth though. Luis Rivera led off with a single to right. Von Hayes charged the Ball then seemed to realize he had misjudged it and pulled Back As it bounced. Rivera took second on a single by Reed then scored on Mike Green Wells single to Center. Reed was Safe at third on the play but Langston held the Lead to 2-1 by striking out Tom Brunansky and retiring Jack Clark on a Fly to left. He squelched the red sox again in the sixth when the red sox put runners on second and third with one out after Bob Zupcic singled and Naehring doubled. But Langston struck out Rivera looking and got Pena on a grounder to third. Langston held Boston in Check but the Angels had trouble catching them. Reed stole one Opportunity with two outs in the fifth when he scrambled Back from second base to make an Over the Shoul Der catch in shallow right Field leaving Gary Disarcina on second. In other games thursday rangers 4, White sox 2 Arlington Texas Bobby Witt allowed three hits in eight innings As Texas beat Chicago and moved into first place for the first time since the opening week of the season. Texas won its sixth straight All at Home and moved one half game ahead of Idle Oakland in the Al West. The rangers lost 13 of their first 18 at Home this season. Witt 5-4 allowed two runs struck out seven and walked two. Jeff Russell pitched a perfect ninth for his 13th save in 17 chances. Jack Mcdowell 7-3 lost his third consecutive Start. Royals 5, tigers 1 Detroit a Kevin Mcreynolds and Wally Joyner homered As Kansas City stopped a five game losing Streak. Mark Gubicza 5-3rusty Meacham and Jeff Montgomery combined for a three hitter. Gubicza 5-1 in his last seven starts gave up two hits in 6% innings struck out eight and walked four. Mark Leiter 3-2making his fifth Start after joining the rotation on May 12, gave up four runs and eight hits in six innings. Giants Mike Felder slides under cubs Jose Vizcaino in Chicago a win , cubs handcuff giants 5-0 Chicago up it s May forever. Mike Morgan can Only Hope Morgan hurled a four hitter Over eight innings thursday to finish the month unbeaten in six starts leading the Chicago cubs to a 5-0 Victory Over the san Francisco giants in thursdays Only National league contest. A a let a Hope he stays that Way the rest of the season a cub manager Jim Lefebvre said. Morgan also hit an rib single while Ryne Sandberg and Mark Grace each hit Solo homers for the cubs. Morgan 5-2, won his third straight Start despite walking seven. He struck out six. The right hander who signed As a free agent went 5-National league 0 in May with a 2.32 Era in six starts giving up 11 earned runs in 42% innings. It was another Quality Start for cub pitching. In the last 21 games Chicago a starting rotation has had 16 Quality starts. Bob Scanlan started the ninth striking out two of three batters he faced but did not get a save. Dave Burba 2-6 took the loss allowing seven hits in 3% innings. It was his second Short Outing. Burba lasted Only 2% innings in his last Start. The cubs opened a 3-0 Lead in the fourth. Grace singled reached third on Sandberg a base hit to left and scored on Andre Dawson a sacrifice Fly. Derrick May then reached on a fielders Choice forcing Sandberg and advanced on Joe Girardio a single. Doug strange lined a single up the Middle scoring May to make it 20. Morgan then poked a single to right driving in Girardi and chasing Burba. Grace hit his fourth Homer this season off reliever Rod Beck to Lead off the cubs eighth opening a 5-0 Lead. Grace went 2 for 4, extending his hitting Streak to 11 games. In that stretch he a batting .386, going 17 for 44.titans Nevin Heads All America squad by Tom Vint Omaha neb. A Cal state Ful Lerton third baseman Phil Nevin was named baseball America College player of the year thursday to headline the National publications annual All America squad. The Junior hit .390, had 20 homers and 75 Bis and helped his fifth ranked team earn a trip to the College world series beginning Friday in Omaha. His coach Augie Garrido said Nevin did the Little things that turned his season to Success. Quot during his three years Here he Learned How to improve his game both mentally and  Garrido said. Nevin said he had talked with the Houston astros who have the no. 1 pick in mondays draft. Quot it would be quite an Honor to be the first pick a he said. Quot one of my goals in life has been to play major Leais be baseball. K a a ii it s the astros yes that would be Nice because that would be As the first  Nevin moved from shortstop to third base this season and also played football for the titans earning All big West conference first team honors As a freshman placekicker. He also punted. Nevin led the fifth ranked titans in seven offensive categories and was named big West baseball player of the year. Nevin is one of seven first team All americans to be playing in the College world series. He is joined by Oklahoma second baseman Brian Eldridge Texas outfielder Calvin Murray California designated hitter Troy Penix and pitches Patrick Ahearne of Pepperdine Jeff a1 Kire of Miami and Darren Dreifort of Wichita state. Other first team members Are Jason Varitek Catcher Georgia tech Doug Hecker first base Tennessee Craig Wilson shortstop Kansas state Jeffrey Hammonds outfielder Stanford Chac Mcconnell outfielder Creighton Anc pitchers Lloyd Peever Louisiana state and Mike Romano Tulane