European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 31, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 30 b the stars and stripes sunday May 31, 1992 american league padres nip cards in 9th National league cardinals Ozzie Smith leaps Over padres Darrin Jackson after making tag the at second in first inning Friday night. Jackson was trying to Advance on a fielders Choice. Twins drub tigers with 8-run 4th by United press International Minneapolis despite contract problems Kirby Puckett a mind is on baseball. And that takes a Load off the minds of Minnesota twins fans. In the contest Between Puckett and his employers there s no doubt whose Side the Minnesota fans Are on. Puckett got his biggest cheers since game 6 of 1991 world series Friday night hitting a grand slam to Lead the twins to a 17-5 rout of the Detroit tigers. Puckett s first career slam highlighted an eight run fourth inning which also saw Chili Davis break out of a Homer drought with a two run shot. A pm pretty focused and i done to let that off the Field stuff bother me Quot Puckett said. A i have an agent to handle that and him and twins general manager Andy Macphail can talk. My Job is to play Ball. Ill take care of that i figure if 1 go out and play in be done All i can  a when you think about the Minnesota twins you think about Kirby Puckett Quot said Davis who broke a 60-at-Bat Homer drought with a two run blast during the twins big fourth inning. Davis drove in three runs and Shane Mack Kent Hrbek and Jeff Reboulet each drove in two to Lead Minnesota a 16-hit attack the most runs the twins have scored in almost nine years. In other games Friday Blue jays 3, White sox 0 Toronto Roberto Alomar s Solo Homer broke a scoreless game in the eighth and Juan Guzman Duane Ward and Tom 1 Lenke combined on a four hitter. Brewers 8, Yankees 3 Milwaukee . Surhoff hit his first Home run since Early april a three run shot. Surhoff previous Homer this season was a game winning grand slam april 8 against Minnesota. Rangers 5, royals 3 Kansas City to. A Dean Palmer hit a two run Homer in the ninth inning to make Kevin Brown the first Eigle game Winner in the major leagues and give the rangers their seventh straight Triumph. Indians 14, Angels 2 Anaheim Calif. Albert Belle drilled two Home runs to join Carlos Baerga Sandy Alomar and Kenny Lofton in driving in three runs apiece. The 18-hit barrage led the indians Tii their fourth straight Victory while the slumping Angels have dropped five in a Row and 9 of 10, athletics 5, orioles 3 Oakland a Jose Canseco and Mark Mcgwire each slugged homers and Lance Blankenship added two rib to help Oakland improve to 4-0 against Baltimore this season. Mcgwire belted his major league leading 18th Homer to Lead off the eighth for the a a. Mariners 7, red sox 3 Seattle a Dave Valle Hom ered and Tino Martinez hit a two run double to Lead the mariners to their fifth win in seven games. By United press International St. Louis a Rookie Duncan Osborne should have waited until after Friday nights game to get excited. Osborne who was in double a last season pitched 8y3 innings and retired 24 straight batters after allowing two singles in the first inning. But Tony Gwynn hit a ground Rule double in the ninth inning to spark a two run rally helping the san Diego padres win their third consecutive game in their last at Bat a 2-1 Victory Over the St. Louis cardinals. A i was a Little too pumped up out there in the ninth a Osborne said. A i got behind the first two hitters. I was excited Tony Gwynn is a hitter. You done to often get him out. He hits everything. I kind of Hung the pitch up there and he hit  a you just go there hacking a Gwynn said. A Osborne was around the plate All night throwing strikes. He pitched a great game. You just have to get a hit in that  Lee Smith who leads the no with 14 saves relieved Osborne and Gary Sheffield hit the first pitch into right Field for an rib single to tie the score 1-1. Mcgriff followed with a run scoring double for a 2-1 Lead. Smith fell to 1-2 while Osborne received a big league lesson. A a that a three games in a Row we be won now in the ninth a said san Diego manager Greg Riddoch a it was a great game in a just glad we were on the winning  Bruce Hurst 4-4, gave up one run on eight hits and walked none while striking out seven Over eight innings. Randy Myers struck out the Side in the ninth for his 13th save. In other games Friday dodgers 1, cubs 0 Chicago a Ramon Martinez out dulled Frank Castillo hurling a three hitter for his first shutout of the season. The dodgers scored the Only run in the ninth against Castillo 3-4, when Todd Benzinger scored Todd Goodwin with a sacrifice Fly to shallow Center. Martinez 3-1, struck out four and walked one in his 10th Start. It was his first shutout since july 25 when he blanked Philadelphia 5-0, and first Complete game since july 30 when he went the distance in a 3-1 win against new York. Pirates 13, giants 3 Pittsburgh a Jose Lind drove in three runs and reliever Bob Patterson smacked a three run double helping Vince Palacios become the first Pittsburgh starter to win since May 9 and snap a five game pirates losing Streak. Palacios 3-0, allowed two runs on four hits in six innings for his first Victory As a starter. Patterson pitched three innings by Tom Vint Omaha neb. Apr Miami coach Ron Fraser feels the hottest hitting team usually wins in the College world series. If that a the Case the hurricanes could be in trouble in their next game. Top seeded Miami 54-8 woke up slowly in its 4-3, 13-inning first round win Over no. 8 seed California on Friday. But no. 4 Fullerton state 43-15 pounded out 15 hits including a grand slam and two rib singles by All american Paul Nevin to drop no. 5 Florida state 7-2 in the Nightcap. Miami meets Fullerton on sunday following an elimination game Between California 36-27 and Florida state 48-20. In bracket two games saturday no. 2 Wichita state 56-9 was to meet no 7 Pepperdine 44-11-1 and no 3 Texas 46-16 was to meet no. 6 Oklahoma 4222. A anything can happen in the first game Quot i Raser said. A we were very Fortu for his first save of the season and Pittsburgh a first save since May 14. The pirates have won just two of their last 13 games. Reds 3, expos 2,11 innings Cincinnati Barry Larking a fourth hit of the game scored Billy Hatcher from second base with two outs in the 11th inning running Cincinnati a winning Streak to five. Pinch hitter Hatcher Drew a Mcadoff walk from Bill Sampen 0-2, in the 11th, and moved to second on a groundnut. After Dave Martinez walked Larkin lined a two out single for his second rib of the game. Scott Bankhead 5-1, pitched the 11th for the Victory. Braves 5, mets 1 new York a John Smoltz came one out from throwing the third Consec Nate to come Back and come out on top of this  All american designated hitter Troy Penix hit a three run Homer his 22nd of the season to help California to a 3-0 Lead in the sixth inning of the tournament opener. Kevin Digiacomo broke up Mike gathers shutout bid with a two run Homer in the Bottom of the eighth. Then Johnathen Smith doubled Home Gino Dimare with the game tying run in the Bottom of the ninth. Relievers Jon Zuber 6-4 of Cal and Gus Gandarillas 8-1 of Miami then kept the door shut until the hurricanes loaded the bases in the 13th to set up Charles Johnson a game winning sacrifice. A it was a very Lough loss Quot Cal coach Bob Milano said. A whoever would have lost that game it was going to he Tough utile shutout against the mets. Smoltz 5-4, who struck out a franchise record tying 15 batters sunday against Montreal struck out Only three mets. Terry Pendleton and Sid Bream each contributed a Homer and two Bis to hand the mets their third straight loss. They had been shut out by Cincinnati in the two previous games and had a 27-inning scoreless Streak before Randolph a double. The mets had gone 35 innings at Home without a run. Phillies 2, astros 1,12 innings Houston a Lenny Dystra a two out double in the 12th inning scored Ruben Amaro from first base. Amaro singled with two outs off reliever a1 Osuna 3-3, who gave up two hits in his Only inning Barry Jones 2-2, worked the final two innings allowing one hit and walking two Houston left 10 runners on base six in scoring position. On  Florida slate coach Mike Martin feels the same Way about coming Back in the losers bracket after his club was pounded by Nevin and Fullerton. A a we re just going to go out there against California and play As hard As we can a Martin said. A coming out the losers bracket is going to be very very  Nevin who was named baseball America player of the year and first team All american third baseman on thursday showed Why he is projected to be the top pick in mondays major league draft. He singled Home Chris Powell in the fifth and sliced a grand slam off reliever John Nedeau in the sixth. Nevin singled Home Powell again in the eighth after Powell collected his third hit a double. Nevin s six Bis was one shy of the College world series single game record set by arizonans Carl Thomas in 1954 and tied by Arizona states Stan Holmes in 1981. Miami Fullerton state win openers College world series